New PDF release: Anna K.: A Novel

The lives and loves of 3 sisters, Anna, Kathleen and Kitty intertwine throughout the fateful summer season of 2001.

Pressed to aid a chum in want, Anna, the oldest sister, for a expense paid by means of her brother-in-law, Doug, delivers to aid reconcile his failing marriage to her sister, Kathleen. yet Anna has difficulties, too. She's trapped in a loveless marriage with Alex Karin, a prosperous and politically formidable engineer and industrialist. whereas aiding fix her sister's fractured marriage, Anna meets a good-looking Marine officer, significant Varnay, falls in love and starts a tempestuous affair. She is aware the affair is natural folly, harmful and toxic yet she cannot deliver herself to prevent it, both. Then, the tragic occasions of Sept. 11 intrude and she or he realizes she needs to make an irrevocable selection among her family members and her lover.

Kitty, the youngest of the 3 sisters, as soon as in love with significant Varnay, turns to Albert Mason, a tender legal professional. Albert, whose prior quests for religious enlightenment have left him neither enlightened nor happy unearths salvation now not in asceticism yet in generosity and kindness. finally, it truly is his kindness and gentility that win Kitty's middle.

Doug, Kathleen's untrue husband, by no means loses his fascination with Kari, the younger lady who virtually destroyed his marriage. He faces huge, immense difficulties at paintings the place company politics and infighting threaten to spoil his profession.

The look for love, forgiveness, knowing and happiness leads every person down paths and into locations some distance faraway from the tasteless safeguard in their previous. nationwide politics, company politics, and the issues, petty and profound, of affection within the new millennium all conspire to impact the lives of Anna, her sisters and their households in methods by no means anticipated.