Christina Baker Kline: The Foursome, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Foursome
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins, 05/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780063497160
- Item number:
- 12458288
- Volume:
- 560 Pages
- Weight:
- 295 g
- Format:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Thickness:
- 32 mm
- Release date:
- 12.5.2026
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 27.91* |
Blurb
From #1 New York Timesbestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina --- Kline's own distant relatives --- who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.
When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they're not just a curiosity---they're a sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether the salacious rumors about them are true. Within months, the twins have opened a general store, bought land, and begun building a plantation. Now, word has it, they're looking for wives---and in a place that thrives on gossip and legacy, their ambitions set the community on edge.
Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of a once-prominent local family brought low by scandal, are drawn into their orbit. Bold, beautiful Adelaide sees in the twins' fame a chance to reclaim her future. Sarah, quiet and observant, isn't so sure. When the twins' lives become entangled with theirs, they must navigate loyalty, longing, and identity in a world where everything---including race, class, and gender---is rigidly defined.
Spanning five decades and unfolding against the backdrop of a fractured nation hurtling toward war, The Foursomeis both intimate and epic: a story of love and constraint, identity and reinvention. With piercing insight and emotional precision, Kline brings to life a forgotten chapter of American history and the complex, boundary-defying marriages at its center.