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Penny Vincenzi: Die Stunde des Schicksals

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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Per Olov Enquist: Boken om Blanche och Marie

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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Per Olov Enquist: The Story of Blanche and Marie

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2007

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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Per Olov Enquist: The Visit of the Royal Physician

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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Pere Calders Rossinyol: Ronda naval sota la boira

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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Pericles

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004

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Peter Ackroyd: Milton in America

VINTAGE BOOKS, 1997

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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Peter Farrelly: Outside Providence

FABER & FABER, 2001

Outside Providence is a funny, melancholy novel of a young man's coming of age in the 1970s.

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Peter Handke: Langsame Heimkehr

SUHRKAMP VERLAG, 1984

Seit Jahren war Valentin Sorger entfernt von allem, was sich unter dem Begriff >Heimat< oder >Familie< verstehen läßt.

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Peter Handke: Wunschloses Unglück

SUHRKAMP, 2017

Unter der Rubrik Vermischtesstand in der Sonntagsausgabe der Kärntner Volkszeitung folgendes: ›In der Nacht zum Samstag verübte eine 51jährige Hausfrau aus A. (Gemeinde G.) Selbstmord durch Einnehmen einer Überdosis von Schlaftabletten.

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Peter Härtling: Krücke

GULLIVER, 2000

Der große Krieg ist zu Ende. Flüchtlingstrecks irren durch das Land. Kinder gehen verloren. Auch der neunjährige Thomas verliert auf dem Transport aus der CSSR seine Mutter. In seiner Not schließt er sich einem Kriegsinvaliden an, "Krücke" genannt.

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Peter Mayle: A Year in Provence

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000

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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Peter Mayle: Toujours Provence

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2001

A second enjoyable helping of rural life in France from the author of A Year in Provence.

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Peter Stamm: Agnes

FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2016

Im überheizten Lesesaal der Public Library in Chicago wechseln sie die ersten Blicke, bei einem Kaffee die ersten Worte.

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-30% Peter Stamm: Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt

Peter Stamm: Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt

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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Philip Pullman: Grimm Tales for Young and Old

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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Philip Roth: American Pastoral

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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Philip Roth: Deception

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2006

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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Philip Roth: Der menschliche Makel

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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Philip Roth: Everyman

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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Philip Roth: My Life as a Man

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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Philip Roth: Nemesis

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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Philip Roth: Operation Shylock - A Confession

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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Philip Roth: Our Gang

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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Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint

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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Philip Roth: Sabbath's Theater

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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Philip Roth: The Anatomy Lesson

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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Philip Roth: The Breast

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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Philip Roth: The Counterlife

RANDOM HOUSE, 2005

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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Philip Roth: The Dying Animal

RANDOM HOUSE, 2006

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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Philip Roth: The Ghost Writer

RANDOM HOUSE, 2005

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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Philip Roth: The Human Stain

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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Philip Roth: The Plot Against America

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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Philip Roth: The Prague Orgy

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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Philip Roth: The Professor of Desire

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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Philip Roth: When She Was Good

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016

When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail.

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Philip Roth: Zuckerman Unbound

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight.

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Philippe Besson: Arrete avec tes mensonges

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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Philippe Claudel: La petite fille de Monsieur Linh

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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Pierre Lemaitre: Au revoir lá-haut

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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Poljarinov Aleksej Valerevich: Rif

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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Primo Levi: Si c'est un homme

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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Rachel Cusk: Kudos (Outline Trilogy Book 3)

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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Rachel Cusk: Outline (Outline Trilogy Book 1)

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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Rachel Cusk: Second Place

FABER & FABER, 2022

A woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives.

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Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio: El Jarama

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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Ralf Rothmann: Feuer brennt nicht

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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Ralf Rothmann: Im Frühling sterben

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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Ralf Rothmann: Junges Licht

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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Raymond Carver: Cathedral

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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Raymond Carver: Elephant

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2009

A collection of the last seven stories Raymond Carver wrote before his death.

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Raymond Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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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Raymond Carver: Where I'm Calling From

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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Raymond Carver:Short Cuts: Selected Stories

VINTAGE BOOKS, 1993

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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Reader, I Married Him

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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Rebecca Kauffman: The Gunners

PROFILE BOOKS, 2019

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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Rebecca Watson: little scratch

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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Reclams Weihnachtsbuch

RECLAM, 2023

Reclams weihnachtlicher Klassiker als Geschenkbuch mit Goldfolienprägung

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Reclams Winterbuch

RECLAM, 2023

Ein winterlicher Leseschatz als Geschenkbuch mit Goldfolienprägung

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Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls

PENGUIN BOOKS (USA), 1994

The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically.

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Reinaldo Arenas: Mona and Other Tales

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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Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2003

This is part a story of adventure, freedom and flight as well as an inspirational, thought-provoking book.

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Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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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Richard Russo: Empire Falls

RANDOM HOUSE, 2002

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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Richard Russo: Mohawk

RANDOM HOUSE, 2001

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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Richard Russo: The Risk Pool

RANDOM HOUSE, 1998

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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Richard Yates: Cold Spring Harbor

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2008

Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house.

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Richard Yates: Disturbing the Peace

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2008

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.

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