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Häftad, Engelska, 2017
110 kr
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We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called Delta-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in.Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatin’s 1921 seminal novel – here presented in Hugh Aplin’s crisp translation – is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time and a precursor of the works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
123 kr
The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef, Madame Mallory, in the remote French village of Lumière. A culinary war ensues, pitting Hassan’s Mumbai-toughened father against the imperious Michelin-starred cordon bleu, until Madame Mallory realizes that Hassan is a cook with natural talents far superior to her own.Full of eccentric characters, hilarious cultural mishaps, vivid settings and delicious meals described in rich, sensuous detail, Hassan’s charming account lays bare the inner workings of the elite world of French haute cuisine, and provides a life-affirming and poignant coming-of-age tale.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
121 kr
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Phaedrus - a character familiar to readers of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' - is sailing down the Hudson River when he meets Lila Blewitt, an unapologetically sexual, psychologically unstable woman whom a mutual friend warns him against. But Phaedrus is drawn to her physically, and interested in her intellectually, finding her a culture of one in whom he discerns an unexpected Quality. Sailing with him to Manhattan, where her mental state deteriorates further, Lila promps Phaedrus to explore conflicts of values, such as those between Native Americans and Europeans, or between the insane and the normal.
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Häftad, Svenska, 2026
333 kr
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JAG ÄR ALMA är berättelsen om en kvinna som förlorar sig själv för att till slut hitta hem. När världen sätter etiketter på hennes upplevelser och kallar dem sjukdom, vet Alma att det finns något djupare som vill bli förstått. Genom livsomvälvande möten och starka själsliga relationer kastas hon mellan hopp och förtvivlan, kärlek och förlust, uppvaknande och sammanbrott. Varje relation blir en spegel. Varje avsked en inbjudan att släppa taget om den hon trodde att hon måste vara. På sin resa genom kärlekens många ansikten - det karmiska bandet, den omvälvande katalysatorn och den sanna essenspartnern - ställs Alma inför den viktigaste frågan av alla: - Vem är jag bortom mina sår, mina roller och andras berättelser om mig? JAG ÄR ALMA är en berättelse om läkning, medvetenhet och modet att välja sig själv. Om att finna självkärlek, inre frihet och den enhet som alltid funnits där, under allt annat.
Pocket, Svenska, 2016
90 kr
Jon Dreyers liv går i bitar. Hans stora litterära livsprojekt har gått i stå, han är konsekvent och smärtsamt otrogen mot sin fru Siri, något hon i sin tur är plågsamt medveten om. Deras tonåriga dotter är våldsam och oregerlig, och Siri försöker samtidigt förhålla sig till en mor som börjat supa igen efter tjugo års nykterhet.Allt börjar med att barnflickan Mille försvinner utan ett spår. Ovissheten om vad som hänt bultar som ett mörkt hjärta i familjen Dreyers liv. När Mille två år senare hittas död har sönderfallet gått mycket långt. Linn Ullmanns romaner är verkliga gränsgångare mellan kammarspel, släktdrama, kriminalhistoria och mänsklig komedi. Kärleken är både hot och löfte, och i Det dyrbara framstår den med än tydligare skärpa än tidigare som den enda nåd vi människor har.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
135 kr
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Simplicius Simplicissimus – the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language – charts the adventures of its hero, Simplicius, through the horrors of battle, murder, fire and famine, offering an invaluable eyewitness account of the Thirty Years’ War and showing how humanity can, in the end, triumph over brutalityA work of great poetical beauty and satirical strength, and a lasting historical document of timeless value, Simplicius Simplicissimus is one of the greatest picaresque novels in the Western canon.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
98 kr
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Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania – one of the three totalitarian blocks dominating the world – ruled by a mysterious leader called Big Brother who keeps the population in thrall through strict surveillance and brutal police repression. In a society where the individual is suppressed and turned into an “unperson” for not conforming, and where not only personal thought, but also historical record and language itself are constantly being manipulated by the ruling regime, Ministry of Truth worker Winston Smith tries to make sense of the rebellious thoughts and passions that are stirring inside him, and finds himself impotent against the inexorable machine that surrounds him and threatens to crush him at any time.Arguably the greatest dystopian novel of all time and the most influential post-war work of fiction – which enriched the English language with words such as “Newspeak”, “doublethink” and “thoughtcrime” – Nineteen Eighty-Four is a riveting read and a groundbreaking exploration of mass surveillance, censorship and mind control, which has a deep resonance with the world we live in.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
110 kr
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It is a variable early summer’s day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote village in the very heart of England. The local community is all astir, intent on putting the finishing touches to preparations for the annual pageant, which is to be performed there that evening. Among the medley of attendees are Mr Oliver, the owner of the house, the flirtatious Mrs Manresa and her friend William Dodge, who is rumoured to be homosexual, the troubled married couple Giles and Isa, as well as the eccentric spinster Miss La Trobe, the author of the pageant – an ambitious journey through England’s past and literature.Highly symbolic, and dealing with many of the themes that were most dear to Virginia Woolf, such as the condition of the individual in the current of history, sexual ambiguity and the tension between life and art, Between the Acts was the author’s final novel, offering a tantalizing glimpse of the direction her fiction might have taken.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
121 kr
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Traumatized by an accident which ‘involved something falling from the sky’ and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder’s hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them... But when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts re-enacting more and more violent events, as his repetition addiction spirals out of control.A darkly comic meditation on memory, identity and history, Remainder is a parable for modern times.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
174 kr
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Only edition in printFirst published in 1963 and representing Burroughs’s literary breakthrough in the UK, Dead Fingers Talk is, in the words of Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, “a prophetic work of haunting power”, and is perhaps the most commercial and accessible of his works. Combining new material with selections from Naked Lunch and his cut-up novels The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, the book is also a fascinating precursor to remix and mash-up forms in art and music, which owe much to Burroughs’s influence. This newly edited edition of Dead Fingers Talk, based on the restored text of the novel, will delight all Burroughs fans and lovers of experimental literature, and offer a new insight into the artistic process of one of the most original and influential writers of the twentieth century.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
174 kr
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Only UK edition in printCéline’s recently rediscovered novel, London, centres on Ferdinand, the protagonist of War, a shell-shocked French soldier with a severe wound to his ear suffering from vertigo and chronic tinnitus. Having earned a reprieve as well as a medal, Ferdinand has left France to join his prostitute friend Angèle in London. Despite his decoration, he fears being sent back to the front and holes up in an attic room from where his pal, the pimp Cantaloup, runs a flourishing sex-trafficking operation. Populated by unforgettable characters such as the generous Jewish doctor Yugenbitz, the corrupt cop Bijou, an eccentric English aristocrat, a slew of pimps, a rich variety of whores and the revolutionary Borokrom, a former bomb maker, London is a sweeping narrative that deserved to be numbered among Céline’s greatest works, and which is informed, like his masterpiece Journey to the End of the Night, by his own experiences in the British capital and as a young doctor in a working-class suburb of Paris.
E-bok
Svenska, 201579 kr
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Av en slump träffas de på en tågresa i Spanien. De är varandras motsatser. Den trettioåriga Alma, som lever ett ensamt, inrutat liv, fascineras genast av den äventyrliga Lucy. Ingen av dem har några bestämda semesterplaner och de fortsätter sin resa tillsammans. Alma känner stundtals irritation över Lucy som skamlöst flirtar med alla män, berusar sig, ljuger om sin bakgrund, men kan ändå inte lämna henne.
Vågorna Alma, vågorna utspelar sig i ett soldallrande fuktigt Spanien och ett vinterkargt Sverige. Det är en spännande, mångbottnad och sensuell roman, berättad med återhållen intensitet. Och likt de ständigt närvarande vågorna som bryts mot stranden bryts nuet mot det förflutna och mot framtiden.
Cilla Naumann debuterade 1995 med romanen Vattenhjärta, som belönades med Katapultpriset.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
123 kr
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Only edition in printSeveral years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes a story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crêpe socks bring back memories of his attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer. Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov’s characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
123 kr
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Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of his plan, but when he hears that his sister Dunya is about to agree to a loveless marriage in order to escape the advances of her employer, his disgust for the world becomes unbounded, and his feelings of rebellion and revenge push him closer and closer to the edge of the precipice.A masterpiece of psychological insight, Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel features some of its author’s most memorable characters – from the temperamental protagonist Raskolnikov to the amoral sensualist Svidrigailov and the immoral lawyer Luzhin. Presented here in a sparkling new translation by Roger Cockerell, Crime and Punishment is a towering work in nineteenth-century Russian fiction and a landmark of world literature.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
114 kr
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Based on a true story, The Jew’s Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia – the first of a local forester and the second of a Jewish moneylender near a beech tree – and the impact these events have on the life of Friedrich Mergel, a local herdsman with a turbulent family history.A prototype of the murder mystery and a thoughtful examination of village society, this intriguing novella contains hints of the Gothic and the uncanny – ominous thunderstorms, mysterious disappearances, eerie doppelgängers and grisly discoveries in the depths of the forest – as well as a famously ambiguous climax.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
123 kr
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Only edition in printAn unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov is running out of money and has recently divorced from his wife Tatyana, who intends to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha. The prospect of a summer job as a tourist guide at the Pushkin Hills preserve offers him hope of bringing back some balance into his existence, but during his stay in the rural estate of Mikhaylovskoye, Alikhanov's life continues to unravel.
Häftad, Italienska, 2023
297 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
110 kr
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As the ageing Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author who has recently been ennobled in recognition of his literary achievements, arrives in Venice for a holiday and checks into his Lido hotel, he is struck by the arresting good looks of Tadzio, an aristocratic Polish youth of around fourteen who is sojourning there with his family. Gradually, what starts as a feeling of intense curiosity develops into a profound passion, until Aschenbach begins to follow the adolescent secretly through the streets of the Serenissima and becomes utterly infatuated with his beauty.Considered by many to be Mann’s masterpiece, Death in Venice, first published in 1912 and based on the author’s own stay in Venice the previous year, is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Sander Berg.ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Classics Evergreens is a series of popular classics. All the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus and extra reading material, including a section of photographs and notes. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition (or collated from the most authoritative editions or manuscripts) and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.
Häftad, Italienska, 2021
351 kr
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Häftad, Svenska, 2018
258 kr
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Alma kommer full av förväntan till Uppsala stadsteater där hon ska jobba där hon ska jobba som sufflös på en framimproviserad pjäs. Arbetsplatsen har sina hierarkier, som märks, om inte förr, när man trampar i klaveret.Under arbetet börjar Alma minnas hur hon hamnat där: uppväxten i Bosnien före kriget, vännerna, pappan som dog, och inte minst mötet med Sverige, att vara en vanlig tonåring på besök här och samtidigt vara stämplad som Flykting. Och att vara en del av det här samhället men ändå vara lite utanför.
Del 3 - Livsresan
Alex och Alma från Arboga till : en vanlig familj i en bok
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
144 kr
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Alex och Alma har flyttat till Medåker. Båda ursprungligen från Stockholm. De har två barn; Matheus och Irma. sju och fem år. De är båda egna företagare. Alma är massör, bl.a och Alex är fotograf med enskild firma och frilansande journalist. Huset dom köpt har ett förflutet som de inte vet om och det blir en turbulens i deras liv. De har fina grannar som de umgås med men det raserars på ett besynnerligt sätt. Ett arv till Alex kommer att förändra deras tillvaro framåt. Och namnet Bergström får mer och mer en negativ klang. Vilka är dom och vad spelar de för roll. Första boken av tre i en serie som jag kallar "Livsresan"
Del 1 - Immortal Trilogy
Taker
(Book 1 of The Immortal Trilogy)
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
209 kr
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AN IMMORTAL LOVE STORYHave you ever loved someone so much that you'd do anything for them? When Dr Luke Findley turns up to his hospital shift in the small town of St Andrews, Maine, he's expecting just another evening of minor injuries and domestic disputes. But instead, Lanore McIlvrae walks into his life - and changes it forever. For Lanny is a woman with a past...Lanny McIlvrae is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. Hers is a story of love and betrayal that defies time and transcends mortality - but this tale cannot end until Lanny's demons are finally put to rest. Her two hundred years on this earth have seen her seduced by both decadence and brutality - yet through it all she has only ever had one true love in her life. Until now.An unforgettable novel about the power of unrequited love to elevate and sustain, but also to blind and ultimately destroy, The Taker is an immortal love story on an epic scale...
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
224 kr
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A sweeping epic set in medieval China; it is the story of a group of women, the Jin-Shei sisterhood, who form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom.They are bound together by a declaration of loyalty that transcends all other vows, even those with the gods, by their own secret language, passed from mother to daughter, by the knowledge that some of them will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice to enable others to fulfil their destiny.The sisterhood we meet run from the Emperor's sister to the street-beggar, from the trainee warrior in the Emperor's Guard to the apprentice healer, from the artist to the traveller-girl, herself an illegitimate daughter of an emperor and seen as a threat to the throne. And as one of them becomes Dragon Empress, her determination to hold power against the sages of the temple, against the marauding forces from other kingdoms, drags the sisterhood into a dangerous world of court intrigue, plot and counterplot, and brings them into conflict with each other from which only the one who remains true to all the vows she made at the very beginning to the dying Princess Empress can rescue them.An amazing and unusual book, based on some historical fact, full of drama, adventure and conflict like a Shakespearean history play, it's a novel about kinship and a society of women, of mysticism, jealousy, fate, destiny, all set in the wonderful, swirling background of medieval China.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
185 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2010100 kr
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Perfect for fans of Memoirs of a Geisha and Empress Orchid – `The Embers of Heaven’ is a magical epic, with delightful characters, an intriguing scenario and a real feeling of place and history. It has a wonderful combination of character, romantic lives, and spiritual quest, set against a credible historical background.In `The Secrets of Jin-Shei,’ eight women pledge themselves as sisters in the name of jin-shei, the unbreakable bond, the promise that lasts a lifetime. This sisterhood shapes their lives, their country and their world. `The Embers of Heaven’ begins four hundred years later. In eighteenth-century Syai, and its capital city of Linh-an, things have changed beyond recognition.On the face of it, women are more equal than they have ever been. But the men run the machines, the factories, and the technology. Women have lost the ability to weave their fates and influence the course of events. The foundation of an empire once rested on jin-shei and its customs. It connected women from every walk of life and formed a bond that empowered every woman who swore the oath. The advancement of printing, the developments of technology and the changes in society seem to have improved the daily lives of the underclass, but women have been stripped of this sacred pact.Amais is heir to her poet-ancestress's manuscripts and journals. The journals are all in jin-ashu, the women's tongue, taught sketchily to Amais by her mother. Amais has the clear vision of an outsider looking in. Combined with her deep and instinctive bond to her ancestors and her culture, she determines to reinvent the Women's Country and bring the jin-shei back. But just as her crusade begins, she and her family are caught up in the whirlwind of the Golden Rising – a people's revolution that is fated to destroy much that was once valuable, gracious and beautiful.
E-bok
Engelska, 201640 kr
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A sweeping epic set in medieval China; it is the story of a group of women, the Jin-Shei sisterhood, who form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom.They are bound together by a declaration of loyalty that transcends all other vows, even those with the gods, by their own secret language, passed from mother to daughter, by the knowledge that some of them will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice to enable others to fulfil their destiny.The sisterhood we meet run from the Emperor's sister to the street-beggar, from the trainee warrior in the Emperor's Guard to the apprentice healer, from the artist to the traveller-girl, herself an illegitimate daughter of an emperor and seen as a threat to the throne. And as one of them becomes Dragon Empress, her determination to hold power against the sages of the temple, against the marauding forces from other kingdoms, drags the sisterhood into a dangerous world of court intrigue, plot and counterplot, and brings them into conflict with each other from which only the one who remains true to all the vows she made at the very beginning to the dying Princess Empress can rescue them.An amazing and unusual book, based on some historical fact, full of drama, adventure and conflict like a Shakespearean history play, it's a novel about kinship and a society of women, of mysticism, jealousy, fate, destiny, all set in the wonderful, swirling background of medieval China.
Del 2 - Immortal Trilogy
Reckoning
(Book 2 of The Immortal Trilogy)
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
209 kr
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I turned to Luke and reached for him. My blood felt as though it had seized up in my veins."Lanny, what is it?" Luke asked. I clutched his lapel desperately"It's Adair. He's free."FOR 200 YEARS SHE'S BEEN HIDINGHe gave her immortality.She tried to destroy him.Now he is searching for her.They must not meet.Or there will be a RECKONING
E-bok
Engelska, 200797 kr
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Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don’t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .At the start of senior year at William & Mary, the six-foot-tall, raven-haired beauty Victoria “Vic” Savedge finds her future mapped out in detail. She will marry Charly Harrison, the son of one of Virginia’s most prominent families. Though branded by a fiery streak of independence, Vic hasn’t really considered any other options. Until she meets a woman named Chris. A transfer from Vermont, Chris is new to Southern mores and attitudes. Though instantly captivated by Vic, she is also drawn to the entire quirky but charming Savedge family. But the young women’s friendship is not your basic college-girl variety. For neither can resist their mutual attraction–an attraction that erupts into a passion that will forever change the course of both their lives.From the Trade Paperback edition.
E-bok
Engelska, 201197 kr
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An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.From the Trade Paperback edition.
E-bok
Spanska39 kr
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