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White Deer
A Novel of Anton Chekhov
AvRegina McBride
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
201 kr
Skickas
In the summer of 1879, on his way to Moscow to study medicine, 19-year-old Anton Chekhov, from a bankrupt merchant class family, stops to spend a restful few weeks in the Ukrainian countryside, staying with his friend, Dr. Mitrofan, who is worried about Anton’s lingering bronchitis. It is here that Anton meets Vera Denisova, also 19, a budding actress, the daughter of theater aristocrats from Volkhov, a neighboring estate. The two spend much of their time wandering Volkhov’s vast property, hoping for a glimpse of a white deer that has been spotted in the back acreage.As they grow closer, Vera confides in Anton about her secret romance and heartbreak over Petya, a servant her age who was gifted at drawing and who she helped to acquire an apprenticeship as a draughtsman in order to leave servitude for good. Anton is fascinated by her obsession, and a triangle forms between Vera, Anton, and the absent Petya. Anton, too, shares his secrets with her, his conflicted relationship with his indigent family and his frustrated wish to publish stories. Surreptitiously through Anton, Vera learns the truth about her family’s declining financial situation and the impending loss of her beloved childhood estate. Together in the long, extended light of summer days, Vera and Anton struggle to come to terms with their feelings for each other and the new profoundly changed world that is waiting for each of them at summer’s end.The final section of the novel charts the correspondence between Vera and Anton over the next two decades. Vera has become a successful actress and Anton, a doctor who treats peasants for free, has more than realized his ambition as a writer. In a final letter to Vera before his death at 44 of tuberculosis, Anton reveals that his play, The Cherry Orchard, was inspired by his time with her at Volkhov.
Sonata in Wax
AvEdward Hamlin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
379 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
"Sonata in Wax is a terrific novel—immersive, compelling, smart, the story propelled by a cast of complex, full-bodied characters and the author’s absolute mastery of the musical worlds he conjures...I’m knocked flat with admiration for this splendid novel.”—Ben Fountain, New York Times bestselling author of Devil Makes Three"A deeply realized tale of the power of music and the anonymity of history."— Kirkus ReviewsFrom award-winning author Edward Hamlin comes an immersive, time-hopping musical mystery that intertwines the stories of Elisabeth Garnier, a young Frenchwoman living in World War I Boston, and Ben Weil, an acclaimed music producer whose life is consumed by a lie—and by a bizarre, breathtaking sonata that could destroy him if he can’t uncover its composer’s identity in time.As the Great War rages, a French pianist sits down to play an arrestingly original sonata—a piece so strange and inspired that it could change the course of classical music. The moment is captured on wax cylinders, the recording medium of the day. But in the tumult of war the fragile cylinders vanish, and with them the identity of the brilliant composer and the virtuoso pianist.A century later, five timeworn wax cylinders land on the desk of Ben Weil, a revered classical music producer. From the moment he first plays them in his Chicago studio, Ben knows he’s in the presence of genius. The dazzling piece is years ahead of its time, more Coltrane than Debussy—how could it be?Brought low by a painful divorce, Ben throws himself into unlocking the sonata’s mysteries. But when a renowned pianist stumbles upon the work and takes credit for unearthing it, he’s swept into a lie that could shatter his reputation and his private life at a stroke. Somehow Ben must find a way to tell the truth—a dangerous quest that will lead him not only to the sonata’s surprising origins, but to his own.
Stranger From Across the Sea
AvRegina McBride
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
275 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Stranger from Across the Sea is the new novel from acclaimed author Regina McBride. It's a thrilling mystery with a depth of sensation that verges on the supernatural. Stranger from Across the Sea examines the powerful relationships that occur between women, best friends, mothers and daughters, their joys and secrets, their longing and sometimes dangerous jealousy. As a teenager, Violet O’Halloran spent a summer at a Catholic boarding school in Northern Ireland, emptied of all other students but one: Indira Sharma, a blind girl from India with an extraordinary story. The beautiful but ultimately catastrophic friendship that formed between the two girls would go on to haunt Violet for years. A decade later, Violet meets an Irishman, Emmett Fitzroy, at a party in New York City and is swept into an intense romance that brings her back to Ireland. While there, she unearths the stunning answers to mysteries left unresolved when Indira vanished from her life. Set in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles, Stranger from Across the Sea explores place, displacement, and exile and the ways in which the personal and the political are inseparable. At its heart, this is a story about a passionate friendship between two singular young women, one that transcends the limits of time and distance.
Eternity
AvDavid Plante
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
190 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In London, Ted, a lapsed American Catholic married to a British woman encounters a friend’s child who is studying for his first communion. The boy, Jonathan, is terminally ill and believes the ritual of his first communion might miraculously heal him. Ted sees himself in the boy, and vividly recalls his childhood self. The idea of an eternal afterlife comforts Jonathan, but for Ted the idea represents a kind of dislocation: Is life merely something to be endured in preparation for eternity? Ted believed that as a child and now, in Jonathan, he finds the same beliefs taking hold. He must find a way back to his life and rediscover the profound joy that anchors him in this life, rather than in eternity.
Adjudicator
AvSusan Daitch
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
214 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Award-winning author Susan Daitch's new novel, The Adjudicator, is a visionary cyberpunk mystery that explores the boundaries of consciousness and individual autonomy within an authoritarian state that controls the genetics of its citizens. In a near future where the surveillance state legislates the genetic code of its citizens, babies are created in a laboratory according to a template set by parents and the corporation. It is a utopian world of perfect control, where disease has been eliminated and the human genome has reached apotheosis. Mistakes, though unlikely, still occur, and it is adjudicator Zedi Loew’s job to fix them. One day, a cold case file based on an absurd premise crosses her desk: that gene-coding can go beyond structuring the body, it can alter consciousness. Fearing exposure, Zedi’s boss makes the case top priority, and she has only a few days to solve it. The case will prove to be an entry into a dangerous labyrinth, and Zedi follows a taut thread of information, one which, she will learn, connects to the corporation’s hidden mechanism of power as well as her own origin story.
The Princess and the Goblin
AvGeorge MacDonald
Häftad, Engelska, 2029
245 kr
Kommande
Interpreter
AvDavid K. Shipler
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
269 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
THE INTERPRETERPulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler’s fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians. The Interpreter is based on the true story of a Vietnamese translator who is wounded—not physically—by a love of country too pure for the contaminated choices that confront him. Dragged by an inner search, he has wandered among the neat categories of allegiance imposed by Vietnam’s lifetime of warfare and foreign occupation.But he fits into none of the available boxes—not Communist, not Government, not pro-American, nor any of the assortment of political dissidents who populate the shadowy warrens of Saigon. He finds no home with either the tortured or the torturers. Instead, he tries to interpret Vietnam through an evolving comradeship with an American correspondent, to distant, weary audiences who barely listen anymore. He commits a futile betrayal against the correspondent’s wife. He harbors a secret. He clings to a simple nobility, he believes, as an authentic Vietnamese of transcendent patriotism, and so he keeps his footing in the whirlwind of panic as Saigon falls. By refusing an offer to escape with his family to the US, he consigns his future to an intricate, stumbling dance with the victorious Communist regime.This man is fictionalized, but he is not alone in the world. His torment is a hidden story not only of Vietnam but of the hundreds like him who have interpreted their war-torn countries for the foreigners who fuel the fighting with weapons and blood.
Lovesong for Carlo
AvJoseph Olshan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
269 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Award-winning author Joseph Olshan’s latest novel, Milo’s Reckoning, follows a grieving New York PhD student through an investigation into the death of his mentor, leading him along a trail of dark clues that take him to Italy and beyond.When Milo Rossi, a graduate student in Italian at New York University, learns of the sudden and mysterious death of his mentor, Lenny D'Ambrosio, despite the official ruling of suicide, he suspects foul play. Embarking on a quest for answers, his investigation unexpectedly intertwines with the accidental death of his brother, Carlo, six years prior. As Milo delves deeper, he encounters unsettling truths about his brother's life and death, uncovering a web of secrets and hidden connections. His search takes him across New York City and eventually to Italy, where he stumbles upon a horrifying reality: a network of human sex trafficking and exploitation. Confronted with the harsh realities of human suffering and the complexities of justice, Milo's journey is one of personal reckoning and profound transformation. He must confront his own grief, question his assumptions, and ultimately decide how to respond to the darkness he has uncovered.
Song for the Dead
AvAndrew Cusick
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
163 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
A searingly original story of the tragedies and indomitable ecstasies of youth on the verge of adulthood, Song for the Dead captures the tempest of being a seventeen-year-old boy in a haunting and lyrical still frame.Declan cannot accept the loss of his older brother Mason. Mason’s suicide note said only: I AM NOT GONE, which tortures Declan with the possibility that his brother ran away, that the footage of the boy jumping from the bridge was someone else, and somehow Mason is still alive.For Declan the possibility is both hope and torture. He wants so badly to believe it that he cannot accept the reality of life without Mason. Declan seeks only to escape the present by taking refuge in the past or running headlong into the future. Mason exists in the past and the future, but not in the devastation of the present.Declan can’t move on. Mason seems to be all around him, walking beside him, playing along at band practice, looking out over the water with him at their old surfing spot on the Jersey shore. A song that Mason wrote is growing in popularity and may become a breakthrough hit. Someone is sending him messages on Instagram, claiming to be Mason. It is only a cruel hoax, Declan thinks, but the Instagram ghost knows secrets only Mason could know. Could it be true? Is Mason alive? Maybe Declan can reach Mason somehow, or manage to let him go, if he finishes his brother’s last song.
Cartographer of Sands
AvJason Buchholz
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
190 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Traveling across the landscapes of California, two brothers—a recent parolee and a Berkeley professor—go in search of their teenage sister who has vanished, looking for the reasons why she left home.High in the hills of Berkeley, California, a father summons his two sons, Leonardo, a biology professor, and Gabriel, a recent parolee, and tasks them with locating their seventeen-year-old sister, Lenore, who has vanished, leaving a two-word note that simply reads: I’m okay. The brothers’ quests carry them in opposite directions—one northward to the Oregon border, the other southward to the Mexican border—as they search the length of California not just for their sister but for the reasons why she left home, reasons that will lead them into the heart of their mysterious family vocation of powerful healers.In lyrical and precise prose, Buchholz conjures the lost horizons of the American West. The Cartographer of Sands charts the border territory—between the US and Mexico, between family members, between the ordinary and the mystical. Buchholz maps an undiscovered country of ancestral lineage, family connection, and existential revelation through characters that are at once familiar and profoundly mysterious.
Fantasies of the Body
AvDavid Plante
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
149 kr
Skickas
In this short, masterful gem of a novel, David Plante’s seasoned narrator contemplates the connection between physical beauty and love, drawing on literary references and personal experiences to explore these themes.The unnamed narrator of this brief, urgent novel, a young novelist making his way in the literary world, writes of his fascination with two enigmatic, troubled young men, one a Boston Brahmin and the other a lofty undergraduate at England’s Cambridge University whom the narrator meets during his writer-in-residency. With each young man the narrator engages in a complex relationship filled with intellectual and erotic tension and each relationship leaves him feeling unfulfilled. By contrast, the narrator relates the story of his deep and abiding romantic life with an English poet, who introduces him to the remaining members of The Bloomsbury group as well as E.M. Forster and who guides him toward the publishers who bring out his early work. However, the poet dies young, and the narrator is once against cast adrift and his quest to find new, intimate interactions with the tragic young men he encounters causes him to reflect on the nature of beauty, love, and the intellectual life, emphasizing the transient and often unfulfilled desires that drive human connections.
Sonata in Wax
AvEdward Hamlin
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
217 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
From award-winning author Edward Hamlin comes an immersive, time-hopping musical mystery that intertwines the stories of Elisabeth Garnier, a young Frenchwoman living in World War I Boston, and Ben Weil, an acclaimed music producer whose life is consumed by a lie—and by a bizarre, breathtaking sonata that could destroy him if he can’t uncover its composer’s identity in time."Sonata in Wax is a terrific novel—immersive, compelling, smart, the story propelled by a cast of complex, full-bodied characters and the author’s absolute mastery of the musical worlds he conjures...I’m knocked flat with admiration for this splendid novel.”—Ben Fountain, New York Times bestselling author of Devil Makes Three"A deeply realized tale of the power of music and the anonymity of history."— Kirkus ReviewsAs the Great War rages, a French pianist sits down to play an arrestingly original sonata—a piece so strange and inspired that it could change the course of classical music. The moment is captured on wax cylinders, the recording medium of the day. But in the tumult of war the fragile cylinders vanish, and with them the identity of the brilliant composer and the virtuoso pianist.A century later, five timeworn wax cylinders land on the desk of Ben Weil, a revered classical music producer. From the moment he first plays them in his Chicago studio, Ben knows he’s in the presence of genius. The dazzling piece is years ahead of its time, more Coltrane than Debussy—how could it be?Brought low by a painful divorce, Ben throws himself into unlocking the sonata’s mysteries. But when a renowned pianist stumbles upon the work and takes credit for unearthing it, he’s swept into a lie that could shatter his reputation and his private life at a stroke. Somehow Ben must find a way to tell the truth—a dangerous quest that will lead him not only to the sonata’s surprising origins, but to his own.
Stranger from Across the Sea
AvRegina McBride
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
191 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Stranger from Across the Sea is the new novel from acclaimed author Regina McBride. It's a thrilling mystery with a depth of sensation that verges on the supernatural. Stranger from Across the Sea examines the powerful relationships that occur between women, best friends, mothers and daughters, their joys and secrets, their longing and sometimes dangerous jealousy.As a teenager, Violet O’Halloran spent a summer at a Catholic boarding school in Northern Ireland, emptied of all other students but one: Indira Sharma, a blind girl from India with an extraordinary story. The beautiful but ultimately catastrophic friendship that formed between the two girls would go on to haunt Violet for years. A decade later, Violet meets an Irishman, Emmett Fitzroy, at a party in New York City and is swept into an intense romance that brings her back to Ireland. While there, she unearths the stunning answers to mysteries left unresolved when Indira vanished from her life. Set in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles, Stranger from Across the Sea explores place, displacement, and exile and the ways in which the personal and the political are inseparable. At its heart, this is a story about a passionate friendship between two singular young women, one that transcends the limits of time and distance.
Milo's Reckoning
AvJoseph Olshan
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
212 kr
Skickas
Award-winning author Joseph Olshan’s latest novel, Milo’s Reckoning, follows a grieving New York PhD student through an investigation into the death of his mentor, leading him along a trail of dark clues that take him to Italy and beyond.When Milo Rossi, a graduate student in Italian at New York University, learns of the sudden and mysterious death of his mentor, Lenny D'Ambrosio, despite the official ruling of suicide, he suspects foul play. Embarking on a quest for answers, his investigation unexpectedly intertwines with the accidental death of his brother, Carlo, six years prior. As Milo delves deeper, he encounters unsettling truths about his brother's life and death, uncovering a web of secrets and hidden connections. His search takes him across New York City and eventually to Italy, where he stumbles upon a horrifying reality: a network of human sex trafficking and exploitation. Confronted with the harsh realities of human suffering and the complexities of justice, Milo's journey is one of personal reckoning and profound transformation. He must confront his own grief, question his assumptions, and ultimately decide how to respond to the darkness he has uncovered.
Interpreter
AvDavid K. Shipler
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
217 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
THE INTERPRETERPulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler’s fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians.The Interpreter is based on the true story of a Vietnamese translator who is wounded—not physically—by a love of country too pure for the contaminated choices that confront him. Dragged by an inner search, he has wandered among the neat categories of allegiance imposed by Vietnam’s lifetime of warfare and foreign occupation.But he fits into none of the available boxes—not Communist, not Government, not pro-American, nor any of the assortment of political dissidents who populate the shadowy warrens of Saigon. He finds no home with either the tortured or the torturers. Instead, he tries to interpret Vietnam through an evolving comradeship with an American correspondent, to distant, weary audiences who barely listen anymore. He commits a futile betrayal against the correspondent’s wife. He harbors a secret. He clings to a simple nobility, he believes, as an authentic Vietnamese of transcendent patriotism, and so he keeps his footing in the whirlwind of panic as Saigon falls. By refusing an offer to escape with his family to the US, he consigns his future to an intricate, stumbling dance with the victorious Communist regime.This man is fictionalized, but he is not alone in the world. His torment is a hidden story not only of Vietnam but of the hundreds like him who have interpreted their war-torn countries for the foreigners who fuel the fighting with weapons and blood.
Nyhet
Farther Shore
AvSeth Fleisher
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
296 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
"ASTONISHING…as intellectually daring as it is lushly immersive."—JAMIE FORD New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,"FASCINATING…an absorbing work of historical fiction and an impressive and welcome debut."—KIRKUS REVIEWS“Fiercely intelligent...thrilling questions to wrestle with as our hearts break and repair themselves.”—CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI, author of Last Seen TWO TIMELINES. ONE DEVASTATING INHERITANCE. Inspired by the true story of Eugène Marais, one of history's most extraordinary and forgotten minds.Southern Africa, turn of the twentieth century. Marais is a brilliant naturalist and iconoclastic journalist whose evolving theories about memory, addiction, and the hive mind are decades ahead of their time. But when tragedy strikes, he disappears into a remote African forest—leaving behind his newborn child and his conscience, and embarking on research that will haunt both their lives.Thirty years later, his son Charles—now a professor of ancient Buddhist history at Harvard—discovers that the university's most powerful faculty are mining his father's research to bolster theories of racial hierarchy. Accompanied by a mysterious Jewish graduate student whose fate has become entangled with his own, Charles must journey to South Africa to confront his father, heal his fractured past, and stop a sinister plot taking root at the world's most prestigious institution.Set across two interlocking timelines—from the British concentration camps of the Boer War to the rising shadow of the Third Reich—THE FARTHER SHORE is a heart-wrenching, exhilarating novel about memory, love, and identity, and about the vast distances we'll travel to find our way home.THE FARTHER SHORE explores questions that outlast a single life: what a son owes a parent who left him behind, and what a father owes the child he abandoned; how science can be used to heal or destroy; and how faith, grief, and forgiveness can cross generations. It's a novel about inheritance in every sense—of genius and of guilt, and of the violence that colonialism and fascism leave in their wake—and it offers book clubs and reading groups rich and evocative material to discuss together.For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone, Daniel Mason's North Woods, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being.

Green City Books – förlag

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16 produkter

Nyhet
White Deer
A Novel of Anton Chekhov
AvRegina McBride
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
201 kr
Skickas
In the summer of 1879, on his way to Moscow to study medicine, 19-year-old Anton Chekhov, from a bankrupt merchant class family, stops to spend a restful few weeks in the Ukrainian countryside, staying with his friend, Dr. Mitrofan, who is worried about Anton’s lingering bronchitis. It is here that Anton meets Vera Denisova, also 19, a budding actress, the daughter of theater aristocrats from Volkhov, a neighboring estate. The two spend much of their time wandering Volkhov’s vast property, hoping for a glimpse of a white deer that has been spotted in the back acreage.As they grow closer, Vera confides in Anton about her secret romance and heartbreak over Petya, a servant her age who was gifted at drawing and who she helped to acquire an apprenticeship as a draughtsman in order to leave servitude for good. Anton is fascinated by her obsession, and a triangle forms between Vera, Anton, and the absent Petya. Anton, too, shares his secrets with her, his conflicted relationship with his indigent family and his frustrated wish to publish stories. Surreptitiously through Anton, Vera learns the truth about her family’s declining financial situation and the impending loss of her beloved childhood estate. Together in the long, extended light of summer days, Vera and Anton struggle to come to terms with their feelings for each other and the new profoundly changed world that is waiting for each of them at summer’s end.The final section of the novel charts the correspondence between Vera and Anton over the next two decades. Vera has become a successful actress and Anton, a doctor who treats peasants for free, has more than realized his ambition as a writer. In a final letter to Vera before his death at 44 of tuberculosis, Anton reveals that his play, The Cherry Orchard, was inspired by his time with her at Volkhov.
Sonata in Wax
AvEdward Hamlin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
379 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
"Sonata in Wax is a terrific novel—immersive, compelling, smart, the story propelled by a cast of complex, full-bodied characters and the author’s absolute mastery of the musical worlds he conjures...I’m knocked flat with admiration for this splendid novel.”—Ben Fountain, New York Times bestselling author of Devil Makes Three"A deeply realized tale of the power of music and the anonymity of history."— Kirkus ReviewsFrom award-winning author Edward Hamlin comes an immersive, time-hopping musical mystery that intertwines the stories of Elisabeth Garnier, a young Frenchwoman living in World War I Boston, and Ben Weil, an acclaimed music producer whose life is consumed by a lie—and by a bizarre, breathtaking sonata that could destroy him if he can’t uncover its composer’s identity in time.As the Great War rages, a French pianist sits down to play an arrestingly original sonata—a piece so strange and inspired that it could change the course of classical music. The moment is captured on wax cylinders, the recording medium of the day. But in the tumult of war the fragile cylinders vanish, and with them the identity of the brilliant composer and the virtuoso pianist.A century later, five timeworn wax cylinders land on the desk of Ben Weil, a revered classical music producer. From the moment he first plays them in his Chicago studio, Ben knows he’s in the presence of genius. The dazzling piece is years ahead of its time, more Coltrane than Debussy—how could it be?Brought low by a painful divorce, Ben throws himself into unlocking the sonata’s mysteries. But when a renowned pianist stumbles upon the work and takes credit for unearthing it, he’s swept into a lie that could shatter his reputation and his private life at a stroke. Somehow Ben must find a way to tell the truth—a dangerous quest that will lead him not only to the sonata’s surprising origins, but to his own.
Stranger From Across the Sea
AvRegina McBride
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
275 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Stranger from Across the Sea is the new novel from acclaimed author Regina McBride. It's a thrilling mystery with a depth of sensation that verges on the supernatural. Stranger from Across the Sea examines the powerful relationships that occur between women, best friends, mothers and daughters, their joys and secrets, their longing and sometimes dangerous jealousy. As a teenager, Violet O’Halloran spent a summer at a Catholic boarding school in Northern Ireland, emptied of all other students but one: Indira Sharma, a blind girl from India with an extraordinary story. The beautiful but ultimately catastrophic friendship that formed between the two girls would go on to haunt Violet for years. A decade later, Violet meets an Irishman, Emmett Fitzroy, at a party in New York City and is swept into an intense romance that brings her back to Ireland. While there, she unearths the stunning answers to mysteries left unresolved when Indira vanished from her life. Set in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles, Stranger from Across the Sea explores place, displacement, and exile and the ways in which the personal and the political are inseparable. At its heart, this is a story about a passionate friendship between two singular young women, one that transcends the limits of time and distance.
Eternity
AvDavid Plante
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
190 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In London, Ted, a lapsed American Catholic married to a British woman encounters a friend’s child who is studying for his first communion. The boy, Jonathan, is terminally ill and believes the ritual of his first communion might miraculously heal him. Ted sees himself in the boy, and vividly recalls his childhood self. The idea of an eternal afterlife comforts Jonathan, but for Ted the idea represents a kind of dislocation: Is life merely something to be endured in preparation for eternity? Ted believed that as a child and now, in Jonathan, he finds the same beliefs taking hold. He must find a way back to his life and rediscover the profound joy that anchors him in this life, rather than in eternity.
Adjudicator
AvSusan Daitch
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
214 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Award-winning author Susan Daitch's new novel, The Adjudicator, is a visionary cyberpunk mystery that explores the boundaries of consciousness and individual autonomy within an authoritarian state that controls the genetics of its citizens. In a near future where the surveillance state legislates the genetic code of its citizens, babies are created in a laboratory according to a template set by parents and the corporation. It is a utopian world of perfect control, where disease has been eliminated and the human genome has reached apotheosis. Mistakes, though unlikely, still occur, and it is adjudicator Zedi Loew’s job to fix them. One day, a cold case file based on an absurd premise crosses her desk: that gene-coding can go beyond structuring the body, it can alter consciousness. Fearing exposure, Zedi’s boss makes the case top priority, and she has only a few days to solve it. The case will prove to be an entry into a dangerous labyrinth, and Zedi follows a taut thread of information, one which, she will learn, connects to the corporation’s hidden mechanism of power as well as her own origin story.
The Princess and the Goblin
AvGeorge MacDonald
Häftad, Engelska, 2029
245 kr
Kommande
Interpreter
AvDavid K. Shipler
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
269 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
THE INTERPRETERPulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler’s fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians. The Interpreter is based on the true story of a Vietnamese translator who is wounded—not physically—by a love of country too pure for the contaminated choices that confront him. Dragged by an inner search, he has wandered among the neat categories of allegiance imposed by Vietnam’s lifetime of warfare and foreign occupation.But he fits into none of the available boxes—not Communist, not Government, not pro-American, nor any of the assortment of political dissidents who populate the shadowy warrens of Saigon. He finds no home with either the tortured or the torturers. Instead, he tries to interpret Vietnam through an evolving comradeship with an American correspondent, to distant, weary audiences who barely listen anymore. He commits a futile betrayal against the correspondent’s wife. He harbors a secret. He clings to a simple nobility, he believes, as an authentic Vietnamese of transcendent patriotism, and so he keeps his footing in the whirlwind of panic as Saigon falls. By refusing an offer to escape with his family to the US, he consigns his future to an intricate, stumbling dance with the victorious Communist regime.This man is fictionalized, but he is not alone in the world. His torment is a hidden story not only of Vietnam but of the hundreds like him who have interpreted their war-torn countries for the foreigners who fuel the fighting with weapons and blood.
Lovesong for Carlo
AvJoseph Olshan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
269 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Award-winning author Joseph Olshan’s latest novel, Milo’s Reckoning, follows a grieving New York PhD student through an investigation into the death of his mentor, leading him along a trail of dark clues that take him to Italy and beyond.When Milo Rossi, a graduate student in Italian at New York University, learns of the sudden and mysterious death of his mentor, Lenny D'Ambrosio, despite the official ruling of suicide, he suspects foul play. Embarking on a quest for answers, his investigation unexpectedly intertwines with the accidental death of his brother, Carlo, six years prior. As Milo delves deeper, he encounters unsettling truths about his brother's life and death, uncovering a web of secrets and hidden connections. His search takes him across New York City and eventually to Italy, where he stumbles upon a horrifying reality: a network of human sex trafficking and exploitation. Confronted with the harsh realities of human suffering and the complexities of justice, Milo's journey is one of personal reckoning and profound transformation. He must confront his own grief, question his assumptions, and ultimately decide how to respond to the darkness he has uncovered.
Song for the Dead
AvAndrew Cusick
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
163 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
A searingly original story of the tragedies and indomitable ecstasies of youth on the verge of adulthood, Song for the Dead captures the tempest of being a seventeen-year-old boy in a haunting and lyrical still frame.Declan cannot accept the loss of his older brother Mason. Mason’s suicide note said only: I AM NOT GONE, which tortures Declan with the possibility that his brother ran away, that the footage of the boy jumping from the bridge was someone else, and somehow Mason is still alive.For Declan the possibility is both hope and torture. He wants so badly to believe it that he cannot accept the reality of life without Mason. Declan seeks only to escape the present by taking refuge in the past or running headlong into the future. Mason exists in the past and the future, but not in the devastation of the present.Declan can’t move on. Mason seems to be all around him, walking beside him, playing along at band practice, looking out over the water with him at their old surfing spot on the Jersey shore. A song that Mason wrote is growing in popularity and may become a breakthrough hit. Someone is sending him messages on Instagram, claiming to be Mason. It is only a cruel hoax, Declan thinks, but the Instagram ghost knows secrets only Mason could know. Could it be true? Is Mason alive? Maybe Declan can reach Mason somehow, or manage to let him go, if he finishes his brother’s last song.
Cartographer of Sands
AvJason Buchholz
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
190 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Traveling across the landscapes of California, two brothers—a recent parolee and a Berkeley professor—go in search of their teenage sister who has vanished, looking for the reasons why she left home.High in the hills of Berkeley, California, a father summons his two sons, Leonardo, a biology professor, and Gabriel, a recent parolee, and tasks them with locating their seventeen-year-old sister, Lenore, who has vanished, leaving a two-word note that simply reads: I’m okay. The brothers’ quests carry them in opposite directions—one northward to the Oregon border, the other southward to the Mexican border—as they search the length of California not just for their sister but for the reasons why she left home, reasons that will lead them into the heart of their mysterious family vocation of powerful healers.In lyrical and precise prose, Buchholz conjures the lost horizons of the American West. The Cartographer of Sands charts the border territory—between the US and Mexico, between family members, between the ordinary and the mystical. Buchholz maps an undiscovered country of ancestral lineage, family connection, and existential revelation through characters that are at once familiar and profoundly mysterious.
Fantasies of the Body
AvDavid Plante
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
149 kr
Skickas
In this short, masterful gem of a novel, David Plante’s seasoned narrator contemplates the connection between physical beauty and love, drawing on literary references and personal experiences to explore these themes.The unnamed narrator of this brief, urgent novel, a young novelist making his way in the literary world, writes of his fascination with two enigmatic, troubled young men, one a Boston Brahmin and the other a lofty undergraduate at England’s Cambridge University whom the narrator meets during his writer-in-residency. With each young man the narrator engages in a complex relationship filled with intellectual and erotic tension and each relationship leaves him feeling unfulfilled. By contrast, the narrator relates the story of his deep and abiding romantic life with an English poet, who introduces him to the remaining members of The Bloomsbury group as well as E.M. Forster and who guides him toward the publishers who bring out his early work. However, the poet dies young, and the narrator is once against cast adrift and his quest to find new, intimate interactions with the tragic young men he encounters causes him to reflect on the nature of beauty, love, and the intellectual life, emphasizing the transient and often unfulfilled desires that drive human connections.
Sonata in Wax
AvEdward Hamlin
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
217 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
From award-winning author Edward Hamlin comes an immersive, time-hopping musical mystery that intertwines the stories of Elisabeth Garnier, a young Frenchwoman living in World War I Boston, and Ben Weil, an acclaimed music producer whose life is consumed by a lie—and by a bizarre, breathtaking sonata that could destroy him if he can’t uncover its composer’s identity in time."Sonata in Wax is a terrific novel—immersive, compelling, smart, the story propelled by a cast of complex, full-bodied characters and the author’s absolute mastery of the musical worlds he conjures...I’m knocked flat with admiration for this splendid novel.”—Ben Fountain, New York Times bestselling author of Devil Makes Three"A deeply realized tale of the power of music and the anonymity of history."— Kirkus ReviewsAs the Great War rages, a French pianist sits down to play an arrestingly original sonata—a piece so strange and inspired that it could change the course of classical music. The moment is captured on wax cylinders, the recording medium of the day. But in the tumult of war the fragile cylinders vanish, and with them the identity of the brilliant composer and the virtuoso pianist.A century later, five timeworn wax cylinders land on the desk of Ben Weil, a revered classical music producer. From the moment he first plays them in his Chicago studio, Ben knows he’s in the presence of genius. The dazzling piece is years ahead of its time, more Coltrane than Debussy—how could it be?Brought low by a painful divorce, Ben throws himself into unlocking the sonata’s mysteries. But when a renowned pianist stumbles upon the work and takes credit for unearthing it, he’s swept into a lie that could shatter his reputation and his private life at a stroke. Somehow Ben must find a way to tell the truth—a dangerous quest that will lead him not only to the sonata’s surprising origins, but to his own.
Stranger from Across the Sea
AvRegina McBride
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
191 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Stranger from Across the Sea is the new novel from acclaimed author Regina McBride. It's a thrilling mystery with a depth of sensation that verges on the supernatural. Stranger from Across the Sea examines the powerful relationships that occur between women, best friends, mothers and daughters, their joys and secrets, their longing and sometimes dangerous jealousy.As a teenager, Violet O’Halloran spent a summer at a Catholic boarding school in Northern Ireland, emptied of all other students but one: Indira Sharma, a blind girl from India with an extraordinary story. The beautiful but ultimately catastrophic friendship that formed between the two girls would go on to haunt Violet for years. A decade later, Violet meets an Irishman, Emmett Fitzroy, at a party in New York City and is swept into an intense romance that brings her back to Ireland. While there, she unearths the stunning answers to mysteries left unresolved when Indira vanished from her life. Set in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles, Stranger from Across the Sea explores place, displacement, and exile and the ways in which the personal and the political are inseparable. At its heart, this is a story about a passionate friendship between two singular young women, one that transcends the limits of time and distance.
Milo's Reckoning
AvJoseph Olshan
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
212 kr
Skickas
Award-winning author Joseph Olshan’s latest novel, Milo’s Reckoning, follows a grieving New York PhD student through an investigation into the death of his mentor, leading him along a trail of dark clues that take him to Italy and beyond.When Milo Rossi, a graduate student in Italian at New York University, learns of the sudden and mysterious death of his mentor, Lenny D'Ambrosio, despite the official ruling of suicide, he suspects foul play. Embarking on a quest for answers, his investigation unexpectedly intertwines with the accidental death of his brother, Carlo, six years prior. As Milo delves deeper, he encounters unsettling truths about his brother's life and death, uncovering a web of secrets and hidden connections. His search takes him across New York City and eventually to Italy, where he stumbles upon a horrifying reality: a network of human sex trafficking and exploitation. Confronted with the harsh realities of human suffering and the complexities of justice, Milo's journey is one of personal reckoning and profound transformation. He must confront his own grief, question his assumptions, and ultimately decide how to respond to the darkness he has uncovered.
Interpreter
AvDavid K. Shipler
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
217 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
THE INTERPRETERPulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler’s fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians.The Interpreter is based on the true story of a Vietnamese translator who is wounded—not physically—by a love of country too pure for the contaminated choices that confront him. Dragged by an inner search, he has wandered among the neat categories of allegiance imposed by Vietnam’s lifetime of warfare and foreign occupation.But he fits into none of the available boxes—not Communist, not Government, not pro-American, nor any of the assortment of political dissidents who populate the shadowy warrens of Saigon. He finds no home with either the tortured or the torturers. Instead, he tries to interpret Vietnam through an evolving comradeship with an American correspondent, to distant, weary audiences who barely listen anymore. He commits a futile betrayal against the correspondent’s wife. He harbors a secret. He clings to a simple nobility, he believes, as an authentic Vietnamese of transcendent patriotism, and so he keeps his footing in the whirlwind of panic as Saigon falls. By refusing an offer to escape with his family to the US, he consigns his future to an intricate, stumbling dance with the victorious Communist regime.This man is fictionalized, but he is not alone in the world. His torment is a hidden story not only of Vietnam but of the hundreds like him who have interpreted their war-torn countries for the foreigners who fuel the fighting with weapons and blood.
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Farther Shore
AvSeth Fleisher
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
296 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
"ASTONISHING…as intellectually daring as it is lushly immersive."—JAMIE FORD New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,"FASCINATING…an absorbing work of historical fiction and an impressive and welcome debut."—KIRKUS REVIEWS“Fiercely intelligent...thrilling questions to wrestle with as our hearts break and repair themselves.”—CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI, author of Last Seen TWO TIMELINES. ONE DEVASTATING INHERITANCE. Inspired by the true story of Eugène Marais, one of history's most extraordinary and forgotten minds.Southern Africa, turn of the twentieth century. Marais is a brilliant naturalist and iconoclastic journalist whose evolving theories about memory, addiction, and the hive mind are decades ahead of their time. But when tragedy strikes, he disappears into a remote African forest—leaving behind his newborn child and his conscience, and embarking on research that will haunt both their lives.Thirty years later, his son Charles—now a professor of ancient Buddhist history at Harvard—discovers that the university's most powerful faculty are mining his father's research to bolster theories of racial hierarchy. Accompanied by a mysterious Jewish graduate student whose fate has become entangled with his own, Charles must journey to South Africa to confront his father, heal his fractured past, and stop a sinister plot taking root at the world's most prestigious institution.Set across two interlocking timelines—from the British concentration camps of the Boer War to the rising shadow of the Third Reich—THE FARTHER SHORE is a heart-wrenching, exhilarating novel about memory, love, and identity, and about the vast distances we'll travel to find our way home.THE FARTHER SHORE explores questions that outlast a single life: what a son owes a parent who left him behind, and what a father owes the child he abandoned; how science can be used to heal or destroy; and how faith, grief, and forgiveness can cross generations. It's a novel about inheritance in every sense—of genius and of guilt, and of the violence that colonialism and fascism leave in their wake—and it offers book clubs and reading groups rich and evocative material to discuss together.For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone, Daniel Mason's North Woods, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being.

Green City Books – förlag

White Deer

Sonata in Wax

Stranger From Across the Sea

Eternity

Adjudicator

The Princess and the Goblin

Interpreter

Lovesong for Carlo

Song for the Dead

Cartographer of Sands

Fantasies of the Body

Sonata in Wax

Stranger from Across the Sea

Milo's Reckoning

Interpreter

Farther Shore

Green City Books – förlag

White Deer

Sonata in Wax

Stranger From Across the Sea

Eternity

Adjudicator

The Princess and the Goblin

Interpreter

Lovesong for Carlo

Song for the Dead

Cartographer of Sands

Fantasies of the Body

Sonata in Wax

Stranger from Across the Sea

Milo's Reckoning

Interpreter

Farther Shore