*LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2025** AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 *'A spellbinding achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES'Poignant and often painfully comic' OBSERVER'I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it' KHALED HOSSEINISaba's father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia.
In her award-winning novel, Eyes of the Sky, Rayda Jacobs explores the complex and interconnected lives of the settlers and the enslaved in eighteenth century South Africa.
“Rodenberg inventively uses Bonaparte’s own unfinished novel to tell the story of the despot’s rise to power, which she juxtaposes against the story of his last love affair.
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.
The Cantor's Daughter is the compelling new collection from Oregon Book Award Winner and recipient of the GLCA's New Writers Award for 2005, Scott Nadelson.
'These stories draw us into the many worlds of Carol Patterson's imagination and experience, and we immediately become invested, as readers, in the characters and the dilemmas they face.
This riverrun edition of Turgenev's most accomplished stories contains A Nest of Gentlefolk, A Quiet Backwater, First Love, and A Lear of the Steppes - the defining masterpieces of his career.
While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novelone equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself.
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.
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.
Gott hassen ist ein kompromissloser, nachdenklicher, spielerischer und zutiefst faszinierender Roman über Black Metal und weiß getünchte Idylle, über Untergrundbewegungen, Magie und Rebellion.
Eine letzte Reise in die magische Erzählwelt von Carlos Ruiz ZafónDer Friedhof der vergessenen Bücher ist der geheimnisvolle Ort, um den das gesamte Erzähluniversum von Carlos Ruiz Zafón kreist: Eine tief unter Barcelona verborgene Bibliothek, in der die Bücher darauf warten, ihre Seele an ihren Leser weiterzugeben.
This collection bristles and hums with the rugged resilience one encounters in southern and Appalachian fiction where ghosts of loved ones and livestock alike haunt an underworld of lonely trails.
