Winners of the Inaugural Spain-USA Foundation Translation AwardInfused with the spirit of pulp fiction, b-movies, zines, and punk rock, The Fake Muse is a linguistic tour-de-force from the author of The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orp, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia.
Mit entwaffnendem Humor entlarvt dieses Buch die Logik der ErwachsenenweltMaja ist achtzehn Jahre alt, sie sollte Besseres zu tun haben, als in einem Keller zu sitzen und zu schreiben.
Franz Kafkas bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre.
Keiner nimmt Anna, die Jüngste der Familie, ernst: weder die beiden älteren Brüder, die sich mit Freunden im Wohnzimmer einschließen, um zu diskutieren, noch die Schwester Concettina, die vor allem ihre zahlreichen Verlobten im Kopf hat.
Den jungen Mailänder Grafen Aleardo verschlägt es bei seiner Suche nach zum Verkauf stehenden Ländereien auf eine einsame Insel vor der Küste Portugals, die nicht einmal auf den Landkarten zu finden ist.
Klug, katastrophal und witzig – wie das Leben:Matt Haigs inspirierender Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, ein Mensch zu seinAndrew Martin, Mathematikprofessor aus Cambridge, kann sich nur wundern: Über sich selbst, denn er läuft nackt über eine Autobahn, empfindet beim Gedanken an Essen Übelkeit und mag weder seine liebevolle Frau Isobel noch ihren gemeinsamen Sohn Gulliver.
For fans of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY and BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, discover the irresistibly uplifting Japanese hit novel about cats and the healing power of food.
A poetic reckoning with Turkish history, fuelled by mysticismIn 1938, in the remote Dersim region of Eastern Anatolia, the Turkish Republic launched an operation to erase an entire community of Zaza-speaking Alevi Kurds.
The first collection of Swahili fiction in English translation, No Edges introduces eight East African writers from Tanzania and Kenya as they share tales of sorcerers, Nairobi junkyards, cross-country bus rides, and spaceships that blast prisoners into eternity.
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 .
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.
'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.
