by Brian Moore · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257219975
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«Die Frau des Arztes» is the novel by Brian Moore, published by Diogenes Verlag AG in hardcover (302 pages, in German).
Married to a successful doctor, Sheila Redden travels alone to France to meet him. In Paris she meets Tom, a young American, and falls in love. After hesitating, she gives herself to the relationship and discovers an unknown happiness, but Tom pressures her to leave with him for the United States. Sheila must choose between her marriage and a love that transforms her.
Originally published as «The Doctor's Wife» in 1976, this German edition includes the translation by Jürgen Abel and belongs to Diogenes' detebe collection (no. 21997).
For readers of literary fiction seeking adult love stories, with a sentimental triangle and a female protagonist facing a major decision.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
