'Hooks you in immediately' Daily Express'Typically twisty Nesbo' The Sun 'Electrifying' Crime Monthly**A NEW gritty standalone thriller from the global crime sensation**'Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers' Sunday ExpressThis killer has a story.
Complex and hauntingly beautiful, Lygia Fagundes Telles's most acclaimed novel is a journey into the inner lives of three young women, each revealing her secrets and loves, each awaiting a destiny tied to the colorful and violent world of modern Brazil.
Mit ihrem Hund streifte Mary Oliver durch die Landschaft New Englands und verfasste die wohl bekanntesten zeitgenössischen Gedichte über die zarten Erscheinungen der Natur.
Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the Well, in 1686.
Closing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel and the masterpieces of the early Soviet avant-garde, this masterful mixture of prose and poetry, excerpts from private letters and diaries, and quotes from newspapers and NKVD documents, is a unique amalgam of documentary, philosophical novel, and black humor.
"e;Karastoyanov's novel is set in Bulgaria in the 1920s, but also invokes the spirit of John Lennon, and brings to mind Dostoevsky's Demons with its anarchists and assassins, lighthouses, zeppelins, and synthesis of modernist narrative techniques and Balkan storytelling.
The first translation of The Countess von Rudolstadt in more than a century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece.
[A] gripping mix of stories and poems interwoven with moments of quiet, affecting beauty This remarkable work rescues an important 20th-century Israeli voice from obscurity.
Wenn die eigenen Überzeugungen Leben gefährdenNach tagelangen Regenfällen kommt es zwischen Larvik und Stavern zu einem folgenreichen Erdrutsch, viele Häuser werden zerstört.
This collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities.
Dovlatov and Surroundingsis a literary ode by one of the most consequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, to another: Sergei Dovlatov.
CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 202349th SHELF EDITORS' PICK FOR JUNE 2023When a family is forced to return to the mothers childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent beauty of the natural world.
“An existential fable” from the uncompromising Polish author of Killing the Second Dog, known as the James Dean of Eastern Europe (The New York Times).
When a fourth corpse in three days washes up in Tangier with a bullet in the chest, Detective Laafrit knows this isn't just another illegal immigrant who didn't make it to the Spanish coast.
Über das Vergehen der Zeit, über Verschwinden und Wiederkehr, Vergänglichkeit und Ewigkeit - Cécile Wajsbrots neuer Roman, kongenial übersetzt von Anne Weber.
This Is a Classic illuminates the overlooked networks that contribute to the making of literary classics through the voices of multiple translators, without whom writers would have a difficult time reaching a global audience.
When Quentin's lover announces that she's leaving him for his brother and moving to America, he replies spontaneously that he too is leaving the country: but going where?
