Ein wahnwitziges Intrigenspiel im Schatten der Berliner Mauer - Der legendäre George Smiley, ehemaliger Chef des britischen Geheimdienstes, wird noch einmal gebraucht.
The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek-a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria's scenic landscape among historic churches and castles.
A new translation of the Italian novelist's cautionary comedy of excess and despair in 1920s Paris-"e;this little romp is always a pleasurable one"e; (Publishers Weekly).
"e;Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner"e; Christian House, Financial TimesA young woman becomes obsessed with her psychoanalyst's daughter.
"e;One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers"e; New York Times"e;Magda Szab 's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles"e; EconomistEszter Encsy is an acclaimed actress, funny and outrageous, quick-witted but callous.
Rolien ist elf Jahre alt, steht kurz vor dem Ende der goldenen Puppenzeit und ist reichlich seltsam, ebenso »mädchennärrisch« wie im Spiel der Phantasie gefangen.
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.
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today.
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.
WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE, THE SWISS BOOK PRIZE AND THE J RGEN PONTO LITERATURE PRIZE'Powerful'Times Literary Supplement'Formally adventurous'New York Times 'An exquisite inquiry into what it means to be an individual in a body, a family, a society, with all the attendant misery, humour, joy and enduring mystery'Krystelle Bamford, author of Idle GroundsAs their grandmother slides into dementia, an unnamed narrator begins to ask questions - to fill in the gaps, to resist the silence that shrouds their family.
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.
Scrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Zundel: a philosopher, a wanna-be writer; scattered, self-conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent .
Der Debütroman von Irene Solà – der Autorin von »Singe ich, tanzen die Berge«Nach dem dreijährigen Studium in England kehrt Ada in das Bauerndorf ihrer Kindheit zurück.
**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.
Drei Kontinente, sieben Länder, neun aktuelle Stücke: Zum spanischsprachigen Kulturraum gehören lebendige Theaterlandschaften, die herausragende Dramatiker*innen und brillante Theatertexte hervorgebracht haben.
The follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The President's Gardens"e;Al-Ramli is a remarkable storyteller, and in Daughter of the Tigris he creates a dynamic, intricately plotted narrative, brimming with stories and a host of memorable characters"e; Susannah Tarbush, Banipal On the sixth day of Ramadan, in a land without bananas, Qisma leaves for Baghdad with her husband-to-be to find the body of her father.
A quirky, joyful queer love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of cult hit DIARY OF A VOID'Filled with movement and passion - a luminous story that reveals a whole world of desire and possibility' Rosie Price, author of THE ORANGE ROOMRika Horauchi s new part-time job is to converse with a statue of Venus in Latin every Monday, when the museum is closed.
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 .
