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On Beauty
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and familyWhy do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.'Ambitious, hugely impressive, beautifully observed' Guardian
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Nightbitch
Outrageous, gritty, smart, fun
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Olive, Again
A novel to treasure... Olive, Again, like Strout's first book, delivers roughly five hours of spine-tingling pleasure.
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Boyhood Island
An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father.In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.'Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel'Times Literary Supplement
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A Man in Love
An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know.It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens' birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write.This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's too.'Compelling, rewarding...breathtaking' Observer
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A Death in the Family
One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood, family and grief.Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death.When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. A profound and mesmerizing work, written as if the author's very life were at stake.'A masterpiece... Its depiction of a family's disintegration is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I've read in years' Observer
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Girl, 1983
Over seven taut, sharp but elusive novels, the Norwegian writer Linn Ullmann has sought to refine experience into stories that carve order, even beauty, from a shadowed past . . . Girl, 1983 nods to Annie Ernaux, Marguerite Duras and other kindred literary spirits - but her method and manner has a tact and finesse all its own . . . If her fictions transcend the raw stuff of autobiography, they never deny the soil from which they spring . . . Ullmann crafts her words with unflagging care
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Soldier Sailor
Claire Kilroy
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Wie is die vrouw?
Het stof van de scheiding is neergedaald en E.G. woont in haar eigen huis met haar twee dochters. Ze is bezig een nieuw thuis te creëren, en daarnaast een leven voor zichzelf op te bouwen met een nieuwe geliefde, wanneer ze ontdekt dat haar ex jarenlang een dubbelleven heeft geleid met een andere vrouw.Aanvankelijk wil E.G. hier niets mee doen, ze kán er ook niets mee. Deze wending van het verhaal is voor haar te groot, te lelijk en te onbevattelijk. Maar hoe ze ook probeert het verraad te vergeten, op de meest onverwachte momenten duikt het weer op. Dus besluit ze er tóch over te schrijven, om dat wat onder de oppervlakte borrelt en waar we in het dagelijkse leven maar liever niet te veel op letten, bloot te leggen.Terwijl in de buitenwereld een pandemie uitbreekt en de hele wereld op afstand van elkaar moet zien te blijven, leert zij juist steeds meer op mensen te vertrouwen en dichter bij zichzelf te komen dan ze ooit deed.
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Brother of the More Famous Jack
A 40th Anniversary Edition of the Coming-of-Age ClassicThe fiction equivalent of a brisk walk followed by a hot buttered crumpet: fresh, invigorating, comforting and heartening
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Een levenswerk
Over het moederschapHet moederschap is een ervaring vol tegenstellingen: het is zowel alledaags als mysterieus, fascinerend, saai, komisch en rampzalig tegelijkertijd. De geboorte van haar kind maakte bij Rachel Cusk een reeks verwarrende gevoelens los, en ze ontdekte dat niets haar had voorbereid op de vreemde werkelijkheid van het moederschap. Een levenswerk is een leerschool in baby’s, borstvoeding, gebroken nachten en nooit meer alleen zijn. Het is een mijlpaal in de literatuur over het moederschap. Rachel Cusk is de auteur van onder meer de veelgeprezen romans Contouren, Transit, Kudos en De tweede plaats. Ze ontving onlangs een Guggenheim Fellowship en woont in Parijs.
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Must I Go
This brilliant novel examines lives lived, losses accumulated, and the slipperiness of perception. Yiyun Li writes deeply, drolly, and with elegance about history, even as it's happening. She is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book.
€ 13,95