40 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

In this timely and explosive novel, an academic’s seemingly mundane midlife crisis takes an alarming turn after his visit to a Greek monastery.It’s February 2019. Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian with a German wife and a troubled nineteen-year-old son, is on his way back from a conference in Norway when he has an unexpected and disturbing experience that completely alters his view of the life that he has been living and the world that sur...

Keine Beschreibung.

Quite simply the most wonderful novel I've read in a very long time...I was literally riveted...I'm in awe of everything about it' Victoria HislopSet just before the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and overshadowed by a crime committed against a young Moroccan immigrant. The stories are narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz piani...

Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinked stories follow ordinary people whose lives will be changed forever.Like Robert Altman's film Short Cuts, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three interconnected stories that are bound by time and place, and by the way characters weave in and out of them. A crime that remains unreported in one story has light shed on it in another. Exploring addict...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Observer, and Sydney Morning Herald. A literary tour de force that traces the real-life love affair of two extraordinary women, recreating the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old wit...

Auf den Tru¿mmern des Ersten Weltkriegs blu¿hen in Europa die Traumwelten. Wer so tief in den Abgrund geschaut hat, sehnt sich nach Freiheit von allen hergebrachten Ordnungen. Das ist das Klima, in dem Claude Cahun und Marcel Moore ihre Kunst und sich selbst inszenieren - provozierend, gegen jede Konformita¿t und jenseits der Geschlechtergrenzen.Die siebzehnja¿hrige Suzanne Malherbe freundet sich kurz vor Beginn des Kriegs mit der etwas ju¿nge...

Keine Beschreibung.

The new novel from a master storyteller.

A moving story of love, difference and defiance' Mail on SundayWhen Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old, meets the brilliant but troubled Lucie in rural Provence at the turn of the twentieth century, the two young women embark on a clandestine love affair. But they soon long for greater freedom. The lovers move to Paris where they recreate themselves entirely, adopting the gender-neutral names Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Before long, they are mixing...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Observer, and Sydney Morning Herald. The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a...

Keine Beschreibung.

A shocking, fascinating novel by the author of The Insult and Divided Kingdom

The electrifying novel from the author of Divided Kingdom and The Insult

Gripping and obsessive novel by the author of The Insult

Moon Beach--place of the dead--where once a year the city observes the Day of the Dead. During one such celebration, two young men from different worlds become the fascinated servants of an entrepreneur of death, whose private passions are intimately entwined with his vocation. "Ghoulish and imaginative . . . ingenious, sardonic and seductive".--New York Times Times Book Review.