Liter ature
Idiopathy Byers S
Childhood Of Jesus Coetzee J
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Written with dazzling flair and deep insight and veering from scathing satire to a moving account of love and loneliness, IDIOPATHY neatly skewers the tangled relationships and unhinged narcissism of a self-obsessed generation.
A man and a boy arrive in a new land. The man catches sight of a woman he is certain is the boy's mother, and persuades her to assume the role. The boy is an exceptional child, but the school authorities insist he be sent to a special school far away, so the trio flees across the mountains. This is a profound, beautiful and surprising novel from Booker Prize and Nobel Prize winner, J.M....
ISBN: 9780007412105 € 12,95 Januari
Uitgever: Harper Collins UK Genre: Fict Lit.
ISBN: 9780099581550 € 10,95 Januari
Uitgever: Arrow Genre: Fict Lit.
Luminaries Catton E
Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Delijani S
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It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the...
Deep in Tehran's Evin Prison, Azar gives birth to a baby girl. Corridors away, Amir is making a bracelet out of date stones. He hopes that one day his daughter will hold it in her hands. As a camera shutter closes, three children are fixed in time. These children cannot remember their mothers' faces, but their mothers will treasure the photos, daring to imagine the life that goes on beyond...
Uitgever: Granta
Uitgever: Orion
Genre: Fict Lit.
Genre: Fict Lit.
Investigation Claudel P
Cat, A Hat, And A Piece Of String Harris J
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The Investigator is despatched to a provincial town to investigate a disturbing spate of suicides among the employees of The Firm. But from the moment he steps off the train, he finds that everything is against him, from the hostile weather to the town's bewildering inhabitants. Cold, hungry and humiliated, always one step behind, he finds himself in a recurring nightmare that waking cannot...
From the bestselling author of CHOCOLAT comes a collection of short stories showcasing an exceptional ability for storytelling. Sensuous, wicked, mischievous and wry, here are tales that combine the everyday with the unexpected. From the house where it's Christmas all year round to a ghost who lives on a Twitter timeline, these stories will ensnare and delight with their variety and...
Uitgever: Quercus
Uitgever: Transworld
Genre: Fict Lit.
Genre: Fict Lit.
Manuscript Found In Accra Coelho P
Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules Ingelman-Sundberg C
ISBN: 9781847084323 € 11,95 Januari
ISBN: 9780857051578 € 11,95 Januari
ISBN: 9780007514250 € 8,95 Januari July 14, 1099. The city of Accra awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the gates. There, within the city walls, men and women of every age have gathered to hear the words of a mysterious man known only as the Copt. Now, centuries later, the manuscript containing the Copt's extraordinary insights on courage, solitude, loyalty and loss has been unearthed from a cave in Cairo. Uitgever: Harper Collins UK Genre: Fict Lit.
ISBN: 9781780226927 € 10,95 Januari
ISBN: 9780552778794 € 10,95 Januari
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ISBN: 9781447250616 € 11,95 Januari 79-year-old Martha Anderson, with the aid of her Zimmer frame, is robbing a bank. Except all the cashier can see is a little old lady. So Martha is sent back to her atrocious care home. But Martha and her four old friends are tired of all the rules imposed upon them and decide to rebel, causing uproar at the home with their antics. They resolve to stand up for old aged pensioners everywhere,... Uitgever: Pan Genre: Fict Lit.
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