A classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story from a Danish literary superstar'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' GUARDIAN A comet in Scandinavian literature OLGA RAVNA woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London.
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami'- Haruki Murakami'The most exciting Japanese novelist at work today'- The TimesA heart-stopping story of teenage girls on the brink in 1990s Tokyo from the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs.
For fans of What You Are Looking For is in the Library and Days at the Morisaki BookshopTranslated by Philip Gabriel, the translator of The Travelling Cat ChroniclesThe Night Library is no ordinary library.
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always whenYour glance in secrecy met mine,And in my face your love was likeA visibly reflected sign.
'A book that confronts the purity of fact, the tyranny of memory, and the totalitarianism of family like no other' Jhumpa Lahiri'Intense, sharply imagined and fascinating' Colm Toibin'On that day, ten years ago, I saw my parents for the last time.
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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksSaadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other.
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit.
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIn October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris a dreamlike journey towards getting lost.
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Baz n, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist.
"e;The Incredible Story of How the Papacy Became Infallible Under Pius IX and XII"e; delves into a pivotal transformation within the Catholic Church, revealing how two of its most influential Popes reshaped its doctrines and authority.
Colette's irresistible depiction of a childhood in rural France, in a lush new translation I will never be able to help anyone imagine the splendour, bound up in my memories Claudine lives in a large house with a rose-filled garden and a vegetable patch smelling of tomato leaves and apricots.
No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times George SteinerAfter an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents.
Von den engsten Verwandten des Menschen – und einer jungen Frau, die sich auf die Seite der Tiere stelltDieses Angebot kann die Profiturnerin Angel aus dem beschaulichen Fischerdörfchen in Cornwall nicht ablehnen: Eine Reise auf eine abgelegene Insel Tansanias, um die Sprache der Schimpansen zu erforschen – nicht aus der Distanz, sondern mitten unter ihnen, hoch oben in den Baumkronen des Urwalds.
Neuseeland in den 1980er-Jahren: Auf einem Musikfestival trifft der Filmstudent Ethan Grieg die 18-jährige Umweltaktivistin Amber Deering und verliebt sich in sie.
Fabien, piloto de correo aéreo, emprende un peligroso vuelo nocturno desde Patagonia hasta Buenos Aires durante una terrible tempestad, azuzado por su intransigente jefe, Rivière.
Del autor de Días sin final, una novela que explora el amor, la memoria y los viejos secretos enterradosEl policía recién jubilado Tom Kettle se aclimata a la tranquilidad de su nuevo hogar, en el anexo a un castillo victoriano con vistas al mar de Irlanda.
En el díptico que integran "Yo, Claudio" y "Claudio el dios y su esposa Mesalina", la amplitud y la profundidad de los conocimientos sobre la Antigüedad clásica de Robert Graves (1895-1985) se conjugan con una prosa que da aliento una poderosa y viva imaginación capaz de reconstruir toda la grandeza y miseria de la Roma imperial.
«Influenciado por autores como Margaret Drabble, Truman Capote, Kurt Vonnegut, Joan Didion y los escritos de Andy Warhol, Coupland se ha caracterizado por construir una obra basada en la profusión de detalles: la forma de vida de personajes, las referencias a innumerables marcas y productos del mundo del consumo [.
Vuelve Douglas Coupland con una novela para leer en «modo atracón» En los años 90, la publicación de "Generación X" convirtió a Douglas Coupland en el gran cronista de los nativos digitales.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
A haunting novel of love, fate and war from the Austrian master and acclaimed author of Baron Bagge and Count Luna ('A book so astonishing I immediately re-read it' Patti Smith) He d had the feeling that he was expected there, on that day.
Ein Horror-Thriller im Stil von Stephen King – packend und unvergesslichFür die junge Malerin Mina scheint das Stipendium in der abgelegenen Küstenstadt Crow's Cry die lang ersehnte Rettung zu sein.
Never before translated short stories by the legendary gota Krist f 'One of the 20th century's greatest writers' Camilla Grudova'Pure genius' Max PorterI don t care: it s not even pretty.
