World Literature – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Meg Wingerter
The Silence that Remains

The famine that decimated Annushka's village officially never happened. Since she was a child, she's kept quiet about what she saw in an implicit bargain with the Soviet regime: behave, and you might live…

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Aoko Matsuda,
The Woman Dies

Tales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are"Piercing and sometimes surreal... Matsuda shines."--Publishers We…

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Anthony Passeron,
Sleeping Children

An intimate, captivating first novel that tells the story of a family in southern France whose lives are intertwined with the history of the AIDS crisis-and with the forgotten French doctors who are among…

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Mathias Enard,
The Deserters

A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness-he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, …

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Inger Christensen,
Natalja's Stories

Known primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark's most distinguished and original authors. Natalja's Stories , modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron , takes an usual app…

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Matthew K Isaac
Broken Chains

Broken Chains is a powerful historical love story about Sam, a Syrian Christian, and Devi, a Dalit woman (an Untouchable) from Kerala. Together, Sam and Devi defy India's entrenched caste and religious bo…

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Claire Baglin,
On the Clock

Claire Baglin's On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the 20-year-o…

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Carmen Laforet,
The New Woman

Carmen Laforet's first novel, Nada , written when she was just 23, won the Nadal Prize, establishing Laforet as one of the greatest writers of post-war Spanish literature. She went on to win the Menorca P…

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Emmelie Prophète,
Cécé

"The best book on Haiti in a very long time . . . powerful, spot on, likely the best written." ---Dany LaferrièreAn astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in…

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Monkey New Writing from Japan

For fans of Japanese literature (Haruki Murakami and more) and readers who want to be introduced to exciting new writers.MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of con…

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Diane C McPhail
The French Innkeeper's Daughter

Exiled from her home in rural, 18th century France, a resilient young woman journeys through the forests of Normandy, to the oppressive poverty of pre-Revolutionary Paris, and ultimately to her destiny as…

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Lucy Andrew
A Very Vexing Murder

Harriet Smith investigates...A murder most Austen.A witty debut whodunit that reimagines Harriet Smith, the gullible sidekick of Jane Austen's Emma, as a spitfire con woman, hired to break off an engageme…

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Lucy Andrew
A Very Vexing Murder

Harriet Smith investigates...A murder most Austen.A witty debut whodunit that reimagines Harriet Smith, the gullible sidekick of Jane Austen's Emma, as a spitfire con woman, hired to break off an engageme…

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Yoko Tawada,
Archipelago of the Sun

The Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to…

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Marcel Proust
Swann in Love

A stand-alone novella from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time highlighting love's transformative force and the trap lying beneath: the insidious reach of jealousy.Swann in Love is part of the Macmilla…

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Józef Lobodowski,
The Thickets

This novel is the first part of the Ukrainian Trilogy of Polish poet and novelist Józef Lobodowski. Written between 1955 and 1960, the action of the trilogy plays out, for the most part, in the Kuban area…

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Donal Ryan
The Spinning Heart

Winner of the Irish Book Award Finalist for the Booker PrizeThis "affecting" debut is "reminiscent of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying " as it paints a vivid portrait of a working-cla…

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Mai Ishizawa,
The Place of Shells

In the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of Göttingen is working on a PhD about the iconography …

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Diane C McPhail
Follow the Stars Home

A captivating reimagining of the intrepid woman who -- 8 months pregnant and with a toddler in tow -- braved violent earthquakes and treacherous waters on the first steamboat voyage to conquer the Mississ…

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Lila Cain
The Blackbirds of St. Giles

From the brutal horrors of Jamaican plantations to the teeming streets of 19th century London, through lavish manor houses and across dangerous seas, escaped enslaved siblings survive the American War of …

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