The narrators of Paco Ignacio Taibo II's wonderfully inventive novel, Four Hands, are Greg Simon and Julio Fernandez: investigative journalists uncovering an elaborate plot by an obscure American government agency to vilify the Sandinista leadership in Nicaragua.
Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila"e;Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly contemporary in spirit"e; Jonathan FranzenStung by the realisation that his father is a fraud and a failure, Onofre Bouvila leaves a life of rural poverty to seek his fortune in Barcelona.
»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.
The gripping new stand-alone mystery from 'world-class crime writer' Ragnar J nasson, soon to be a major motion picture'Is this the best crime writer in the world today' THE TIMES'So atmospheric, I was immediately transported to the Icelandic moors .
Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt.
An intimate, heartbreaking autobiographical novel of an Algerian Muslim family’s exile from home and unwelcoming reception in France This moving tale of imprisonment and escape, persecution and loss, is narrated by the daughter of an alleged Harki, an Algerian soldier who fought for the French during the Algerian War for Independence.
Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon's short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka.
From the author of the bestselling Richard and Judy bookclub pick I'm Travelling Alone'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money' Sunday Express'The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation' Sunday Times___________When a young woman is found dead, the police are quick to respond.
Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on SPIRAL and a million-copy bestseller"e;The greatest exponent of the policier at work today"e; Mark Sanderson, The Times"e;Exhilarating .
A powerful story about a man's discovery of faith and identity after his escape from Nazi persecution in Poland, new to Penguin Modern ClassicsFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Penitent is the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish faith.
A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond ChandlerThe Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.
Der große neue Roman der japanischen ErfolgsautorinEine letzte Nacht wollen Aki und Hiro in ihrer gemeinsamen Wohnung in Tokio zusammen sein, bevor ihre Wege sich endgültig trennen.
*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.
»Vilnius Poker« von Ričardas Gavelis ist der große litauische Roman über die sowjetische Okkupation und was sie im Inneren der Menschen angerichtet hatVytautas Vargalys wurde vor der sowjetischen Besatzung Litauens geboren, avancierte zum Freiheitskämpfer, wurde daraufhin gefoltert und in ein Arbeitslager in Sibirien deportiert.
Akram Aylislis People and Trees is the first major work in a long, illustrious literary career by the only contemporary writer from Azerbaijan to occupy a significant place on the world stage.
A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance.
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE"e;The Icelandic Dickens"e; Irish Examiner"e;Stef nsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy"e; EILEEN BATTERSBY, T.
The uplifting new cat novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Travelling Cat Chronicles'Quirky and life-enhancing' THE TIMES Biggest Books of the Autumn _____________________Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives.
Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in France in 1977, The Desert tells the story of al-Mammi, a young exiled prince of a now-destroyed Jewish kingdom in southern Morocco in the late fourteenth century.
Kim Hyesoons Virtuosität liegt in ihrer Fähigkeit, einzigartige poetische, überraschende und doch zugängliche Bilder zu schaffen und sich gleichzeitig tief in der weiblichen Erfahrung und Erzähltradition zu verwurzeln.
