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.
In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench and alerts the authorities.
In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou.
Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt.
**AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK WOMAN & HOME NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH iPaper TOP FICTION PICK'An absolutely charming novel that all bookworms will adore' Red'A balm for the soul and a glorious love letter to books and reading' iPaperThere was only one thing on her mind.
First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones.
erzählt die Geschichte von vier Frauen, die mit der Diagnose einer geistigen Behinderung in einer betreuten Wohnung im gentrifizierten Barcelona leben.
A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction.
Zeno ist fünfzehn und sitzt im berüchtigten Jugendgefängnis auf der Insel Nisida vor Neapel, weil er einen Jungen, der ihn umbringen sollte, erschossen hat.
Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station.
Giuliano reist durch das zerstörte Nachkriegseuropa auf der Suche nach seiner Vergangenheit – und nach seiner ZukunftItalien in den 1950er-Jahren: Giuliano erlebt und beobachtet in Rom und Neapel das totale Chaos aller Institutionen, die Kämpfe zwischen Royalisten und Kommunisten und die beginnende Modernisierung.
This devastating dossier of savage stories takes us to the crimes that never reach the newspapers: small-town atrocities where the mundane lurches into the macabre and ordinary people find themselves at the heart of horrific crimes, all the more compelling on account of their truth.
"e;This gripping novel is as good at describing the magnificent seascapes and the unforgiving elements as it is at examining the inner lives of the besieged crew, toiling ceaselessly against implacable nature"e; -Financial Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR"e;Gripping and Exciting"e; The Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEARIn February 1959, several Icelandic trawlers were caught in a storm off Newfoundland's Grand Banks.
After her ex-husband dies unexpectedly, Nora Garcia travels to the funeral, back to a Mexican village from her past and the art and music of their life together.
Vor einem Panorama überwältigender Natur – drei unnachgiebige Frauen einer sámischen Familie kämpfen um ihre HeimatJedes Jahr im Frühling kehren sie nach dem Winter in ihr »Sommerland« am See im Nordwesten Schwedens zurück.
THE PULSE-RAISING NEW WISTING NOVEL FROM 10 MILLION COPY BESTSELLER J RN LIER HORST, NOW A MAJOR BBC 4 TV SHOW'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMES'One of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today' SUNDAY TIMESA BODY IN THE LAKE.
Zu entdecken: Ein vergessenes Meisterwerk, eine moderne Odyssee, ein grandioses Meeres-EposDie Landschaften um die Straße von Messina bilden die Brücke zwischen den Mythen der Antike und der Gegenwart.
Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text.
_______________'His novels probe the sore spots and raw wounds of contemporary Spain, their cunning and complexity leavened by a light touch and an easy, graceful style' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent on Sunday'The beauty of this intelligently probing novel is that one is left wondering if we ever truly know anything about anybody that anybody including ourselves' - Scotsman'Compelling .
In this collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD, 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells of a boy and girl abandoned at birth, who grow up to fall in love and battle pirates.
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)PalestinianArmenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England.
SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed.
A landmark new anthology of Bengali literature in English, including many previously untranslated stories 'A splendid guide to unmapped lands [Sinha] is one of the best living translators at work bringing the Bengali classics into English he writes with exceptional elegance and wit, and is astonishingly productive.
