Mother Pleiades

William Heinesen

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• Heinesen's novels always contain the portrait of what might be termed a "good" woman: Simona in Windswept Dawn, Eliana in The Lost Musicians, Liva in ... Lees meer

The Rehearsals

Vladimir Sharov

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• New Jerusalem Monastery, seventeenth-century Moscow. Patriarch Nikon has instructed an itinerant French dramatist to stage the New Testament and haste... Lees meer

The Dedalus Book of Faroese Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Europe | nr. 5
• The Dedalus Book of Faroese Literature offers a wide-ranging selection of fiction from the end of the nineteenth century until the present day, includ... Lees meer

Everybody Dies in This Novel

Beka Adamashvili

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• One day Memento Mori realises that he is a character in a book who has the power to travel from one book to another. He decides to strike against evil... Lees meer

Be as Children

Vladimir Sharov

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• At the center of Be As Children is an ailing Vladimir Lenin, infected not with syphilis, as some historians have claimed, but with Christian fervor. R... Lees meer

Human Sadness

Goderdzi Chokheli

• Paperback | Engels | Europe | nr. 4
• Human Sadness is a classic Georgian novel translated into English for the first time. Set in the harsh mountain world of Soviet Georgia, Goderdzi Chok... Lees meer

Lobster

Guillaume Lecasble

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• Aboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina devour his father, before being plucked out of the aquarium himself. Just as he is put in the boiling pot... Lees meer

The Devil's Road

Jean-Pierre Ohl

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• While draining a pond during work for the construction of the Stockton to Darlington Railway George Stephenson's workers discover a female corpse with... Lees meer

Slav Sisters

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• This anthology illustrates the evolution of Russian women's writing over the 20th century. Women produced literary texts as early as the Middle Ages, ... Lees meer

Prague

Andrey Vlasov

• Paperback | Engels | Europe | nr. 1
• Narrow, medieval paved bystreets, ornate stone bridges, pointed city halls, tempting smell of tasty and full-flavored food, cozy and slightly mysterio... Lees meer

The Ridiculous Age

Margherita Giacobino

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• While the radio announcer reports new conflicts and atrocities every day and beggars line the pavements outside her comfortable apartment, the old wom... Lees meer

The Adventures of Edward the Baby Liraffe

Jack Le Raff

• Paperback | Engels | Europe | nr. 2
• In the depths of Southern Africa lives a loveable baby animal, half lion half giraffe. Young Edward is an adventurous type and as soon as he discovers... Lees meer

The Interpreter

Diego Marani

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• The Interpreter follows on from New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs and forms a trilogy of novels on the theme of language and identity.... Lees meer

The Adventures of Edward the Baby Liraffe

Jack Le Raff

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• In the depths of Southern Africa lives a loveable baby animal, half lion half giraffe. Young Edward is an adventurous type and as soon as he discovers... Lees meer

The Lost Musicians

William Heinesen

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• Set in the Faroese town of Torshavn at the beginning of the 20th century, this is the story of a group of musicians - the Boman Quartet - who find san... Lees meer

Before and During

Vladimir Sharov

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late-Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surround... Lees meer

My Father's House

Karmele Jaio

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• Ismael, a successful novelist, has been suffering from writer's block for two years, trying to get inside his female narrator's head and failing. Howe... Lees meer

The Black Cauldron

William Heinesen

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• The Black Cauldron is not a war novel as such, but a work of magic realism which traces a series of boisterous, tragi-comic events in one of the more ... Lees meer

The Celestial City

Diego Marani

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• A young man plunges into student life, in flight from an overbearing father, in search of an identity of his own making. He is like everyone else in h... Lees meer

What Became of the White Savage

Francois Garde

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• Some time in the 1840s, Narcisse, a young French sailor is abandoned on the coast of Australia and given up for dead by his shipmates. Seventeen years... Lees meer

Grand Solo for Anton

First Last

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• When Anton wakes up one morning and discovers that he is the only person left in the world, he accepts the situation with remarkable ease. Soon, he fi... Lees meer

The Tower at the Edge of the World

William Heinesen

• Paperback | Engels | Europe
• The Tower at the Edge of the World is William Heinesen's last novel written when he was 76, and is the summation of all of his work. He is one of the ... Lees meer