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31 produkter
Southpaw
Short Stories
E-bok, 2015
50 kr
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Venezuela and Italy, villages and prisons, forests and whore houses are the backdrops to these short stories which reflect the people and the places that have informed this wonderful writer''s work. Antonio Mezzano in Umbria, the blind man who gathers village gossip in his one good hand; La Rusa …
Joanna
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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Written by the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Gregory Award, this family drama features a trinity of women bound by compulsion and secrecy. Joanna, an abomination to her mother, discovers the inheritance that has shadowed her family for generations.
Mozambique Mysteries
E-bok, 2010
40 kr
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MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Terán travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place ''so remote that few have visited it since the time of Vasco da Gama''. After three marriages and …
Keepers Of The House
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Since the eighteenth century the eccentric and flamboyant Beltran family have ruled their desolate Andean valley. Now they are almost extinct. At seventeen, Lydia Sinclair, newly married to Don Diego Beltran, the last of the line, arrives at the vast decaying Hacienda La Bebella. As her husband …
Memory Maps
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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I am a wanderer: one with a hoarder''s love of houses and things... I am tracing here a memory map of all the places that have stayed with me and, since this is also a map of all the voyages of discovery, this is also the story of the getting to those places.'' In Memory Map, probably her most …
Otto
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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I was born in 1934 in a little lost village near San Cristobel de Torondoy eleven months after my brother. Unlike him, who was astonishingly handsome, I was astonishingly ugly. I was covered in black hair from head to foot like some kind of monkey. For some reason my ear-drums burst within days of …
Keepers of the House
Häftad, 2022
234 kr
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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 1982‘Exceptional’ ObserverLydia Sinclair was just seventeen when she arrived on her husband’s estate in the Andes, and from the first day she felt that she belonged there.Keepers of the House tells the story of a young English woman newly married to a sugar …
Mozambique Mysteries
Häftad, 2010
293 kr
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MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Terán travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place 'so remote that few have visited it since the time of Vasco da Gama'. After three marriages and …
Hacienda
My Venezuelan Years
Häftad, 1998
334 kr
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Married at sixteen to a man twenty years her senior who spoke no English, she was taken to his ancestral home and estate where she found herself living in the most primitive of conditions, isolated and alone. St. Aubin de Teran ended up virtually running the plantation that belonged to her …
Elements Of Italy
Häftad, 2002
267 kr
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The turnstile into Italy has clicked continually for centuries - Lord Byron loved here and continues to draw romantics in his wake, Stendhal concluded: 'The charm of Italy is akin to that of being in love'. Yet Italians love their country more than any foreigner ever can, it is a place where …
Better Broken Than New
E-bok, 2024
242 kr
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Following a successful career as an award-winning, best-selling novelist, in 2004 Lisa St Aubin de Terán retreated to a remote village in northern Mozambique. There she found her own African roots, founded a charity, and confronted new challenges. Much has been written about her life and escapades …
Keepers of the House
A Fragmented Memoir
Häftad, 2024
143 kr
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A new edition of the best-selling, award-winning first book.When the Beltrán brothers came to this Andean valley, they found behind barred windows beautiful twin sisters – last in the line of an illustrious conquistador. Through them the Beltrán dynasty was born – a dynasty that ruled the valley …
Keepers of the House
E-bok, 2024
147 kr
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1783. Rodrigo and Sancho Beltrán came to this Andean valley from Spain and found behind barred windows the beautiful twin sisters who were last in the line of the illustrious conquistador de Labastida. From his deathbed their father had sworn the sisters to spinsterhood and imprisoned them in his …
Slow Train To Milan
Häftad, 2024
138 kr
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A new edition of the best-selling, award-winning second book.To Lizaveta, César remained as much of an enigma after two years of their nomadic exile together as he had that first day in Clapham when he took up his peculiar vigil in her mother’s kitchen and showed no signs of shifting out of her …
Slow Train to Milan
E-bok, 2024
147 kr
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To Lizaveta, César remained as much of an enigma after two years of their nomadic exile together as he had that first day in Clapham when he took up his peculiar vigil in her mother''s kitchen and showed no signs of shifting out of her life, ever. ''South America'', this total stranger had …
Tiger
E-bok, 2024
150 kr
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The servants said that even the waters of the Orinoco obeyed Misia Schmutter, the white-haired old lady, so proud of her Prussian ancestry, who treated the world like her slave. She had seen a glint of her own ruthlessness in her grandson Lucien''s eye. Worshipping and torturing him by turns she …
Bay of Silence
Häftad, 2024
138 kr
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A new edition of the best-selling fourth novel.It all appears innocent enough: a handsome couple in their thirties – she an actress, he a successful graphic designer – revisiting Sestri Levante on the Italian Riviera where they once spent their honeymoon. But it is not at all innocent. The couple …
Bay of Silence
E-bok, 2024
147 kr
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It all appears innocent enough: a handsome couple in their thirties - she an actress, he a successful graphic designer - revisiting Sestri Levante on the Italian Riviera where they once spent their honeymoon. But it is not at all innocent. The couple have been driven here by paranoia - by a slow …
Hobby
Inbunden, 2024
317 kr
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When police pay a visit to an elderly peeping tom, they unexpectedly stumble upon a loose thread that leads detective John Custer into a murky world of sex crimes and serial killings, of hidden graves and socially impeccable paedophiles. Ignoring the scepticism of his colleagues and superiors, …
Hobby
Häftad, 2026
374 kr
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A dark psychological police procedural in the tradition of P. D. James and Tana French. When a routine police visit to investigate a peeping-tom complaint uncovers the first thread of a hidden network of abuse and murder, Detective John Custer becomes determined to pursue crimes that others would …
Hacienda
My Venezuelan Years
Häftad, 2026
194 kr
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The Hacienda is an extraordinary memoir from prize-winning novelist, Lisa St Aubin de Terán. At the age of seventeen she followed her husband, South American aristocrat and bank robber Don Jaime Terán, to his hacienda, deep in the Venezuelan Andes. Once there, Jaime virtually left his new bride to …
metamorphosen 21 – Journal
Magazin für Literatur und Kultur
Av Sigrid Valtin, Christian Wollecke m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
60 kr
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"Die schönste Serie, die es überhaupt gibt, ist die Serialität der gelebten Tage. In Interferenz mit dieser Subjektserialität läuft die fast genauso schöne objektive Serialität der Medien; der Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, der Dailies und Weeklies. In Französisch laufen die beiden Phänomene in dem …
