Engelstalige historische romans
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Engelstalige historische romans
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The Forty Rules of Love
The international bestseller from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World* One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..." Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love.So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and his mentor Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is ready to look at her life anew. Compelled to embrace change, she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into a faraway world where faith and doubt are heartbreakingly explored. The Forty Rules of Love is a mesmerising tale of discovery, language, truth and, of course, love itself.'Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love' Metro'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' Daily Telegraph'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' The Times*** PRE-ORDER ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL IN ONE BRIEF MOMENT ALL ETERNITY NOW ***
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New Boy
Shakespeare's Othello is ingeniously transplanted into a high school setting in this taut story about teenage friendship and racial tension. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei knows he needs an ally. Luckily he hits it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again.The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard in this powerful drama of alienation, adolescence and friends torn apart.'A compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue' Daily Express'New Boy, with its angsty teenagers, racial frictions and a magnificently fleshed out antagonist, is a tense and tight read... A heady rollercoaster of emotions' ObserverSHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as you've never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.
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The Iliad
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability" (Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph)-critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, The New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of the first great Homeric epic: The Iliad. In Wilson's hands, this exciting and often horrifying work now gallops at a pace befitting its battle scenes, roaring with the clamour of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors and the anguished cries of dying men. Wilson's unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poem's profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even "complicated", human beings. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homer's poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.
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The Life of Herod the Great
'The Life of Herod The Great – like Hurston herself – is a masterpiece, a miracle, and a marvel. In other words, treasure for the whole world' Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage
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Austerlitz
A special 10th anniversary edition of this novel, widely regarded as one of the greatest works of literature of the last decade.
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A Dictator Calls
One of Europe's most decorated authors... Seasoned fans [of Kadare] will be enthralled by this very personal meditation on the circumstances in which, against the odds, he [Pasternak] still managed to thrive
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Fair Rosaline
The extraordinary feminist retelling of Romeo and Juliet from the point of view of Rosaline, the woman Romeo loved first.
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Little Boy
A hypnotic tale of a Little Boy's life - and the craziness of the century that witnessed it - from one of the last surviving members of the Beat Generation.
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Restless Guests
A Novel from Modern TimesFirst English translation of an 1885 novel by one of the foremost writers of nineteenth-century Germany, examining fragmented communities in the "modern times" of the early Second Empire and resonating with our twenty-first century.
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Orange Line to Forest Hills
Fifteen-year-old Sadie Mae Beckham has grown up knowing the cruelty of racism in the Jim Crow South, but nothing prepares her for the brutal lynching of her father. Determined not to let hatred define her future, Sadie Mae leaves everything she knows behind and travels to Boston, Massachusetts, driven by a single goal: to gain an education and one day become a doctor. In her new high school, Sadie Mae forms an unlikely friendship with two girls, one Black, one white, who share her belief that injustice must be challenged, even when doing so comes at a cost. As the girls navigate peer pressure, family expectations, and quiet hostility in classrooms and summer jobs, their convictions are tested again and again. When relationships across racial lines begin to draw unwanted attention, the friends are forced to confront a society determined to keep them apart. Each choice they make carries consequences, not just for themselves, but for those they care about. Will Sadie Mae hold onto her dream without compromising her values? Can friendship survive in a world built on division? And is moral courage enough to challenge a system designed to punish those who stand against it? Orange Line to Forest Hills is a powerful story of friendship, determination, and the courage to choose what is right in a world shaped by fear and inequality.
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The Female Quixote
or, The Adventures of ArabellaIn Volume II of The Female Quixote, Arabella’s imaginative world collides with reality in ever more dramatic ways. Lennox’s novel is a witty and perceptive exploration of literature, illusion, and society, centred on one of the most original heroines in eighteenth-century fiction.
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The Female Quixote
or, The Adventures of ArabellaVolume I of Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote introduces Arabella, a heroine whose imagination is shaped by French romances. A witty and perceptive classic, the novel explores the power of reading, the nature of desire, and the constraints placed on women in eighteenth-century society.
€ 20,95