Von den feuchten Hütten in Mumbai bis in toskanische Landvillen – »Goldschakal« ist ein schonungsloser Roman über die Ungleichheit der modernen Welt und wie sie auf die intimsten Beziehungen durchschlägt.
Ted Wragg is well-known for his writing on all the essential issues in education and over the last thirty years contributed over forty books and a thousand articles to the field.
A leading French feminist and writer, Groult drew wide attention with this sexually daring novelThe NY TimesSalt on my Skin is widely regarded as Benote Groults most pioneering, best-loved book.
Once upon a time there was a boy whose mother called him "e;Wolf"e;She thought this name would bring him strength, luck, natural authority, but how could she know that this boy would grow up to be the gentlest and strangest of sons and that he would end up captured like a wild animalThere he is now, in the back of a police van, as we turn the pageIt all begins with a crash.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER A master of the short form IndependentWide-ranging, suggestive, and ever-daring, Roberto Bola o's short stories map out the dark terrain that he would go on to explore in his novellas and epic novels.
**Sally Page's remarkable new novel The Secrets of Flowers is available now**From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes an utterly beautiful and charming novel full of mystery and secrets waiting to be uncovered.
_____________________'An admirable novel'- The Times'In this portrait of men and women swept along by great events, and determined to be on the side of the angels, Fuentes has invested the often colourless world of politics with romantic ardour' - Sunday Telegraph_____________________An epic and heartbreaking love story that will leave no one untouched.
Von slowenischen Partisaninnen und Partisanen im Zweiten Weltkrieg, über die Nachwirkungen des Kommunismus in Familie und Gesellschaft, Studierendenproteste und das Leben als Mutter, Schriftstellerin und Ehefrau: Maruša Krese war Dichterin und Journalistin, sie war Weltbürgerin, Störenfried und Friedenskämpferin.
Die Rückkehr der Götter - Fernando Pessoas visionäres Lebensprojekt über den Wandel des Glaubens in der Moderne»Bei einem so großen Mangel an Literatur, den es heutzutage gibt, was kann da ein Mensch von Genie anders machen, als sich, nur für sich allein, in eine Literatur zu verwandeln?
In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina's first Ethnographic Theme Park.
Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society's margins.
The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print and online magazines such as the Believer, Bookslut, Paste, and the Huffington Post; radio interviews with editor Aleksandar Hemon on NPR stations in the US and BBC Radio 3 and 4 in the UK; and a terrific response from booksellers, who made Best European Fiction 2010 an "e;Indie Next"e; pick and created table displays and special promotions throughout the US and UK.
'Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust' Thomas MannA story of war in all its absurdity and horror, this incomparable novel describes the fortunes of a young boy travelling through a world ravaged by conflict, and the terrible things he witnesses.
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*Read this imaginative masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian WoodThe year is 1984.
Zsofia Ban's Night School: A Reader for Adults uses a textbook format to build an encyclopedia of lifesubject by subject, from self-help to geography to chemistry to French.
A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored.
*Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award*Eliete is forty (-something) Eliete has been married to Jorge for twenty years Eliete has an average career as an average estate agent Eliete has a completely normal life Eliete has reached breaking-point Eliete is stuck in both a dead-end job, and a dead-end marriage.
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016Clarisse Rivi re's life is shaped by a refusal to admit to her husband Richard and to her daughter Ladivine that her mother is a poor black housekeeper.
One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university.
