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Autobiography of Red
A Novel in Verse
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 1999
199 kr
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The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain …
Men in the Off Hours
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 2001
149 kr
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Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure. In Men in the …
Secret History
Av Donna Tartt
Häftad, 2004
4,2 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (6)
169 kr
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE 'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" ( Village Voice ) , f rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch. One of The …
House on Mango Street
Häftad, 1991
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
157 kr
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A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2025 Ivan …
American Psycho
Häftad, 2006
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (8)
159 kr
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. "A seminal book.” — The Washington Post One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 …
Weather
Av Jenny Offill
Häftad, 2021
160 kr
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Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the …
American Psycho
Häftad, 1991
171 kr
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. "A seminal book.” — The Washington Post One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 …
Leave Society
Av Tao Lin
Häftad, 2021
287 kr
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From the acclaimed author of Taipei , a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives—artist, son, loner—as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together. In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan …
Please Look After Mom
A Novel
Häftad, 2012
155 kr
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE • When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they …
The Queen's Gambit
A Novel
Av Walter Tevis
Häftad, 2003
160 kr
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now a highly acclaimed, award-winning Netflix series. Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and …
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Novel
Häftad, 1999
155 kr
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A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Speaking to us with the …
Sweetbitter
A Novel
Häftad, 2017
287 kr
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaurants in Manhattan. • "Brilliantly written.... Outstanding." — The New York …
Astonish Me
Häftad, 1900
207 kr
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle comes "a novel you must read" ( The Washington Post ) about a mother who is trying to forget her past as a young ballerina in Paris who fell into a passionate romance with a Soviet dance superstar. For years Joan has been trying to find …
Plainwater
Essays and Poetry (By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 2000
199 kr
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The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and …
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 2006
186 kr
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"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." -- The Economist Simone Weil described “decreation” as “undoing the creature in us” -- an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic …
Red Doc>: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 2014
207 kr
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Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc> continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names. To live past the end of your myth is …
If Not, Winter
Fragments of Sappho
Av Sappho
Häftad, 2003
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
297 kr
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In this "gorgeous translation" ( The New York Times ), one of our most fearless and original poets provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has …
Dog Stars (Movie Tie-in Edition)
A Novel
Av Peter Heller
Häftad, 2026
155 kr
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Hig's wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a …
Interior Chinatown
A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Av Charles Yu
Häftad, 2020
199 kr
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2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." -The Washington Post Soon to be a Hulu series: from the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a deeply personal novel about race, pop …
The Dog Stars
Av Peter Heller
Häftad, 2013
279 kr
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THE ROAD - but with hope. Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for - his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour, and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his beloved plane for short journeys, and saves his …
Push (Revised)
Av Sapphire
Häftad, 2021
207 kr
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A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel 'PUSH' by Sapphire , whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers. “Affecting and impassioned . . . sails on the strength of …
Everything Inside: Reese's Book Club
Stories
Häftad, 2020
277 kr
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • "Un forgettable tales of families and lovers—from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond—often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.” — Vanity Fair • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century A romance …
Paprika
Häftad, 2013
246 kr
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Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a mind-bending narrative about a psychiatric institute that has developed the technology to invade people's dreams. When prototype models of a dream-invading device go missing at the Institute …
