Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'.
'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an important novel, but an important historical document.
Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall.
Read the classic, chilling dystopian novel that inspired one of the world's most iconic film franchises'A scintillating mix of sci-fi adventure and allegory' Los Angeles Times In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system.
A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power Times Literary Supplement From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution.
"e;A cerebral explorer of the problems of narrative in the wake of Joyce and Woolf, of Borges, of Rulfo and Arlt, Saer is also a stunning poet of place.
** The inspiration for the NETFLIX original series Young Wallander - out now **When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess.
A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to.
Discover the books that changed the way the world reads crime - Stieg Larsson's phenomenal global blockbuster, the Millennium Trilogy"e;As vivid as bloodstains on snow"e; Lee ChildThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned by the powerful Vanger clan.
For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi's International School, it's all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid.
Sergio Bambaren, der Autor des Bestsellers »Der träumende Delphin«, erzählt von dem geheimnisvollen Surfer Shaun und seiner Leidenschaft für das Meer, von der Magie des blauen Elements und der Sprache der Natur, die nur die wenigsten verstehen.
Based on a real-life love triangle and later made into Fran ois Truffaut's famous New Wave film, Henri-Pierre Roch 's Jules et Jim is a paean to youth set in free-spirited Paris before the First World War.
From the author nominated for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize "e;Bae Suah offers the chance to unknow-to see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know-which is no small offering.
Told through a series of "e;historical documents"e;memoirs, illustrations, letters, philosophical treatises, blue prints, mapsthe novel details the tale of a secret Brotherhood who meet in dreams, gain esoteric knowledge from contemplation of the bicycle, and seek to move in and out of history, manipulating events.
An ice-cold mystery haunts Reykjav k in 1986, in this heart-stopping crime novel co-written by the Icelandic Prime Minister Katr n Jakobsdottir A classic crime novel, its noir at its finest The Sunday Times Nordic noir at its most authoritative Financial Times---What happened to Lara?
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
"e;Early in Sergio Chejfec's The Dark, the nameless narrator describes his disorientation when looking over a landscape as 'the vertigo of simple things.
Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarters takes place in the eighties and nineties, during Bulgaria's transition from communist rule to democracy.
Powerful and compelling' Guardian'Mathieu, a wonderful writer, echoes the grittiness and compassion of mile Zola in Germinal' Sunday TimesAfter the closure of a small-town factory is announced, the local community is hit by the prospect of mass unemployment.
The man with the nuclear briefcase has gone rogue - Mission Impossible meets the Hunt for Red October "e;What should a thriller do to rise above the ranks of the clich d?
"e;Flawlessly translated, Amanda Michalopolou's WIKMBF uses the backdrop of Greek politics, radical protests, and the art world to explore the dangers and joys that come with BFFs.
Als die besten Freundinnen Lana und Kitty ihrem grauen Alltag in England entfliehen wollen, finden sie Zuflucht auf einer traumhaften Jacht, die mit ihrer faszinierenden Crew von den Philippinen aus in See sticht.
