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Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain. Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. It is 1875, and...

National Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book * Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction * Winner of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters * Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award * Finalist for the American...

I 1914 ankommer den unge amerikanske enke Gerda Waud til København for at gå på Kunstakademiet. Her forelsker hun sig i sin laerer, maleren Einar Wegener. De gifter sig nogle år senere og slår sig ned i Nyhavn, hvor de indretter bolig og atelier. Et harmonisk aegteskab og et spaendende professionelt parløb tager sin begyndelse. Da Einar i 1925 accepterer at sidde model for Gerda, så hun kan faerdiggøre et billede af en kvinde, skubber de i faellesskab døren op for en tredje person.

Pasadena, David Ebershoff's sweeping, richly imagined novel, is set against the backdrop of Southern California during the first half of the twentieth century and charts its rapid transformation from frontier to suburb.