From the award-winning pen of Achmat Dangor comes a subtle and multi-layered collection of short stories that showcases an unusual and illuminating take on 'the struggle years', and how the past impacts on us in a variety of ways.
When the Soweto uprisings of June 1976 took place, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu, the author of this book, was a 14-year-old pupil at Phefeni Junior Secondary School.
'In der russischen Stadt Baku, auf der Grenze zwischen Orient und Okzident, verlieben sich am Vorabend der Russischen Revolution der temperamentvolle Muslim Ali und die schöne Christin Nino ineinander.
»Die Zollbeamtin sieht mich an, schaut kurz auf meinen Pass und schreibt ›Karel‹, meinen zweiten Vornamen … der Nachname kommt von ›Koninkrijk der Nederlanden‹, Königreich der Niederlanden, was fett auf dem holländischen Pass steht.
Im Deltagebiet des Mekong, zwischen Wasser und Land, leben Fischer, Entenzüchter, Erntehelfer, alte, schweigsame und skurrile Männer, unglückliche Frauen und allein gelassene Kinder.
Der neue große Roman von Uwe Timm - »ein wuchtiges Nachkriegsepos« Der SpiegelDeutschland Ende April 1945: Michael Hansen, 25, kehrt als amerikanischer Offizier in das Land seiner Geburt zurück und übernimmt einen Auftrag des Geheimdienstes.
In diesem Roman entfaltet Literaturnobelpreisträger Camilo José Cela das Panoptikum des Allzumenschlichen - die Liebe, die Eifersucht, der Ehebruch vor dem Hintergrund des Franco Regimes.
En 1920, el departamento de Instruccion Publica encargo a Anton Semionovich Makarenko (1888-1939) que organizara en las cercanias de Poltava, una colonia para delincuentes menores de edad que, posteriormente, recibio el nombre de colonia Maximo Gorki.
Das Letzte, was sie hörte, war ein Schlaflied Herbst 1997: Auf dem Wilzenberg wird eine junge Frau tot aufgefunden, ermordet durch einen Stich ins Herz.
Author ofThe Association of Small Bombs, longlisted for the National Book AwardRakesh Ahuja, a Government Minister in New Delhi, is beset by problems: thirteen children and another on the way; a wife who mourns the loss of her favorite TV star; and a teenaged son with somereallystrong opinions about family planning.
An extraordinary new writer makes her literary debut with this suspenseful novel of desire, obsession, power and vulnerability, in which a crisis of inheritance leads to the downfall of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in early twentieth-century Iran.
Leading a mission to capture master terrorist, Abu Nazir, CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison discovers a dangerous threat inside the Agency in this thrilling second official prequel novel to Showtimes Emmy Award-winning hit series Homeland.
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGSLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE 2018THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE and THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke.
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its hearta bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been torn apart by war.
'Provocative, compassionate and beautiful' - Joy Harjo, US Poet LaureateWINNER OF THE 1987 NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARD; WINNER OF THE 2008 NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREA moving story of a Maori community's fight for survival, from one of New Zealand's most prominent and celebrated authorsOn the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds the land and the sea, a small Maori community live, work, fish, play and tell stories of their ancestors.
'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time.
Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption.
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now.
Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation is a first-hand account of the university protests that gripped South Africa between 2015 and 2017, widely better known as the #FeesMustFall.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEAn award-winning, thrillingly provocative international bestseller - adapted to a major motion picture starring Riz Ahmed and Kiefer Sutherland - from the author of Exit West'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance?
Die Geschichte beginnt ganz harmlos mit den Vorbereitungen für den Besuch einer Theater-Premiere, wobei unser Erzähler seine geliebte Ehefrau Manuela beim Einkaufen neuer Kleidung begleitet.
