Wer Peru literarisch kennenlernen will, muss Arguedas lesen: Sein Meisterwerk "Die tiefen Flüsse" ist ein interkultureller Bildungsroman, ebenso indianisch wie westlich geprägt.
An early gem from the creator of the Kurt Wallander series, charting the life of a principled man through tragedy, heartbreak, true love and the battle for a nation's soul.
The NEXT irresistibly uplifting read for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD set in a magical laundryThe #1 International word-of-mouth bestsellerHeartwarming and inspirational, MARIGOLD MIND LAUNDRY will remind you there is always a reason to feel positive'A life-changing novel' ***** reader review'A book that makes me reflect on my life' *****'Even better when you read it with a loved one' *****'I took leave from work because I needed to finish it in one sitting' *****_______________________We will wash away your pain and iron away any creases in your heart.
Eight glorious stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, and hope and rejection from the acclaimed actor and ';supremely gifted writer' (The Sunday Times, London) Rupert Everett.
One of the defining texts of twentieth-century Catalan fiction, written by one of its most innovative and cherished writers, Salvador Espriu's Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a collection of thirty-four short stories in which the twists and turns of action, character, and place are as winding and sumptuous as the legendary maze of its title.
**A Guardian book to look out for in 2024**'An exceptional book: a meditation on family; an interrogation of movement and borders; a reflection on how someone can become separated from their own personal history; and an argument that it is never too late to reconnect with what was lost' SALLY HAYDEN'A compelling story from a gifted storyteller In a moment where refugees are often talked about but rarely heard from, her voice breaks through' GARY YOUNGEA staggering investigation into the costs and consequences of displacement, from a young woman uniquely placed to explore the refugee experience and its aftershocksIn 2015, Aamna Mohdin travelled to Calais to report from the frontlines of the refugee crisis.
"e;Silver Pitchers: and Independence, a Centennial Love Story"e; is a 1888 collection of short stories by written by American author Louisa May Alcott.
A science fiction and tech-vision anthology about the coming era of transparency in the Information AgeDavid Brin, Hugo award-winning author of The Uplift War, presents Chasing Shadows, a collection of short stories and essays by other science fiction luminaries.
Als Elyssa, Gründerin und Königin von Karthago, auf eine Gruppe Schiffbrüchige trifft, erkennt sie im trojanischen Helden Aeneas, der aus seiner Heimat fliehen musste, ihr eigenes Schicksal.
VOLUME ONE OF TWO'A huge, eye-opening, mind-blowing surprise' Lisa Tuttle, Guardian A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from across the globeIn The Big Book of Cyberpunk, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together over a hundred stories from more than twenty-five different countries.
One of France's most influential detective fiction authors, Gatson Leroux's most chilling and tragic tales of gothic horror are collected in this volume, including the masterful The Phantom of the Opera.
In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment.
A stunning collection of new fiction previously published as The Decameron Project and originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic first spread across the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kushner, Colm Tibn, Charles Yu, and more.
Masterly new fiction from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureA startling new work: ten fictions, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world.
“Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”.
These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, war and its aftershocks prominent among them, where the reality is often much more surreal than fiction.
Komik und Tragik der Beziehungen zwischen den Geschlechtern bilden den Reiz in den Erzählungen von Irene Prugger, die in "Nackte Helden und andere Geschichten von Frauen" versammelt sind; aber damit ist das Reservoir bei weitem nicht ausgeschöpft: Hier paaren sich nicht bloß Geschlechter, sondern Ironie und Gefühl, Witz und Aberwitz, Alltag mit ganz und gar nicht Alltäglichem, hier prallen Fantasie und Wirklichkeit aufeinander.
Der große amerikanische Romanautor Richard Powers erzählt in »Klang der Zeit« eine Geschichte voll Anmut und Schönheit über eine Familie mit zwei Hautfarben und einer Leidenschaft: der Musik.
This collection of nine Lost Tribe of the Sith stories is for fans of the NewYork Times bestselling Fate of the Jedi series, as it features the origin storyof the tribe of Sith that play such a crucial role in those novels.
Love as violence, love as a curse, love as redemption, as suffering, as wisdom, as innocence, as delusion each story takes place on the night of 19 March 1929 and a character tries to understand or express love from his or her perspective: as dancer, lawyer, astronomer, mathematician, artist, actor, doctor, mirror-maker.
This new edition of Dracula, offering the complete text of the original book with more than 50 original illustrations in the form of horizontal and vertical panels, spot illustrations, and ornate borders by Becky Cloonan, will delight Dracula fans.
An autobiographical novel that takes a life to pieces, putting forward not a coherent, straightforward narrative, but a series of dazzling images ranging from the ordinary to the unbelievable, fished from the depths of the author's memory as well as from the stream of his day-to-day life as an adult author.
Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today.
