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Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor
Av Luc Lang
Häftad, 2015
235 kr
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In sixteen ferocious short stories French author Luc Lang encapsulates the brutality of everyday life. Each tale is an admixture of tragedy, comedy, ridicule, and pain. Compassion lurks somewhere, perhaps, but pity is conspicuous by its absence.Lang’s curt, agitated prose disassembles daily life …
Things Seen
Av Annie Ernaux
Inbunden, 2010
366 kr
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Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature“Annie Ernaux’s work,” wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, “represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory.” In the New York Times Book Review, Kathryn Harrison concurred: …
In the United States of Africa
Häftad, 2009
296 kr
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In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and …
Coda
A Novel
Häftad, 2011
186 kr
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"It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story that proves it beyond all doubt." With this sentence René Belletto begins a novel that compresses every genre he has worked in—thriller, science fiction, experimental literature, horror—into one breathless narrative in which what is at …
Things Seen
Av Annie Ernaux
Häftad, 2010
217 kr
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Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature“Annie Ernaux’s work,” wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, “represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory.” In the New York Times Book Review, Kathryn Harrison concurred: …
Dark Heart of the Night
Av Léonora Miano, Editions Plon
Häftad, 2010
251 kr
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What is Africa's own "heart of darkness"? It is what confronts Ayané when, after three years abroad, she returns to the Central African village of her birth. Now an "outsider" with foreign ways distrusted by her fellow villagers, she must face alone the customs and superstitions that bind this clan …
Cousin K
Häftad, 2013
202 kr
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"Such was the battle that raged between Cousin K and me: good done badly; evil done well." And such is the twisted logic of good and bad, right and wrong, knitted into this novella by one of the most powerful voices to emerge from North Africa in our time. With his father brutally killed as a …
Wound
Häftad, 2015
283 kr
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"Where is your wound?" asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound lies four decades back in "the Events" that people have tried to not talk about ever since: the Algerian …
Savage Seasons
Av Kettly Mars
Häftad, 2015
235 kr
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Port-au-Prince, the 1960s: Baby Doc Duvalier and his militia are systematically eliminating opponents to the regime. Daniel Leroy, editor in chief of the opposition newspaper, has just been arrested. To find out what has become of him, his wife, Nirvah, visits Raoul Vincent, secretary of state at …
Children of Heroes
Häftad, 2008
267 kr
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Their father's favorite saying, between drinks and blows, was, "Life holds only bad surprises, and the last one will be death." And now, Colin observes of the man sprawled under all the broken furniture, their father was definitely and forever out of surprises. Children of Heroes is the story Colin …
Political Writings, 1953-1993
Inbunden, 2010
1190 kr
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Maurice Blanchot is a towering yet enigmatic figure in twentieth-century French thought. A lifelong friend of Levinas, he had a major influence on Foucault, Derrida, Nancy, and many others. Both his fiction and his criticism played a determining role in how postwar French philosophy was written, …
Political Writings, 1953-1993
Häftad, 2010
528 kr
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Maurice Blanchot is a towering yet enigmatic figure in twentieth-century French thought. A lifelong friend of Levinas, he had a major influence on Foucault, Derrida, Nancy, and many others. Both his fiction and his criticism played a determining role in how postwar French philosophy was written, …
