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Lisa Halliday Asymmetry
A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times'Spellbinding' New Yorker'Thrilling' GuardianIn New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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T. Coraghessan Boyle After the plague
Bundel met zestien verhalen met een absurdistische inslag.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2021
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Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Original Version
An alternative version - the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished - of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon - it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece - a panoramic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars which for over a century has inspired reverential devotion among its readers. This version is certain to provoke controversy...
Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021
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Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Oberon Modern Plays
A mysterious stranger appears in a Moscow park. Soon he and his retinue have astonished the locals with the magic show to end all magic shows. But why are they really here, and what has it got to do with the beautiful Margarita, or her lover, the Master, a silenced writer? A carnival for the senses and a diabolical extravaganza, this most exuberant of Russian novels was staged in this adaptation at Chichester Festival Theatre. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Niccolo Ammaniti Anna
FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2017It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged uncontrolled across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the woods, keeping him safe from 'the Outside', scavenging for food amid the packs of wild dogs that roam their ruined, blackened world. Before their mother died, she told them to love each other and never part....
Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Niccolo Ammaniti I'm Not Scared
Canons
The international bestselling novel ';of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping reada deft masterpiece with never a false note' (The Guardian, UK). Southern Italy, 1978. In the midst of a relentlessly hot summer, as the adults stay inside tending to their own business, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he doesn't dare...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Canongate Canons, [Nederland] | 2021
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Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Olga Tokarczuk The Books of Jacob
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts...
Engels | ePub3, 13 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2021
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Albert Camus The Plague
Penguin Modern Classics
A story for our, and all, times' Guardian Set in a town consumed by a deadly virus, The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror....
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Dean Koontz The Neighbour
An original short story from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. A prequel to THE CITY, his gripping and moving new novel. Every city has its wonders and mysteries. For the Pomerantz family, the most disturbing mystery at the moment is the identity and the intentions of their new neighbour... The year is 1967. Malcolm Pomerantz is twelve, geeky and socially awkward, while his seriously bright sister, Amalia, is spirited and beautiful. Each is the other's best friend, united by a...
Engels | ePub2, 2,9 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Mizuki Tsujimura Lonely Castle in the Mirror
The no. 1 Japanese bestseller and Guardian 2021 highlight
For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch.''Strange and beautiful. Imagine the offspring of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle with The Virgin Suicides'' GUARDIAN''Genuinely affecting. A story of empathy, collaboration and sharing truths'' FINANCIAL TIMESTranslated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami_______________________________Would you share your deepest secrets to save a friend?In a tranquil neighbourhood...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Markus Zusak Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Underdogs
I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube. ' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it. 'The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just winning. A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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James Joyce Dubliners
Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Donoghue Emma Donoghue Room
Oberon Modern Plays
Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Ann Patchett The Dutch House
Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020
Lose yourself in the story of a lifetime the unforgettable Sunday Times bestseller 'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020 A STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS, THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME, AND A PAST THAT THEY CAN'T LET GO. Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2021
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Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at CanterburyThis selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these...
Engels | ePub2, 36 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Charles Dickens David Copperfield
Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo TolstoyIn David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood...
Engels | ePub3, 7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Haruki Murakami 1Q84
Book 3
Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to save the man she loves. But things are moving forward, and Aomame does not yet know that she and Tengo are more closely bound than ever. Tengo is searching for Aomame, and he must find her before this world's rules loosen up too much. He must find her before someone else does. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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John Irving The World According To Garp
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes - even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with 'lunacy and sorrow'; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. It provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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John Irving Until I find you
Een filmacteur zoekt vanaf zijn peutertijd naar zijn vader, waarbij hij ontdekt dat het geheugen onbetrouwbaar is.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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