Set against the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard tells the story of Ben Isaac, a blond-haired, blue-eyed American youth living with his father at the American consulate in Yokohama.
'One of the great novels of the 20th century' ObserverIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history.
Opulent, farbenprächtig, hochspannend und zutiefst menschlichDer historische Roman »Das Reich der Mitte« von Bestseller-Autor Edward Rutherfurd entführt ins chinesische Kaiserreich des 19.
A feminist pioneer, writer, and patron of the arts and literature in Buenos Aires, Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979) was a larger-than-life personality of legendary vitality.
The first translation of The Countess von Rudolstadt in more than a century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece.
The latest book in the internationally bestselling Erast Fandorin Mysteries series'Readers can expect prime Akunin - ingenious, twisty, exotic' Daily Mail Crimea, 1914.
Eine große europäisch-jüdische Familiensaga – eine schillernde Geschichte über Liebe und die befreiende Kraft der HoffnungKopenhagen zwischen den Weltkriegen: Die politischen Entwicklungen der späten 1930er Jahre stehen unmittelbar bevor, doch noch ist die Wohnung der Koppelmans voller Trubel, Verwandter, Gespräche und Musik.
Following the international success of Die, My Love (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018), Ariana Harwicz again takes us into the darkest recesses of the imagination with this delirious, furious account of a mother and daughter bound by chaos as much as love.
THE NEW AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MOUNTAIN"e;Can be compared (with no fear of hyperbole) to Stephen King and Jo Nesb "e; - Massimo Vincenz, La Repubblica.
When the Menorah Fades is a fictionalized account of the town of Hadiach, Ukraine, a small Jewish community destroyed by Nazi occupation during World War II.
CBC BOOKS CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023Peter Greenaway meets Angela Carter: a Gothic tale of secrets and revengeWhen the curtain rises on Malmaison, it reveals a once-enchanting estate, quietly falling into darkness and ruin, and at the heart of it, a father, one of a long line of fathers who have flourished at the expense of those around them.
Mentioned in the same breath as The Little Prince, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Alchemist,Serdar zkan s enchanting debut novel The Missing Rose has the power to change your life.
Finalist, Prix Jan Michalski de Litterature 2023Shortlisted, EBRD Literature Prize 2022In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the interaction between tradition and modernity, myth and reality.
A pulpy tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the perfect woman: "e;Effortlessly cool and slyly spiky, Despentes probes the dynamics of fame, beauty, and female competition, putting her finger on the pulse of what it's like to wear the daily drag of femininityand then pressing down, slowly and calmly, right where it hurts"e; (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine).
Experience a major new literary universe in the making'I read The Morning Star compulsively and stayed awake all night after finishing it' Brandon TaylorNine lives will be forever changed .
Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed.
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.
The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia’s acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975—running a magazine, working as a publisher, and encountering the literary stars among whom he would soon take his place: Borges, Puig, Roa Bastos, Piñera.
Sony Labou Tansi's surreal portrait of a despised and incompetent regime is a biting, burlesque fable, incisive in its description of postcolonial life.
A free sampler containing extracts from the very best fiction from around the world, from million copy international bestsellers to the most exciting debut fiction in 2013Be chilled with our internationally bestselling crime thrillers:The Hypnotist by Lars KeplerSorry by Zoran Drvenkar.
WINNER OF THE 2011 YOUNG ADULT CATEGORY IN THE GERMAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AWARDA beautifully written, darkly funny coming-of-age story from an award-winning, bestselling German authorMike Klingenberg isn t exactly one of the cool kids at his school.
