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Results for 'arundhati roy'
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai’s long-awaited third novel is an utter triumph . . . it’s one of the strongest contenders on this year’s Booker longlist . . . Sentence by sentence, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny makes for blissful reading . . . Desai has managed some literary alchemy. On the surface, she has written a believable but still cute will-they-won’t-they romance . . . but she also incorporates elements of magical realism . . . and through all that, Desai uses the struggle of her two writer protagonists to acknowledge, embrace and then undercut various tropes and cliches that Western readers have come to expect from her, and her compatriots
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The Island of Missing Trees
An outstanding work of breathtaking beauty
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Mother Mary Comes To Me
Brave and absorbing . . . In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial mother . . . The world described in the first part of the book provides much of the material for The God of Small Things. But these pages aren’t significant for giving us access to Roy’s inspiration, or as a preamble to her life as a bestselling writer who would go on to become an oppositional political voice. Even if she were none of these things or had never written her novel, they would be utterly absorbing. They have a wonderful, self-assured self-sufficiency
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Nation of Strangers
Rebuilding Home in the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, this is a powerful and consoling reappraisal of the concept of exile, migration and home from internationally acclaimed author and political thinker Ece Temelkuran
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The Godfather
Sonny Corleone is an old hand, while World War II veteran Michael Corleone is unused to the world of crime and reluctant to plunge into the business.Both the police and ruthless rival crime lords scent blood in the water.
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I Found Myself...The Last Dreams
Naguib Mahfouz (Author) Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, the most famous is the Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.Diana Matar (Photographs by) Diana Matar is a photographer whose work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, The British Museum, Institut du Monde Arabe, and thirty other institutions. She is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Grant and the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Fine Art and is the author of two monographs, Evidence (2014) and My America (2024), which was shortlisted for the Rencontres d'Arles Photo-text Book Award.Hisham Matar (Translator) Hisham Matar was born in New York to Libyan parents, spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his life in London. His memoir The Return received a Pulitzer Prize in 2017. He is also the author of In the Country of Men, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Anatomy of a Disappearance and A Month in Siena. His most recent novel, My Friends, won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and nominated for the National Book Award. His work has been translated into over thirty languages.
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The First House
The First House dissects the tyranny of family with surgical precision, unsparing in its depiction of the delusions of marriage and motherhood - the novel boils with brutal insight. Avni Doshi is among the finest prose stylists at work today; every page is exhilarating
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Mother Mary Comes To Me
Brave and absorbing . . . In this remarkable memoir, the Booker-winning novelist looks back on her bittersweet relationship with her mercurial mother . . . The world described in the first part of the book provides much of the material for The God of Small Things. But these pages aren’t significant for giving us access to Roy’s inspiration, or as a preamble to her life as a bestselling writer who would go on to become an oppositional political voice. Even if she were none of these things or had never written her novel, they would be utterly absorbing. They have a wonderful, self-assured self-sufficiency
€ 23,50 -
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai’s long-awaited third novel is an utter triumph . . . it’s one of the strongest contenders on this year’s Booker longlist . . . Sentence by sentence, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny makes for blissful reading . . . Desai has managed some literary alchemy. On the surface, she has written a believable but still cute will-they-won’t-they romance . . . but she also incorporates elements of magical realism . . . and through all that, Desai uses the struggle of her two writer protagonists to acknowledge, embrace and then undercut various tropes and cliches that Western readers have come to expect from her, and her compatriots
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The God of Small Things
Winner of the Booker Prize‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
‘Wervelende schrijfkunst. […] Mother Mary is een boek vol kleurrijk geschilderde scènes, aimabele excentriekelingen en tedere humor.’ De Tijd ‘Een prachtig boek.’ ***** De Standaard der Letteren Diepbedroefd na de dood van haar moeder, Mary, maar tegelijkertijd verbaasd en ‘geplaagd door schaamte’ over haar heftige reactie, begon Roy aan dit boek. Ze probeerde de gevoelens te doorgronden die ze koesterde tegenover de moeder van wie ze zich op haar achttiende had losgemaakt, ‘niet omdat ik niet van haar hield, maar om van haar te kunnen blijven houden.’ Zo begint dit adembenemende, soms schokkende en verrassend grappige verhaal over Roys leven, vanaf haar jeugd in Kerala, India, waar haar alleenstaande moeder een school oprichtte, via de bekroonde romans en essays die ze schreef, tot de dood van haar moeder. Dit verhaal, dat de grootsheid, reikwijdte en diepgang van haar romans combineert met de passie, politieke helderheid en warmte van haar essays, is een ode aan vrijheid, een eerbetoon aan weerbarstige liefde en nietsontziende onverschrokkenheid. ‘De God van Kleine Dingen is een universeel verhaal over liefde en verlies, maar geschreven in een volstrekt eigen taal: poëtisch, brutaal en speels. Het persoonlijke verhaal dat Roy vertelt in Mother Mary comes to me is zo mogelijk nog intenser. […] Een prachtig boek.’ ***** De Standaard der Letteren 'Het werk van Roy bevindt zich in de frontlinie van solidariteit en humanisme.' The Guardian 'Roy legt de menselijke aard bloot.' Daily Telegraph ‘Een van de beste boeken van het jaar.’ Humo ‘Roy dwingt respect af met haar moed en haar ‘grazende’ en tegelijkertijd trefzekere stijl.’ Trouw
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Don't Look Now and Other Stories
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that, instead of laying their ghosts to rest, they become caught up in a train of strange events. This volume contains stories that explore fears, longings, secrets and desires.
€ 14,95