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This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south.<BR>Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, c...

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A dazzling and savage first novel New York TimesAngels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bu...

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American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost so...

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From the National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, C...

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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearOne of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Jo...

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Here are two complete audiobooks by Denis Johnson, narrated by Will Patton. Listen to both Train Dreams, and Jesus' Son, as well as an excerpt from Denis Johnson's National Book Award-winning Tree of Smoke.In Train Dreams Robert Grainer is a day l...

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Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game.Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but tr...

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From the National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, C...

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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearOne of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Jo...

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Jimmy Luntz owes money to a man called Juarez. Trouble is, Juarez isn't the most patient of men. And when he gets bored of waiting, he sends someone round to collect. Luntz doesn't actually plan to shoot the guy, but the way he sees it, ...

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American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost so...

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Resuscitation of a Hanged Man is Denis Johnson's most fully realized novel to date, an enthralling and shattering reading experience, which probes the mysteries of faith, hope and love.

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In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear. Freetown, Sierra Leone. A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single as...

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson, read by Nick Offerman, Michael Shannon, Dermot Mulroney, Will Patton, and Liev Schreiber.The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story c...

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Tree of Smoke ? the name given to a ?psy op? that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned ? is Denis Johnson?s most gripping, visionary and ambitious work to date. Set in south-east Asia and the US, and s...

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The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production ...

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Yusuf Idris (1927 91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story. He studied and practiced medicine, but his interests wer...

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Lola gazed into her mother's eyes in complete silence, only terror and fear filled both of their eyes. A decision had to be made. Her mother wanted to run and get help, but she too was familiar with the poundings The Boogie Man would inflict on he...

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In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear. Freetown, Sierra Leone. A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single as...

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**A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018** The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus Son. Written in the same luminous prose, this coll...

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Lola gazed into her mother's eyes in complete silence, only terror and fear filled both of their eyes. A decision had to be made. Her mother wanted to run and get help, but she too was familiar with the poundings Silas (the boogie man to Lola) wou...

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Die Welt geht unter Zwei Generationen nach dem atomaren Endschlag kümmern auf den Florida Keys die letzten Reste der Zivilisation dahin, am Leben erhalten durch Menschen wie Mr. Cheung. Daneben sind neue primitive Gesellschaften entstanden, etwa d...

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«Der Gott, an den ich glauben möchte, hat eine Stimme und einen Humor wie Denis Johnson.» JONATHAN FRANZEN Vier Männer und eine Frau verschlägt es in die Katastrophen eines grausamen Dschungelkrieges. Denis Johnson zeichnet ein erschütterndes Port...

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Zwischen Rausch und Religion - Denis Johnsons legendäre Erzählungen Frei nach Lou Reed - "When I'm rushing on my run, and I feel like Jesus' son" - muss dieses Buch gelesen werden. Denis Johnsons Storysammlung "Jesus' Son", 199...

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Aufwühlend, schnell und dunkel - ein außergewöhnlicher Spionageroman Roland Nair und Michael Adriko haben sich lange nicht gesehen. Vor zehn Jahren, während des Bürgerkriegs, haben sie in Sierra Leone zusammen viel Geld verdient. Noch heute nennt ...

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Zart und unerhört: Das letzte Werk eines der größten Stilisten Amerikas schlägt einen in den Bann. Denis Johnson, berühmt geworden durch den Erzählungsband «Jesus' Sohn» (1992) und den mit dem National Book Award ausgezeichneten Roman «Ein gerader...

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Mike Reed, Assistenzprofessor an einer Universität, lernt auf einer Party eine beschwipste Schönheit kennen: Kunststudentin, rothaarig, in einem blauen Samtkleid. Er nimmt sie kaum wahr. Vier Jahre zuvor hat er Frau und Tochter bei einem Unfall ve...

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