Het leven van een jonge vrouw die in de jaren dertig als negenjarige verkocht wordt om in Kioto opgeleid te gaan worden tot geisha.

Portret van een dysfunctioneel Amerikaans gezin van de jaren tachtig van de 20e eeuw tot heden.

Verhalen over ondermeer joodse emigranten in New York.

De advocate van een verkrachte serveerster wordt op alle mogelijke manieren gedwarsboomd.

Vijfde roman over Andreas Klein, waarin de rol van zijn moeder (haar vlucht uit haar gezin in 1960, haar dood in 2004) centraal staat.

Mystical, seductive, and brimming with music and magic, this novel follows three generations of passionate women. Norea's daughter, Dagmar, is born with an ability to control the weather, and Dagmar's daughter Nyssa is as musically brilliant as her father and as struck with wanderlust.

After coming to the aid of a dying homeless woman, Mimi retreats to her bed, daydreaming about the identity of the woman, the whereabouts of her estranged mother, and the demise of a recent romance

In a story set in nineteenth-century New Zealand and modern London, Jack Mackenzie, a minister and amateur botanist, arrives in Dunedin, only to be expelled from New Zealand, an event that has profound repercussions for his present-day descendants.

In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS... ""Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending."" --Chicago Tribune " "Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way."" --Glamour " "Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human."" --Miami Herald " "Compelling power...tenderness and perceptiveness." " --New York Times " "I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary." " --Mademoiselle " "Deeply impressive...powerful." " --Newsweek " "Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel." " --Chicago Sun-Times " "Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel." " --Village Voice " "Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable." " --Kirkus Reviews " "An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel." " --Joseph Heller