In late October 2006, one of the most spectacular kidnapping cases of the younger past had come to end, when Natascha Kampusch freed herself after being held captive in a hidden cellar (near Vienna, Austria) for more than eight years.
Orly Castel-Bloom, geboren 1960 in Tel Aviv als Kind von Einwanderern aus Ägypten, studierte Film an der Universität Tel Aviv, wo sie nach längeren Aufenthalten in Italien und Frankreich lebt.
'The most dazzling, most unsettling, most oh-my-God-listen-up novel you'll read this year' The Washington PostA dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment - a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writerLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 2015Born and raised in the heart of old Dixie, D'aron Davenport is a small-town fish floundering in the depths of a large, hyper-liberal pond of UC Berkeley.
Lying on a riverbank on a lazy summer s afternoon 23rd June 2016, to be precise Alice spots a flustered-looking white rabbit called Dave calling for a referendum.
'Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country' - New York Times Book ReviewSome get all the luck but not Eugene Debs Hartke.
_________________________________________'If comedy is your thing, it's hard to match PG Wodehouse and his classic characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster for hilarious farce.
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**'Exuberant and satirical: this is an angry comedy about Zia's brutal legacy to Pakistan' ObserverThere is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down.
In einer Parodie erobert die frustrierte Schweiz, nachdem ein Hustenvirus die halbe Welt lahmlegt, die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, wie bei einer feindlichen Firmenübernahme.
Der sonst so eintönige Alltag einer Arztpraxis wird humorvoll beleuchtet und das Zusammenspiel verschiedener Charaktere in kuriosen Situationen gezeigt.
'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday TelegraphAt sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence.
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic.
Boris Johnson's first novel, Seventy-Two Virgins is a no-holds-barred political satire, a comic romp peopled with a gallery of grotesques which lampoons both the absurdities and the extremes of modern society.
'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists.
Seit seiner Ankunft auf dem Archipel Bañola Guartos, wo er versehentlich den Koffer einer Frau in Besitz nimmt, ist sich Michel sicher, ein Mädchen zu sein.
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality.
'Good-hearted and brutal at the same time, The Milkman in the Night is a complex, unsettling mixture of bleakness and warmth' Sunday TimesRead this eccentric epic from the author of cult classic Death and the PenguinSemyon is disturbed.
From the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker, the short stories in 'Love Your Enemies' present a loving depiction of the beautiful, the grotesque and the utterly bizarre in the lives of overlooked suburban Britons.
First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.
A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about life behind the scenes in the film business, and how to survive when your greatest fantasy comes true and threatens to wreck your perfectly ordinary life.
'An existential thriller written in prose that points the way to the future' Zadie Smith'Fight Club for girls'VogueLONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEA lives with B.
Der Vollidiot ist reif für die Insel – Tommy Jaud trifft Bill BrysonSechs Wochen Irland im Luxushotel, literweise Guinness, mindestens drei willige Stipendiatinnen aus Spanien und endlich mal keine Sorgen um die prekäre Künstlerexistenz?
Después de la muerte de su padre y tras caerse de la bicicleta, Doppler decide abandonar su hogar en Oslo, su trabajo, a sus hijos y a su esposa embarazada, y vivir una vida solitaria en el bosque a las afueras de la ciudad.
Tabulos, aber niveauvoll: Lara Ermer hat ein im Wortsinne offenes Buch über Body Positivity und sexuelle Mythen in Zeiten ständiger Selbstoptimierung geschrieben.
Joey hat genug davon, an den immergleichen Bewerbungsschreiben zu sitzen, seine eigenen Fehler zu kaschieren und Lügen aufzutischen, die er nicht einmal selbst glauben möchte.
