Results for 'salman rushdie'

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  1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    1. Milan Kundera

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    'A dark and brilliant achievement' (Ian McEwan)

    Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number of heartbreakingly familiar characters.

    € 13,95
  2. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
    1. Kiran Desai

    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

    € 17,95
  3. The Island of Missing Trees
    1. Elif Shafak

    The Island of Missing Trees

    An outstanding work of breathtaking beauty

    € 13,95
  4. The Eleventh Hour
    1. Salman Rushdie

    The Eleventh Hour

    The Eleventh Hour is a book of five stories about ageing and dying… It might sound bleak, but the writing is funny and frisky, full of pace and panache

    € 13,95
  5. Mother Mary Comes To Me
    1. Arundhati Roy

    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

    € 17,95
  6. The Housekeeper
    1. Rose Tremain

    The Housekeeper

    'Exquisitely drawn, poignant and devastating. Rose Tremain is masterful in her depiction of a summer romance, and how a shared experience can be so utterly different for the people involved'

    € 21,95
  7. I Found Myself...The Last Dreams
    1. Naguib Mahfouz

    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.

    € 13,95
  8. The Eleventh Hour
    1. Salman Rushdie

    The Eleventh Hour

    The Eleventh Hour is a book of five stories about ageing and dying… It might sound bleak, but the writing is funny and frisky, full of pace and panache

    € 20,95
  9. Mother Mary Comes To Me
    1. Arundhati Roy

    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
  10. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
    1. Kiran Desai

    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

    € 21,95
  11. Mrs Dalloway
    1. Virginia Woolf

    Mrs Dalloway

    One of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel

    € 12,50
  12. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
    1. Shehan Karunatilaka

    The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

    Winner of the Booker Prize 2022

    'Imagine a mash-up of Stranger Things and Salman Rushdie' Robbie Millen, Sunday Times

    € 13,95