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Wo Licht ist

Moss, Sarah / Seifert, Nicole
Wo Licht ist
»Dieser Roman ist ein Spiegel der weiblichen Seele.« The Times Manchester, Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts: Ally ist die Tochter von Eltern, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten: der Vater, Alfred Moberley, ein bekannter Maler, warmherzig, sinnlich und mit einem unbestechlichen Blick für das Schöne, die Mutter, Elizabeth, eine unbeugsame Christin, die sich entschlossen für die Rechte von Armen und Außenseitern einsetzt - sich selbst jedoch k...

CHF 30.50

Names for the Sea

Moss, Sarah
Names for the Sea
Paperback edition of Moss' compelling account of her extraordinary year living in Iceland, the year of the volcanic eruption and bank crashes. Steering clear of the usual traveller's cliches, it gives an honest insight into what it's like to uproot your family and your life and move to a country well-known for its insular nature.

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Sommerhelle Nächte

Moss, Sarah / Seifert, Nicole
Sommerhelle Nächte
Was ist das für ein Land, in dessen Supermärkten man vergeblich nach frischem Gemüse sucht, dafür aber auf abgepacktes Walfleisch stößt? In dem man Waffen mit an Bord eines Flugzeugs nehmen darf (und sogar fünf Kilo Munition, solange diese in einer anderen Tasche stecken)? In dem das Verkehrsamt ein sagenhaftes unsichtbares Volk befragt, bevor es den Verlauf einer neuen Straße plant? Die Antwort lautet: Island. In dem Jahr, als ganz Europa auf...

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Schlaflos

Moss, Sarah / Seifert, Nicole
Schlaflos
Eine karge Insel im Westen Schottlands, ständige Stromausfälle und eine unsichere Telefonverbindung. Ein Zweijähriger, der die Nächte zum Tag macht, und ein Siebenjähriger, der die Tage damit verbringt, sich die originellsten Versionen des Weltuntergangs auszumalen. Dazu ein Ehemann, der einer in den Klippen heimischen Papageientaucherkolonie mehr Zeit widmet als seiner Familie: Unter diesen nicht gerade idealen Bedingungen versucht die Histor...

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Signs for Lost Children

Moss, Sarah
Signs for Lost Children
Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics of mental health, Tom navigates the social and professional nuances of late 19th century Japan. With her unique blend of emotional insight and intellectual profundity, Sarah Mos...

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Bodies of Light

Moss, Sarah
Bodies of Light
From the acclaimed author of Night Waking comes this beautiful and nuanced historical novel about maternal failures, sibling affection and the everyday savagery of family

CHF 25.90

Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland

Moss, Sarah
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
A memoir of a family's year living in Reykjavik that "captures the fierce beauty of the Arctic landscape" (Booklist).Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life in Kent, England.The resulting adventure was shaped by Iceland's e...

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Signs for Lost Children

Moss, Sarah
Signs for Lost Children
In Victorian Cornwall, a doctor risks her marriage to fight for female asylum patients: "One of the most memorable heroines of recent fiction " (The Times, London).Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize for Historical Fiction>Horrified by the brutal attitudes of male doctors and nurses toward their female patients, Ally plunges into the institutional politics of women's mental health at a time when madness is only just being imagined as treat...

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The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Explora...

Moss, Sarah
The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration
This thought-provoking examination of the most influential and popular accounts of polar exploration--from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to expeditions led by such famous explorers as Ernest Shackleton, Richard Byrd, and Roald Amundsen--emphasizes themes of endurance, greed, obsession, and self-sacrifice in tales that have captured the popular imagination for centuries. The stories that consider the life-threatening risks of polar...

CHF 34.90

The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Explora...

Moss, Sarah
The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration
This thought-provoking examination of the most influential and popular accounts of polar exploration--from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to expeditions led by such famous explorers as Ernest Shackleton, Richard Byrd, and Roald Amundsen--emphasizes themes of endurance, greed, obsession, and self-sacrifice. With tales that have captured the popular imagination for centuries, these stories consider the life-threatening risks of polar...

CHF 21.50