Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman trapped in a slowly curdling relationship.
LOS MEJORES MISTERIOS SOBRE EL MUNDO DE LOS LIBROS UNA OBRA DE LA ETERNA CANDIDATA AL NOBEL DE LITERATURA El ansia de un amante de los libros lo lleva al asesinato en este oscuro relato.
A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII-era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogyButangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit and hypersensitivity of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once hung in the village's centuries-old stave church.
Deep in the Malaysian rainforest, two comrades pine for each other but don't know how to declare their love; a fastidious man with perfect hearing keeps his comrades safe time after time, a woman viewed as a burden nonetheless manages to delight her comrades the day she finds a mythical mouse deer.
No Presents Please;is a vivid evocation of city life, exploring the sub-locales and spatial identities of Mumbai and the struggles of small-town migrants.
»Maktub – es steht geschrieben«: In seinen knapp 180 zeitlosen Geschichten und Gedanken über die Liebe, über Angst, Mut und die kleinen Wunder des Alltags zeigt uns Paulo Coelho, dass Glück und Erfüllung oft viel näher sind, als wir denken.
A CHILLING NORDIC THRILLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD'Seeck has an uncanny ability to get the reader's heart pounding' - BooklistWhen homicide detective Jessica Niemi is ordered to take leave from work after her involvement in a street brawl, she retreats to a remote island in the land archipelago to rest.
Andr Aciman's Call Me by Your Name meets Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: a rediscovered gay classic, published in English for the first time in thirty years'A classic of Italian gay fiction .
Shyamalendu Chatterjee of Limited is a gifted student of Shakespeare who has become successful at marketing ceiling fans produced by a multinational company.
The sequel to the iconic worldwide bestseller THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR"e;If you liked The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair, you will love this"e; The Times"e;One of the world's most original voices in crime fiction"e;A.
Upon being arrested for the gruesome murder of her father, all college student Kanna Hijiriyama tells the police is, "e;It's up to you to find the motive.
Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional ghost stories by one of Japan's most exciting writers.
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.
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover.
Dirty Diana: Die Reise erzählt einfühlsam von den Herausforderungen langer Partnerschaften, dem Mut zur Veränderung und der Kraft, die in der Erforschung der eigenen Sinnlichkeit liegt.
Una colección de cuentos y relatos que exploran tanto las complejidades de lo femenino en la vida cotidiana como al protagonizar relatos fantásticos que nos permiten soñar otras realidades.
Die Wirren der albanischen Geschichte im Kampf um nationale Unabhängigkeit packt Ismail Kadare in ein einziges verflixtes Jahr: 1914, als der gefürchtete Komet Delavan am Himmel auftaucht und die europäischen Großmächte beschließen, den deutschen Prinzen Wilhelm zu Wied auf den albanischen Thron zu setzen.
A contemporary, feminist take on a Heart of Darkness-esque tale of an upriver journey through a landscape scarred by ecological destruction, and a culture scarred by historical greed.
Alma erforscht am Zentrum für Biodiversität in Arpiet, einem Ort in den Pyrenäen, das Verhalten der hier wieder angesiedelten Bären; sie will herausfinden, wie ein Zusammenleben zwischen den Wildtieren und dem Menschen besser funktionieren kann.
