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GOLDMANN,WILHELM VERLAG, 2018
London 1953. Nach den Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist in das Leben der Lyttons endlich wieder eine gewisse Normalität zurückgekehrt.
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GOLDMANN,WILHELM VERLAG, 2018
London 1953. Nach den Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist in das Leben der Lyttons endlich wieder eine gewisse Normalität zurückgekehrt.
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NORSTEDTS, 2014
Kring fyra fantastiska gestalter i förra sekelskiftets Paris väver P O Enquist en roman om den möjliga och den omöjliga kärleken. I centrum star Blanche Wittman, en gang världens mest kända mentalpatient och Marie Curie, dubbel nobelpristagare.
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In 1878, Blanche Wittman was committed to Salpetriere Hospital as an hysteric and placed in the care of the famous M. Charcot, who regularly displayed her, in a cataleptic state, before a public audience.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2003
It is the 1760s, the height of the Enlightenment. The young King of Denmark, Christian VII, is a half-wit. His queen, the English princess Caroline Mathilde, has fallen in love with his most trusted advisor,the court physician Struensee.
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RBA LIBROS, 2009
El Panoramic, vaixell de gran calat per al transport de carrega i de passatge, pateix una avaria. L'embarcació queda enganxada en un bucle cobert d'una boira permanent, sense possibilitat aparent de rescat.
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EDUCAULA, 2013
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What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death?
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Outside Providence is a funny, melancholy novel of a young man's coming of age in the 1970s.
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Seit Jahren war Valentin Sorger entfernt von allem, was sich unter dem Begriff >Heimat< oder >Familie< verstehen läßt.
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GULLIVER, 2000
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Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bestselling, much-loved account of 'A Year In Provence'.
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A second enjoyable helping of rural life in France from the author of A Year in Provence.
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Im überheizten Lesesaal der Public Library in Chicago wechseln sie die ersten Blicke, bei einem Kaffee die ersten Worte.
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FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2018
Christoph verabredet sich in Stockholm mit der viel jüngeren Lena. Er erzählt ihr, dass er vor zwanzig Jahren eine Frau geliebt habe, die ihr ähnlich, ja, die ihr gleich war.
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SUHRKAMP, 2004
Die Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek hat sich längst einen Namen gemacht. Als Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium präsentiert der Suhrkamp Verlag diese Zusammenarbeit mit dem Schulbuchverlag Cornelsen.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2013
In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 1998
Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his NEwark high school, who grows up in the booming post-war years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock.
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A famous writer, named Philip, and his mistress meet in a room without a bed. They talk, they play games with each other, they have sex, they tell lies.
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ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2018
Im Jahr 1998, als Amerika sich angesichts der drohenden Amtsenthebung seines Präsidenten einer Ekstase der Scheinheiligkeit hingibt,...
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2007
Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, to his old age,...
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2006
Philip Roth’s debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2009
It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2005
A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2011
Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
What if a look-alike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In his extraordinary new book, his most ingenious and original work since The Counterlife, Phillip Roth confronts his double,...
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth show us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn’t have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defence.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 1999
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 1996
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2007
Shop Talk concludes with Roth's essay 'Rereading Saul Bellow', a vivid presentation of Bellow's achievement and, in the spirit of this collection, very much a colleague's reading.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 1995
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2006
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed.
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The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies.
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No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex.'
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The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse...
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2005
Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with a woman half his age. And it's not the secret of his alleged racism, which provoked the college witchhunt that cost him his job.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2005
In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2006
The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, completes the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2000
As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be?or how damning.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight.
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JULLIARD, 2018
Quand j'étais enfant, ma mere ne cessait de me répéter : " Arrete avec tes mensonges. " J'inventais si bien les histoires, paraît-il, qu'elle ne savait plus démeler le vrai du faux. J'ai fini par en faire un métier, je suis devenu romancier.
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LIVRE DE POCHE, LE, 2016
Monsieur Linh est un vieil homme. Il a quitté son village dévasté par la guerre, n’emportant avec lui qu’une petite valise contenant quelques vetements usagés, une photo jaunie, une poignée de terre de son pays.
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LIVRE DE POCHE, LE, 2011
Le livre qui a inspiré le film INTOUCHABLES
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ALBIN MICHEL, 2013
Sur les ruines du plus grand carnage du XXe siecle, deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés, prennent leur revanche en réalisant une escroquerie aussi spectaculaire qu’amorale.
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ESPASA, 2011
En palabras de la propia autora, ésta es una «crónica oscura» sobre los cinco presidentes de la democracia espanola,...
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EKSMO, 2020
Kira zhivet v zakrytom severnom gorode Sulime, gde mestnye promyshljajut brakonerstvom. Li - v universitetskom kampuse v SSHA, zanimaetsja issledovaniem na styke sovremennogo iskusstva i antropologii.
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POCKET, 1988
On est volontiers persuadé d'avoir lu beaucoup de choses a propos de l'holocauste, on est convaincu d'en savoir au moins autant. Et, convenons-en avec une sincérité égale au sentiment de la honte, quelquefois,...
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FABER & FABER, 2019
A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog.
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FABER & FABER, 2018
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens.
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FABER & FABER, 2022
A woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives.
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FABER & FABER, 2018
In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London.
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TUSQUETS EDITORES, 2016
Martín es un catedrático recluido en un sanatorio mental. Desde allí recuerda que empezó a realizar auténticos viajes en el tiempo desde que, muy joven, intentó suicidarse.
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DEBOLSILLO, 2019
Galardonada con el Premio Nadal y el Premio Nacional de la Crítica, El Jarama constituye uno de los hitos fundamentales de la narrativa espanola del siglo XX.
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SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2010
Ralf Rothmann hat einen Roman über das behutsame Zusammenwachsen von Ost und West und eine Chronik des erotischen Begehrens geschrieben, eine dunkel-glühende Liebesgeschichte.
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SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2016
Im Frühling sterben ist die Geschichte von Walter Urban und Friedrich – »Fiete« – Caroli, zwei siebzehnjährigen Melkern aus Norddeutschland, die im Februar 1945 zwangsrekrutiert werden.
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SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 2006
Ralf Rothmann erzählt in der ihm eigenen, eindringlichen Sprache von den letzten Wochen der Kindheit, ihren leisen Schrecken und dem erhellenden Trost: »Wenn du dich für die Freiheit entschieden hast, kann dir gar nichts passieren. Nie.«
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AUSTRAL, 2022
Una de las mejores novelas sobre la guerra civil.
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Your Second Life Begins When You Realise You Only Have One - the novel that has made over 2 million readers happier.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2009
Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things...
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2009
A collection of the last seven stories Raymond Carver wrote before his death.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2009
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers.
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With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story.
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A movie tie-in edition to the brilliant new film by Robert Altman, based on these nine stories by Carver, "one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
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PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2023
Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel.
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BOROUGH PRESS, 2017
This collection of original stories by today’s finest women writers—including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more.
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The Gunners used to be inseparable. A gang of latchkey kids, they took their name from the doorbell of the abandoned house they played in as children - and drank in as teenagers.
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FABER & FABER, 2021
little scratch is about the coexistence of monotony with our waking, intelligent lives. It is a powerful evocation of how the external and internal aspects of our lives exist in a helix, and what it means to live out the course of a single day consumed b
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RECLAM, 2023
Reclams weihnachtlicher Klassiker als Geschenkbuch mit Goldfolienprägung
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PENGUIN BOOKS (USA), 1994
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001
Mona and Other Tales covers Reinaldo Arenas's entire career: his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile.
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This is part a story of adventure, freedom and flight as well as an inspirational, thought-provoking book.
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SCRIBNER, 2014
This is the story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules…people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015
Richard Hakluyt (c 1552-1616). Hakluyt's Voyages and Discoveries is available in Penguin Classics.
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SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2019
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, the dramatic conclusion in the riveting Broken Road trilogy—a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66.
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Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family.
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Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times.
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The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned.
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