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Results for 'kaveh akbar'
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Martyr!
The instant New York Times bestseller: a young man uncovers the truth behind his mother’s death in this transcendental debut that takes the reader from New York to Tehran.
€ 13,95 -
The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen
From International Booker Prize finalist Shokoofeh Azar, a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a passionate love affair
€ 20,95 -
Colored Television
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2025A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia
€ 22,50 -
Martelaar!
Cyrus woont in een vieze, kleine kamer in een gedeeld appartement in Indiana met een stapel vuile was en te laat ingeleverde bibliotheekboeken als zijn enige bezittingen. In de ledige uren sinds hij de drank heeft opgegeven, is hij vooral bezig met nadenken over schrijven en het niet doen. Zijn moeder stierf jaren geleden toen het passagiersvliegtuig waarin ze zat werd neergehaald door de vs, zijn vader is er ook niet meer; in de gedichten die hij schrijft gaat hij op zoek naar de wortels van zijn Iraanse achtergrond. Wat hij eigenlijk wil, is sterven. Het ultieme martelaarschap bereiken. Dat zit in de Iraanse aard, stelt hij. Zwalkend door het leven, op zoek naar de focus die zijn kunstenaarschap mist, hoort hij over de Iraanse kunstenares Orkideh die in het Brooklyn Museum in New York een performance opvoert: Death-Speak. Haar laatste weken en dagen brengt ze door in het museum. Terwijl ze sterft aan kanker, kunnen bezoekers met haar praten. Dit is wat hij nodig heeft. En hij neemt het vliegtuig naar New York. Maar de gesprekken die hij met Orkideh voert, brengen hem niet dichter tot de dood, maar het leven. Vertaald door Hans Kloos.
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The Radiance
Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other honors. Akhtar is the author of the novels American Dervish, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and Homeland Elegies, named one of 10 Best Books of 2020 by The New York Times. He has also authored the plays McNeal, Junk, Disgraced, The Who & The What, and The Invisible Hand. Akhtar was named the New York State Author in 2021.
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Safe Spaces
Nothing about life is wasted on Tice Cin. Safe Spaces makes a universe of London in all its glory, cruelty, poetry and bureaucracy. This is a book that evokes the shattering effect of trauma on prose, then painstakingly reconstructs a way to experience life, and talk about love. I saw in it a feat of outstanding energy to keep looking, keep listening and, feel everything in a time of grief, and yet somehow overstate nothing
€ 20,95 -
Martelaar! midprice
Cyrus woont in een vieze, kleine kamer in een gedeeld appartement in Indiana met een stapel vuile was en te laat ingeleverde bibliotheekboeken als zijn enige bezittingen. In de ledige uren sinds hij de drank heeft opgegeven, is hij vooral bezig met nadenken over schrijven en het niet doen. Zijn moeder stierf jaren geleden toen het passagiersvliegtuig waarin ze zat werd neergehaald door de VS, zijn vader is er ook niet meer, in de gedichten die hij schrijft gaat hij op zoek naar de wortels van zijn Iraanse achtergrond. Wat hij eigenlijk wil, is sterven. Het ultieme martelaarschap bereiken. Dat zit in de Iraanse aard, stelt hij. Zwalkend door het leven, op zoek naar de focus die zijn kunstenaarschap mist, hoort hij over de Iraanse kunstenares Orkideh die in het Brooklyn Museum in New York een performance opvoert: Death-Speak. Haar laatste weken en dagen brengt ze door in het museum. Terwijl ze sterft aan kanker, kunnen bezoekers met haar praten. Dit is wat hij nodig heeft. En hij neemt het vliegtuig naar New York. Maar de gesprekken die hij met Orkideh voert, brengen hem niet dichter tot de dood, maar het leven.
€ 20,00 -
Medusa of the Roses
'A powerful debut ... unflinching and bold' ObserverStunning and captivating, heartbreaking and tender, violent and brutal. Here is a writer who understands that the complexities of the human heart are often best shown through image
€ 13,95 -
The Radiance
A NEW YORK TIMES NOVEL EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN 2026 • A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 “Simply put, a work of genius.” —Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet—a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture—"bordering at times on the ineffable" (Mary Gaitskill).When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is caught between revelation and madness as an uncanny pull toward a brilliant campus colleague ensnares him in a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator’s accident—both the violence and its aftermath. Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, The Radiance is of our American moment and beyond it—asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.
€ 27,50 -
The Vanishings
Eight Stories"I love what The Vanishings makes of empty space, of the disappeared and disappearing, the once-longed-for, the self, the empty door. Kavi Yaga has a mighty ear and these propulsive stories grip you with lines that sing, leaving you big-eyed and better-made." —Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award Finalist "These eight jeweled hauntings are unsettling odes to all that is taken from us. Long after their final words, Kavi Yaga's stories lodge in your bones and catch each other's light." —Mishi Saran, author of The Other Side of Light Stories that capture the subtle erasures in women's lives . . . bringing to vivid life all the rich colors and sounds of South India. —Sheela Reddy, author of Mr. and Mrs. Jinnah: The Marriage that Shook India
€ 23,50 -
Martyr!
€ 79,50 -
Martire!
Sin da molto piccolo Cyrus Shams ha dovuto fare i conti con la morte. Quando aveva pochi mesi la madre, Roya, rimase uccisa in un terribile disastro aereo causato da un incrociatore americano che abbatté, per errore, l'aereo di linea iraniano su cui viaggiava. Il padre, Ali, alla ricerca di un futuro diverso, e per tentare di fuggire al dolore, si trasferì con il piccolo Cyrus proprio negli Stati Uniti, lavorando per il resto della vita in un allevamento di polli nell'Indiana, fino a spegnersi improvvisamente mentre il figlio era al college. Cyrus, infatti, grazie alla sua intelligenza vivace e al talento per la poesia si era garantito una borsa di studio in una buona università, dove aveva anche avuto le prime esperienze con alcol e droghe. Esperienze che ben presto si erano trasformate in una dipendenza sconfitta a fatica. Ora, a ventinove anni, Cyrus ha un obiettivo: fare in modo che la sua morte non sia priva di senso come quelle dei genitori. È affascinato, fino quasi all'ossessione, dai "martiri", uomini e donne che hanno vissuto e si sono sacrificati per una causa superiore, non per la fede o la gloria, ma per il bene degli altri. Sogna di scrivere un libro che li celebri e poi, forse, diventare uno di loro. Non sa, però, che questa ricerca lo porterà a scavare anche nel passato della sua famiglia risvegliando fantasmi che credeva ormai dimenticati. "Martire!" è un inno alla vita e alla ricerca di un senso che ognuno può trovare in modi diversi (nella fede, nell'arte, in sé, negli altri, nell'amore). Con questo esordio Kaveh Akbar si afferma come la nuova voce, essenziale quanto potente, della narrativa internazionale contemporanea. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
€ 37,50