Akram Aylislis People and Trees is the first major work in a long, illustrious literary career by the only contemporary writer from Azerbaijan to occupy a significant place on the world stage.
Discover the Queen of Scandi-crime Camilla Lackberg with these three thrillers - books 4, 5 and 6 in her 12 million copy international bestselling detective series, featuring Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck.
WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR SIDETRACKEDHerbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden.
Glimmende Eukalyptusbäume und ein verkohlter Heuschuppen zeugen von dem Buschfeuer, das den beiden Männern auf der Schotterpiste zum Verhängnis geworden ist.
In der Lyrik der Gegenwart ist Alice Oswalds Werk einzigartig; ein Plädoyer für die Dimension des Hörens, ein Lauschen auf die feinen lautlichen Differenzen und ein Rückgriff auf eine Lyrik, deren lebendige Farbigkeit sie für uns neu entdeckt: Homer steht wieder am Horizont.
The timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation, violence, and religion.
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary*Featuring the story Barn Burning , the inspiration behind the Palme d Or nominated film Burning*When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset.
Spanning 500 years of Brazilian history, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters chronicles a family of women, beginning in 1500 with the birth of Inaia, daughter of a Tupiniquim warrior, and ending in 2001 with Inaia's distant descendent, Maria Flor.
A moving, deeply affecting story about street children in Africa, from the bestselling writer behind the Kurt Wallander series One night Jos hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery.
Two brothers are reunited high in the Italian Alps, surrounded by the peaks, valleys and nature of a wild, secluded worldThe heart-stopping new novel from Italy s million-copy bestselling author of The Eight Mountains'A writer of rare wisdom and grace' Wall Street JournalAlfredo and Luigi grew up in Valsesia, in northern Italy.
Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu PrizeCaught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor, illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive.
Das Silmarillion erzählt die Götter- und Heldensagen Mittelerdes von der Erschaffung der Welt bis zum Beginn des Dritten Zeitalters, in dem die Hobbits leben.
Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in France in 1977, The Desert tells the story of al-Mammi, a young exiled prince of a now-destroyed Jewish kingdom in southern Morocco in the late fourteenth century.
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion.
After their successful solving of three cold cases and exposing corruption at the very highest level of the Paris police force, Anne Capestan's squad of misfits and no-hopers should be in a celebratory mood.
A man obsessively investigates the mysteries of his family’s past in this “brave and unflinching” novel by the acclaimed Russian author of Oblivion (The Financial Times).
Nach einem mit Bravour absolvierten Schulabschluss entgleist das Leben einer jungen Erwachsenen, die sich in der Obsession verfängt, weniger werden zu wollen.
