Several of the recent Oscar nominees began life as novels. You still have time to read a few before the awards are announced on February 26th.
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The descendants : a novel / Kaui Hart Hemmings A descendant of royalty and one of the largest landowners in Hawaii, Matthew King struggles to deal with his out-of-control daughters, ten-year-old Scottie and seventeen-year-old Alex, as well as his comatose wife, whom they are about to remove from lifesupport. |
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy / John le Carré British agent George Smiley hunts for a mole in the Secret Service and begins his epic game of international chess with his Soviet counterpart, an agent named Karla. |
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Extremely loud & incredibly close / Jonathan Safran Foer Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. |
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Albert Nobbs / George Moore While working at a hotel as a waiter, Albert Nobbs must share his bed with an out-of-town laborer who discovers his secret. |
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The help / Kathryn Stockett In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Stieg Larsson Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
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Summaries from publisher materials
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