Venezuela 2012: The President's illness casts a shadow over the lives of his citizens - he divides opinion, but life without him is almost unimaginable.
'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last'A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S as a form of therapy.
Winner of the prestigious Prix Femina, The Boy is an expansive and entrancing historical novel that follows a nearly feral child from the French countryside as he joins society and plunges into the torrid events of the first half of the 20th century.
'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the late afternoon call to prayer - my aunt sprang briskly back to life'In this fictional memoir of Hayri Irdal - troublesome boy, workshy man and feckless husband - life is examined in all its double-crossing, chaotic, disastrous glory.
Step into snowy Iceland with the final nail-biting instalment in the critically acclaimed Hidden Iceland series - FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR - NOW A MAJOR CHANNEL 4 DRAMA'Is this the best crime writer in the world today?
A semi-autobiographical portrait of the original Yentl and “an important contribution to the vastly neglected genre of feminist Yiddish literature” (Booklist).
"e;An outstanding addition to an impressive oeuvre"e; Times Literary SupplementArthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, wanders the streets of Berlin, a city whose recent past provides the perfect backdrop for his reflections on life and the universe as he collects images for his latest project - a film that will show the world through his eyes.
'Indisputably the definitive translation' Observer'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' Ben OkriWidely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain.
*A GUARDIAN BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL OF 2023**A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2023 FINALIST**A WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2023*"e;A powerful story of mothers and daughters"e; Guardian"e;A haunting, mysterious tour de force"e; Lucy Scholes, Prospect"e;I was hypnotised from the first word to the last"e; Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch"e;[A] fiercely intelligent story: everyone is complex and full of shadows, as life is"e; Mariana Enr quez, author of The Dangers of Smoking in BedWhen Gilles Principaux walks into Ma tre Susane's legal practice seeking representation for his wife, his presence triggers memories from her childhood she had long buried.
Die Welt horchte auf, als nach der Befreiung von der Talibanherrschaft eine Gruppe afghanischer Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler Shakespeares Verlorene Liebesmüh in Kabul aufführte.
Madsen erzählt eine durchgehende Geschichte, die vier Stilebenen hat, wobei eine Stilebene unmerklich zur anderen wechselt: Vom Kriminalroman zum Liebesroman, vom Pornoroman zum Science-Fiction-Roman.
Jenn Lyons eröffnet mit »Der Untergang der Könige« ein großes Epos um einen Jungen, der mitten hinein gerät in die Konflikte zwischen Adelshäusern, Zauberern und Dämonen.
Soul-shattering and profound detective novel from the international award-winning sensationWHAT YOU DON'T KNOWCAN NEVER HURT YOUTHE UNKNOWNMazal Bengtson doesn't know what her husband was doing on the night of the storm.
'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' Guardian'Juan Mars 's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable' Times Literary SupplementFrom one of Spain's most acclaimed authors, comes an extraordinary novel about ambition and longing set against the backdrop of post-war Barcelona.
AKirkusBest Indie Book of the Year & aLibrary JournalBest World Literature read, from Pulitzer Prize-winning AP Journalist and Director/Producer/Writer of the Academy Award-winning documentary20 Days in Mariupol[A] book for our timesvivid enough to grab us and not let go.
_______________________A DRAMATIC FICTIONAL PORTRAIT OF THE US-MEXICO BORDER, MIGRATION, AND ITS IMPACT ON PEOPLE'S LIVES_______________________Through this network of nine personal stories, Carlos Fuentes sets out to explain Mexico and America to each other and to the rest of the world.
This “varied and polished” anthology of original noir fiction introduces a new wave of Czech authors to English-speaking audiences (Publishers Weekly).
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.
Eine heitere und tiefgründige Liebeskomödie von Pulitzer-Preisträger Andrew Sean Greer über die großen Zeichen der Liebe, die Ungleichzeitigkeit der Gefühle und ein Wohnmobil namens Rosina.
A middle-aged filmmaker visits Indonesia and becomes entranced by the Toraja custom of interning the bodies of very young deceased children in the trunks of trees.
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier.
"e;One of contemporary fiction's most gifted sentence builders"e; Beejay Silcox, GuardianBehind the ornate doors of 30, rue du M tal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative painting - that art of tricksters and counterfeiters, where each knot in a plank of wood hides a secret and every vein in a slab of marble tells a story.
At an international literary conference in Rome in the near future, the greatest detectives in history (and literature) gather to solve the mystery of Dickens' unfinished novel THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD and end up solving the mystery of Dickens' own death.
Desire and tragedy upset the lives of an Israeli family in this “thrilling, fresh, and surprising” debut novel from the award-winning filmmaker (ForeWord Review).
