World Editions - Böcker

From Germany's #1 bestselling author Juli Zeh comes the first real corona novel, which takes place in the middle of lockdown in spring 2020 and subtly describes the social and very private consequences of the pandemic. Fleeing stay-at-home orders ...

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Having fled his homeland 25 years ago for France, Adam returns to the East for the first time to see a dying friend. Among the milk-white mountains of his homeland, the past soon catches up with him. His childhood friends have all taken different ...

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A powerful novel about the LGBTQ rights movement and gay love in Japan and Taiwan, from the most important queer voice of East Asia's millennial generation. Cho Norie, twenty-seven and originally from Taiwan, is working an office job in Tokyo. Whi...

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Determined to shake off the threat of death, Frederic examines every possible procedure, legal and illegal, to turn him into a member of a post-human species. Accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter and her robot friend, Frederic travels the glob...

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John Herdman's masterpiece of the modern Scottish Gothic appears in print from Leamington Books' imprint Gothic World Literature Editions, with a new introduction from the author. Black humour and even blacker lives collide in a tale of love and m...

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Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents travel from Zambia to Kenya and Canada and beyond with their young family. Always the outsider, and against a backdrop of ...

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Benoite Groult's most pioneering and best-loved work follows the passionate relationship between a pair of mismatched lovers - a Parisian intellectual and a Breton fisherman - brought together by lust. Through love-letters and exotic encounters ar...

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When the Angel family's beloved home in the Antioquian wilderness falls into danger, they manage to defend it against the guerrillas and, later, the paramilitaries - but at a high price. After their parents' death, Pilar, Eva and Tono have to deci...

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Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family's adopted home in Germany for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. His only clues are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. The Storyteller follows ...

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In Dichtersruhe Everyone's a writer. So when the devil turns up in a black car claiming to be a hot-shot publisher, unsatisfied authorial desires are unleashed and the village's former harmony is shattered. Taut with foreboding and Gothic suspense...

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In this brilliant Swedish thriller and sensitive coming-of-age story, a traumatic event shatters the summer of two boys in love with their young teacher. Sweden in the '60s. Erik and his friend Edmund spend their vacation by a forest lake daydream...

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A New York Times Staff Favorite and one of The Globe's 100 Favourite BooksBrutally and uncompromisingly honest, Sisonkes beautifully crafted storytelling enriches the already extraordinary pool of young African women writers of our time. Graa Mach...

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"e;You Have Me to Love is an intense and dramatic novel filled with meticulous use of detail and a forensic psychological accuracy. Its power comes from the fierce energy of the narrative structure, the way of handling silence and pain, and th...

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Cool, sparse, and delicious, Esther Gerritsens Craving hits all the right notes. This is an author who is unafraid of both complex characters and complex emotion (Thank God!). Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely BonesFunny, angry, feminist...Droll ...

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Even readers unfamiliar with The Last Poets' historic significance as building blocks of the hip-hop and rap movement, will instantly find this novel a compelling read. The Last Poets were self-proclaimed prophets of 'hope and change'. The band wa...

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Saskia de Costers We and Me is a great dark beauty, and simultaneously, a true original and a reminder of why that endangered species, the novel, remains essential: no other narrative form is so expansive, so complex, so human, and so true. Michae...

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'Verbeke has written a bold, busy, textured novel. Read it once and you may well read it twice.'-The Irish TimesWith a sharp and observational eye, Annelies Verbeke takes a funny, imaginative and perceptive look at the realities and absurdities of...

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Humor, pain and copious amounts of love run throughout this critically acclaimed novel by Tom Lanoye. Both brave and honest, Speechless is a poignant homage to Lanoyes late mother, Jose.Flamboyant, proud and dominant, Jose is unrecognizable after ...

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With unnerving conviction, this novel inhabits the mind, heart and voice of Belgium's 'most hated woman', the ex-wife of murderer Marc Dutroux the authenticity makes for a compelling narrative. Blake MorrisonThe most hated woman in Belgium sits in...

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A leading French feminist and writer, Groult drew wide attention with this sexually daring novelThe NY TimesSalt on my Skin is widely regarded as Benote Groults most pioneering, best-loved book.This highly-charged novel follows the passionate rela...

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A lively, exciting and funny novel, which is told with great energy and momentum. A completely convincing picture of the bizarre fantasy world of a lonely adolescent. Dutch Foundation for LiteratureInventive, dreamy Gieles lives with his father an...

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For readers of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner comes a "e;pacy Lebanese mystery. A man is haunted by his father's disappearance in this acclaimed debut novel set against the backdrop of Middle Eastern politics"e; The GuardianSamir leaves...

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A novel written in beautiful Flemish about guilt and innocence, responsibility and choice, and the good and evil sides of people BoekFlanders, 1915. David Verbocht, sentenced to death as a deserter, stands before the firing squad and looks back on...

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A Devil Comes to Townis a brilliant form of torture...a huge amount of fun. Lisa Grgas forThe Literary ReviewA small Swiss village full of aspiring writers + The devil in the form of a hot-shot publisher = An international bestseller by the author...

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Beautiful, happy people? No. Lucy is the most popular girl in the local elementary school of an idyllic Dutch housing estate. When a bizarre crime rocks her world and sends her mother to prison, Lucy is turned into an outcast and her childhood bec...

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Mr. Miller is watching youMichael Bellicher is working for a successful consultancy agency and has everything going for him. During a night spent at work, he witnesses something he should never have seen. Attempting to flee the tightening strangle...

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There is something Edgar Allan Poe-like in the inexplicable way the wind turbines tax some of Blaashoek's inhabitants...Sleepless Summeris determined to leave you with a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, and its Coen Brothers-meets-Stephen ...

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"e;Wagendorp's book manages to be funny, shrewd, and moving, with a complex structure that never feels cumbersome, and a finale so intense that you want to read it very slowly, almost one word at a time."e; -The Guardian"e;A wonderful ...

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Winner of the European Union Prize in Literature"e;Addictive (...) Janna's plight is that of Jane Eyre and the narrator of du Maurier's "e;Rebecca."e; She is a young woman who falls in love with an older man so damaged he cannot possib...

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It is raining non-stop over Paris. The Malegarde family - split between France, London, and the US - is reunited for the first time in years. When Paul, a famous yet withdrawn arborist, suffers a stroke in the middle of his 70th birthday celebrati...

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