Never has Inspector Montalbano's character - a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food - been more compelling than in Andrea Camilleri's third Montalbano novel, The Snack Thief.
Alexander: Child of a Dream is Valerio Massimo Manfredi's magnificent story of one of history's greatest characters and his quest to conquer the civilized world.
When Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is reluctantly drawn from his holiday, he finds himself entwined in an investigation of two murders before the culprit strikes again.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion opens on the day that the Western Roman Empire collapses finally in 470AD, as the Last Emperor of Rome is encamped and protected by the Nova Invicta Legion.
With an introduction by Ben LernerThe truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, KirkusA powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian.
If baseball is really a metaphor for life, then Kill the mpaya -- Dick Cluster's wonderful collection of Latin American baseball stories -- is an astonishing record of its beauty and coarseness, redemption and tragedy.
Winner of the 2017 Best Translated Book AwardLonglisted for the 2017 National Translation Award"e;The book itself is strange-part Faulknerian meditation on the perversities, including sexual, of degenerate country folk; part Dostoevskian examination of good and evil and God-but in its strangeness lies its rare power, and in the sincerity and seriousness with which the essential questions are posed lies its greatness.
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.
From the 2010 winner of the Best Translated Book Award comes a harrowing, controversial novel about a woman's revenge, Jewish identity, and how to talk about Adolf Hitler in today's world.
"e;Powerful, profound and deeply moving, new fiction by Afghan women writers will expand your mind and elevate your heart"e; ELIF SHAFAK***A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2022***"e;[An] arresting collection .
suddenlyI should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, for some time, seconds, hours, I can do nothing,suddenly I stopVioleta is driving along a lonely stretch of late-night motorway, in the midst of a fearsome storm.
"e;Compassionate and complex"e; Financial Times"e;Stridsberg writes with chilling poise"e; New York Times"e;A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family.
David Lagercrantz's bestselling trilogy continues the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, the crime phenomenon that thrilled tens of millions of readers around the world.
Stressed-out, sleep-deprived and pill-popping Dr Tekla Berg is as unusual a central character as you will find"e; Irish Independent"e;Tekla is a terrific character"e; Literary Review"e;Tekla Berg is a brilliant character"e; Susi Holliday"e;A memorable protagonist"e; Imran Mahmood"e;Tekla is a scalpel-sharp character"e; Jens LapidusA woman is found wandering the corridors of Nobel Hospital in Stockholm, accompanied by a young boy.
From multi-million copy bestselling authors Giacometti & Ravenne comes a Nazi spy thriller for fans of Dan Brown, Steve Berry and Wilbur Smith"e;I couldn't put it down .
Nach dem TikTok-Hit »The Unhoneymooners« ist das SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Erfolgsduo Christina Lauren endlich mit einer neuen, sommerlich prickelnden RomCom zurück!