Ein Wunder der Erinnerung, ein Triumph autobiographischer LiteraturDie erste Erinnerung ist ein flackernder Schwarzweißfilm: Winter 1945, ein Fliegerangriff auf einen Zug, den das Kind überlebt.
In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground.
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEThe acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, adapted into the award-winning film Schindler's List'One of the world's greatest writers' Spectator'Extraordinary' Graham Greene'Powerful' The Times'Marvellous' Sunday TimesIn the shadow of Auschwitz, as thousands faced death in Nazi-occupied Poland, an unlikely saviour emerged.
Mit literarischen Beiträgen von Gabriele von Arnim, Zsuzsa Bánk, Marica Bodrožić, Isabel Bogdan, Ann Cotten, Mareike Fallwickl, Julia Friese, Olga Grjasnowa, Claudia Hamm, Stefanie Jaksch, Rasha Khayat, Christine Koschmieder, Jarka Kubsova, Daria Kinga Majewski, Maria-Christina Piwowarski, Judith Poznan, Slata Roschal, Caca Savić, Clara Schaksmeier und Simone ScharbertUnsere Leben verlaufen längst nicht so linear, wie Bücher sie oft erzählen.
THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE COUSINS WAR SERIES FROMSUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR, PHILIPPA GREGORYChild-bride of Edmund Tudor, although widowed in her early teens, is determined to infiltratethe house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant.
2 Ennerdale Drive is a memoir of a house and the family that lived there; a work of text and image encompassing architecture, social and personal history, town planning, photography and representation, carving a space within and between new forms of memoir, cultural studies and creative non-fiction.
Part novel, part Pop artwork, Andy Warhol's a is an electrifying slice of life at his Factory studio'A work of genius' NewsweekIn the early 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn the novel into pop art.
'The beautiful illusion, when reading Tolstoy, is that one is looking directly at the world, as opposed to a depiction' Andrew O'Hagan from his preface to Childhood, Boyhood and YouthPublished in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy's first published work, and the first of a trilogy of stories that evoke the upbringing and traditional education of a Russian aristocrat in a world that vanished with the revolution.
With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White'Unforgettable, heartbreaking' New York Times'Brilliant' - Dazed'As brutal as it is elegant' - Neil Bartlett'Electrifying' - Colm Toibin'Dazzling' - Katherine AngelAfter being diagnosed with AIDS, Herve Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life.
A struggling writer journeys through the world of fan conventions, collectible merch and more in this satirical novel-a "e;searing critique of geek culture"e; (Washington Post).
Natsume Soseki, el más clásico de los autores del Japón moderno, despliega en Kokoro, a partir de una inteligente estructura narrativa, un poético y desolador viaje hacia la conciencia del protagonista.
In his novel based on the extraordinary life of the brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell re-creates the rich and changing world in which Sergey, his family and friends lived; from wealth and position in pre-revolutionary Russia to the halls of Cambridge University and the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing above them.
Die Geschichte einer Friseurin, die die Modewelt in Paris aufmischen will – und am Ende in ihrem kleinen Laden in Berlin die Formel für Schönheit neu erfindet.
THE NEW FIRST WORLD WAR SPY THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE A masterful storyteller with an intricate knowledge of his subject The Daily Telegraph Judd, a veteran spy novelist and former diplomat, knows his way around Britains world of shadows.
