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Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize

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From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. “A triumphant piece of writing…Prose of such luscious elegance…Exhilarating.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car—also borrowed—onto the estate of his youth. B...

Ein vielschichtiges Katz-und-Maus-Spiel, ein Roman über Nostalgie, Leben, Tod und Quantentheorie. Felix Mordaunt, der gerade erst aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wurde, fährt am Haus seiner Kindheit vor. Doch weder das schicke Auto noch der Name, mit dem er sich vorstellt, gehören wirklich ihm. In dem zugigen alten Gutshaus lebt eine neue Familie: die Godleys, Nachkommen des verstorbenen weltberühmten Wissenschaftlers Adam Godley, dessen xisten...

Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it's the victim's older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could...

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A mystery man with a borrowed name, just released from prison, the Godley family, descendants of world-famous scientist Adam Godley, a beautiful woman with an unusual request. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Booker Prize-winning John Banville revisits some of his most memorable figures, in a novel as mischievous as it is brilliantly conceived.

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe returns in award-winning author John Banville's Marlowe-originally published as The Black-Eyed Blonde under the pen name Benjamin Black-the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective."Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room."-Stephen King"It was one of those Tuesday afterno...

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1950s Dublin, in a lock-up garage in the city the body of a young woman is discovered in her car, an apparent suicide. The victim's sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to uncover the truth as it transpires she had been pursuing a thesis on the history of Jews in Ireland.

From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.

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Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it's the victim's older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that...

From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sportscar-also borrowed-onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of ...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coast Don't disturb the dead… On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it's hard at first to tell whether his imagination is ...