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28 produkter
She Who Remains
Häftad, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
167 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026High in the Accursed Mountains, in a village ruled by the ancient laws of the Kanun, Bekija escapes an arranged marriage by becoming a sworn virgin, renouncing her womanhood to live as a man. Her decision sets off a brutal chain of events, …
Anomaly
Häftad, 2024
169 kr
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New Year’s Eve. The last day of the last year of human existence. A high-ranking minister criss-crosses the city with blood on his hands, a dying necrophile attempts to go clean before God, and a traumatized nurse is pressured into keeping a powerful secret. With undisguised glee, a nameless …
Shadows on the Tundra
Häftad, 2018
157 kr
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An extraordinary piece of international survival literature, joining the likes of Primo Levi and Anne Frank.In 1941, 14-year-old Dalia and her family are deported from their native Lithuania to a labour camp in Siberia. As the strongest member of her family she submits to twelve hours a day of …
Soviet Milk
Av Nora Ikstena
Häftad, 2026
169 kr
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Spanning fifty years in the life of a nation, from the end of World War Two to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Soviet Milk gives voice to a Latvian mother and daughter swept up in the tide of history. The mother, a gifted fertility specialist, is exiled to a rural village after defending a patient …
Djinns
Häftad, 2024
167 kr
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For thirty years, Huseyin has worked in Germany, taking every extra shift and carefully saving, even as he provides for his wife and their four children. Finally, he has set aside enough to buy an apartment back in Istanbul - a new centre for the family and a place for him to retire. But just as …
Marzahn, Mon Amour
Av Katja Oskamp
Häftad, 2022
157 kr
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A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME - WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2023 - A woman approaching the 'invisible years' of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR's largest prefabricated housing estate, on the …
All My Love
Häftad, 2026
169 kr
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Petra and Johannes seem made for one another. A lawyer and a doctor. Well brought up, ambitious. Their friends Julia and Axel are different - from them, and from each other. Julia fights for her convictions. Axel manoeuvres his way to political power. Desire moves like an undertow between them all, …
Half Swimmer
Av Katja Oskamp
Häftad, 2024
169 kr
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Half Swimmer. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn’t yet mastered the technique.Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set up to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. Except she has other ideas. …
Nordic Fauna
Häftad, 2021
136 kr
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A train stops on the tracks in the middle of the night and a lone woman steps out, following a call from deep in the forest.In these six richly imagined short stories, Andrea Lundgren explores a liminal space where the town meets the wilderness and human consciousness meets something more …
Her Father's Daughter
Av Marie Sizun
Häftad, 2016
157 kr
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A little girl lives happily with her mother in war-torn Paris. She has never met her father, a prisoner of war in Germany. But then he returns and her mother switches her devotion to her husband. The girl realizes that she must win over her father to recover her position in the family. She confides …
Of Saints and Miracles
Av Manuel Astur
Häftad, 2022
169 kr
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Marcelino lives alone on his parents' farm, set deep in the beautiful but impoverished countryside of northern Spain. It's the place where he grew up, the place where he doted on his beloved baby brother and protected his mother from his father's drunken rages. But when Marcelino's brother tricks …
Sea Now
Av Eva Meijer
Häftad, 2025
167 kr
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The country is flooding. Every day the sea claims another kilometre of land. The prime minister holds a daily press conference. Scientists try to find an explanation, without success. Sheep drown in the fields, weighed down by their waterlogged fleeces. The museums are emptied of their valuable …
Next World Novella
Häftad, 2011
132 kr
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Hinrich takes his existence at face value. His wife, on the other hand, has always been more interested in the after-life. Or so it seemed. When she dies of a stroke, Hinrich goes through her papers, only to discover a totally different perspective on their marriage. Thus commences a dazzling …
Maybe This Time
Häftad, 2011
119 kr
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A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria's most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbours. A large family gathers for Christmas only to wait for the one member who never turns up. An old woman lures a man into her house where he finds dolls …
Brothers
Av Asko Sahlberg, Emily Jeremiah
Häftad, 2012
157 kr
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Finland, 1809. Henrik and Erik are brothers who fought on opposite sides in the war between Sweden and Russia. With peace declared, they both return to their snowed-in farm. But who is the master? Sexual tensions, old grudges, family secrets: all come to a head in this dark and gripping saga. …
Murder of Halland
Av Pia Juul
Häftad, 2012
132 kr
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Bess and Halland live in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else. When Halland is found murdered in the main square the police encounter only riddles. For Bess bereavement marks the start of a journey that leads her to a reassessment of first friends, then family. ------- Why Peirene chose …
And the Wind Sees All
Häftad, 2018
157 kr
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In this story we hear the voices of an Icelandic fishing village. On a summer's day a young woman in a polka-dot dress cycles down the main street. Her name is Kata and she is the village choir conductor. As she passes, we glimpse the members of the village: a priest with a gambling habit, an old …
Yesterday
Av Juan Emar
Häftad, 2021
157 kr
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In San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what’s waiting around the corner. Over the course of a single day – the day before today – the hero of this novel and his adored wife embark on a journey through the absurd and the surreal, encountering a choir of monkeys and a carnivorous ostrich, …
Body Kintsugi
Av Senka Maric
Häftad, 2022
169 kr
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Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with liquid gold, to highlight and celebrate an object's past. In this powerful and personal novella, Senka Maric uses the concept of kintsugi to interrogate ideas of illness, survival and recovery.Two months after her husband packs his bags …
History: A Mess
Häftad, 2023
169 kr
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A young PhD student believes she has uncovered the first professional female artist in Britain. It’s a discovery that could transform her career and reputation. However, in her haste to break new ground, she has made a simple mistake whichthreatens everything –and she won’t acknowledge her error …
As The Eagle Flies
Häftad, 2023
169 kr
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‘A subtle, singular novel of profound insight, delivered in a voice so hilarious, intimate and frank, it was as if I suddenly had a zany French genius for my best friend. I enjoyed this book so much it felt illicit.’ ISOBEL WOHL, AUTHOR OF COLD NEW CLIMATE --- This is the story of an affair, or …
Gloria
Häftad, 2024
169 kr
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The Alencar Costa e Oliveira family talk to each other through inside jokes, often saying the opposite of what they mean, or repeating the same sentence until it acquires new meaning. But they also have a dark inheritance: every member of the family has died of the same cause – acute …
Simple Intervention
Av Yael Inokai
Häftad, 2024
169 kr
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A ground-breaking surgical intervention promises to free people from psychological disorders. The procedure is painless, the risks are minimal, and patients are calmer and more compliant after healing. The doctor promises them a new and productive life, free from suffering - can it be so …
About Uncle
Häftad, 2024
169 kr
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In a small seaside town on the French coast lives Uncle. He shares his house with his niece and nephew, who look afterhim when they could be doing something - anything - else. A disabled veteran with odd habits, Uncle is prone to drinking,hoarding and gorging, not to mention the occasional …
Un Amor
Av Sara Mesa
Häftad, 2024
169 kr
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A claustrophobic story of desire and small town unease in the vein of Dogville or Coetzee’s Disgrace.On the heels of a cryptic mistake, Nat arrives in the rural village of La Escapa. She rents a small house from a negligent landlord, adopts a dog and begins to work on her first literary …
Imagine Breaking Everything
Häftad, 2025
169 kr
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It's a rainy weekend in Bogota, and eighteen-year-old Melissa is about to graduate from school. If, that is, she can scrape together the money to pay for the printer she broke. Melissa used to break a lot of things, but after five years of living with her aunt Anahi, she has become much better at …
Gjak
Häftad, 2026
169 kr
Kommande
A modern classic from Greece, now in English for the first time.Greece, a hundred years ago: in the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War, young men return from the battlefield, forever changed by what they have seen and done. They come home seeking revenge or forgiveness; all of them grieving. They …
Family
Av Sara Mesa
Häftad, 2026
169 kr
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There are no secrets in this family!' proclaims Damian, the father, triumphantly. A secular idealist obsessed with morality and order, he is blind to the cracks in his home's foundations, the oppression that pervades it, and the elaborate fictions his wife and four children devise to survive it. …
