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Janne Teller waagt zich aan een indringend gedachte-experiment: ze laat ons voelen hoe het is om een oorlogsvluchteling te zijn - door een simpele wisseling van perspectief.

A feel-good novel from a Dutch author, about old friends who find their way back to each other. Set in the legendary Mont Ventoux, the scene of many classic cycling races through the years, this will particularly appeal to cycling fans.

In the 25th year of the US-Afghan War, two hundred US soldiers are massacred. Amongst the growing number of discarded veterans, rumours circulate that one soldier made it out alive. When British journalist John Fox finally tracks down Captain Tanner Jackson, he hears an astonishing tale of violence, cover-ups and revenge-but also of enduring love. Part anti-war fable, part page-turning dystopian adventure, The Afghan Vampires Book Club will re...

1980s Sweden. An Iranian family has reached safety after years in hiding. But when the parents' visions of a new life in the northern land of freedom disintegrate in the face of harsh reality, it is their daughter who must carry the family's dreams on her narrow shoulders. She reaches the top, fighting racism and prejudice along the way. But behind this perfect façade, she slowly loses control over both her health and happiness. Is this really...

The Women of Lazarus is a mesmerizing story of love, loss and human genius. The story starts just after the Russian Revolution, when the highly gifted student Lazar Lindt arrives in Moscow carrying with him nothing but lice and a notebook. The Women of Lazarus tells a part of Lazar's life story, following three important women in it: his mentor's wife, his own young wife and their granddaughter. Set against the background of the twentieth cent...

Two doppelgänger exiles-both, curiously, named Tony Hanssen-are on the run from the lies and deceit that have defined their lives. When they accidentally meet up, they realise that each could hold the solution to the other's problems. An allegory of the global economic crisis and of the identity conflict of modern man, Fortunate Slaves is a moral and picaresque novel that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. Just how far will desperate ...

Rome, early nineties. A writer in his thirties, both cynical and naive, finds work in an archive, the Pier Paolo Pasolini Foundation, where he meets a shrewish old woman called Laura Betti. The encounter with the mad heroine of this book, a spiritual heir of the Friulian poet, is an encounter with Pasolini himself. Meanwhile, a hidden story in Petrolio, the unfinished novel by Pasolini, becomes a guide to the disenchantment of our time and the...

Mary of Kivu has a reputation as a miraculous healer. Queues of sick people wait outside her home near the Congolese-Rwandan border in Central Africa. Keith Masterson, an American journalist, is determined to unravel the story of this mysterious woman, hoping to find something to add color to his reports on war, violence, and poverty. Against all odds, she decides to see him and tells him a story she has told no-one before. During these meetin...

Charlotte Brontë, a parson's daughter from Yorkshire, longs for adventure. She conceives the idea of going abroad to study languages and persuades her sister Emily to accompany her to Brussels. This Catholic yet worldly capital comes as quite a culture shock to the Brontë sisters. In Madame Heger's elegant boarding house, amongst many wealthy and spoilt young ladies, Charlotte and Emily try to stay true to themselves. But then Charlotte falls ...

HAH traces the spiritual journey of a young woman mourning the loss of her father and his ideals. Compact, relentlessy creative, crackling like storms, each story is a powerful meditation on the act of mourning, conjuring up arresting imagery, striking dramatically different moods-anger, love, frustration, whimsy, tenderness and longing. It is a magical book about the life-changing revelations that happen to us when we grieve, a celebration of...

A novel about a woman whose husband and his lover are killed in a car crash. But she's not looking for consolation, she's looking for an enemy. With appeal to fans of A.M. Homes and Haruki Murakami.

HAH traces the spiritual journey of a young woman mourning the loss of her father and his ideals. Compact, relentlessy creative, crackling like storms, each story is a powerful meditation on the act of mourning, conjuring up arresting imagery, striking dramatically different moods-anger, love, frustration, whimsy, tenderness and longing. It is a magical book about the life-changing revelations that happen to us when we grieve, a celebration of...

A debut novel from a Dutch author, this is the story of a disturbed relationship between a mother and a son, set on a remote island near Scotland.

A new translation of The Qu'ran from an Iranian exile who has been living in the Netherlands since 1988. Makes the Islamic Holy Book accessible to non-Arabic readers. Adolah is also the author of the novel "The House Of The Mosque".

Seasons come and go in provincial Blaashoek, where the town's superficial harmony is upended by the arrival of a wind park-a blessing for some, a curse for others. The irritating hum of the turbines keeps butcher Herman Bracke, known far and wide for his delicious 'summer paté', awake at night. He falls prey to a deadly fatigue and gradually loses control over his work, setting off a series of blood-curdling events, with fatal consequences for...

Polar explorer, author and philosopher Erling Kagge was the first person ever to walk alone to the South Pole and to surmount the 'three poles': North, South ant the summit of the Mount Everest. Now he explores New York like never before-underground. Along with Steve Duncan, he descends into the network of sewers, subways and water tunnels that the city has to offer-all the way from The Bronx via Manhattan to the Atlantic Ocean. The account o...

A retelling of the life of the prophet Mohammed, which portrays him as a human being and a man with dreams. The reader is granted a contemporary and vivid image of the period in which he lived, and how he wanted to save Mecca from moral decay.

When Lan comes home to Shanghai after ten years in Europe, to try and locate her biological parents, everyone who could help is evasive. Her only clue is cricket fighting-a millennium-old Chinese pastime turned gambling racket where the nouveaux riches meet the underworld by night. The deeper she digs into her own mystery, the more obscure and sinister it becomes. The truth takes her by surprise: the past is unspeakably worse than she thought-...

Muna, a young Indian orphan, is working in a carpet factory in Bombay. She cannot forget about her sister Sita, from whom she was separated. Sita, who lives in an orphanage in the same city, doesn't remember her older sister and dreams about having a real family and finding happiness. Meanwhile, eight-year-old Solomon lives in Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia. When the revolution breaks out, he is sent to Cuba by boat on his own, together with hundred...

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