Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano's first three novels, about Paris under Nazi occupation, now in a single volume; the earliest--La Place de l'Etoile--in English for the first time.
Der Erste Weltkrieg und 100 Jahre danach - überall dieselbe Sehnsucht nach Frieden und MenschlichkeitElisabeths Leben ändert sich schlagartig, als sie unerwartet ein Bündel alter Briefe und dazu ein verwunschenes Haus fernab von Paris erbt.
Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, The Water Margin is an epic tale of rebellion against tyranny that will remind Western readers of the English classic Robin Hood and His Merry Men.
The book provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of Die Judenbuche (1842) by Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, arguably one of Germany's greatest female poets.
EINE ERZÄHLSTIMME VOLLER WUT UND LEBENDIGKEIT»Will oder kann man aus der kanadischen Literatur des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts nur eine Autorin lesen, so muss es Margaret Laurence sein.
Written in 1980, this novel by prize-winning Indian writer Mahasweta Devi, translated and introduced by Gayatri Chakravorty Sprivak, is remarkable for the way in which it touches on vital issues that have in subsequent decades grown into matters of urgent social concern.
An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina Morales ngela, Patricia, Marga and Nati are cousins living together in Barcelona.
The second volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the second volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature.
Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the Ivo Andri Grand Prize for best novel of 2022From the INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR Eugene Vodolazkin winner of the BIG BOOK AWARD, the LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD, and the READ RUSSIA AWARDFor fans of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Umberto EcoVodolazkins new novelBrisbaneis a sophisticated and frequently moving study in dissonance, dedicated to pointing out contrasts between art and life, beauty and decay, intention and outcome.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTThe first English-language story collection from one of Irans most important living fiction writers (Guardian), a playful, whip-smart literary conjuror: a Kundera or Rushdie of post-Khomeini Iran (Wall Street Journal)In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions.
Tormented by past heartbreak and contemporary politics, for Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta the news of the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in the drug-ridden city of Culiac n.
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO GUARDIAN AND THE SPECTATOR The final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century'No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Mar as .
Virginia Woolfs subtile Gesellschaftskomödie aus viktorianischer ZeitKatharine Hilbery, wohlerzogene Tochter aus der Londoner Oberschicht, ist standesgemäß und langweilig verlobt.
An intimate, heartbreaking autobiographical novel of an Algerian Muslim family’s exile from home and unwelcoming reception in France This moving tale of imprisonment and escape, persecution and loss, is narrated by the daughter of an alleged Harki, an Algerian soldier who fought for the French during the Algerian War for Independence.
Nach dem hoch gelobten Roman »Berta Isla« (2019) erscheint nun zum Spanien-Schwerpunkt der Frankfurter Buchmesse der neue Roman von Javier Marías: »Tomás Nevinson«.
**A Times 19 Best Books of 2024****A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2024**** A Times 10 Best Crime and Mystery Books of 2024 so far**"e;A police procedural unlike anything else in contemporary crime fiction"e; Sunday Times"e;The greatest exponent of the policier at work today"e; Mark Sanderson, The TimesAdam Sirkis needs to flee Syria.
Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet EraThe Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia.
[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.
Joy Stephens' Leben lässt wenig zu wünschen übrig: Mit Mitte dreißig steht sie kurz vor der Ernennung zur Partnerin in ihrer Londoner Anwaltskanzlei, sie ist der Inbegriff einer erfolgreichen, attraktiven Karrierefrau und führt eine offene, aber verlässliche Ehe.
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.
A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolstoy's controversial novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which was initially banned by Russian censors.
