Bunny Munro er handelsrejsende i skønhedsmidler. Efter sin kones selvmord tager han sin 9-årige søn med ud på landevejene, og mens han udnytter sin seksuelle karisma hos kunderne, sidder drengen alene i bilen med sit elskede leksikon. Turen udvikler sig imidlertid stadig mere bizart, og Bunny bliver klar over, at fortidens synder er ved at indhente ham Titel: The death of Bunny Munro Genre: roman_samtid Sammendrag: Bunny Munro er handelsrejsende i skønhedsprodukter og kronisk utro familiefar. Da hans kone begår selvmord, tager han deres 9‑årige søn med på en salgstur langs den engelske sydkyst. På rejsen forsøger Bunny at fortsætte sit hedonistiske liv, mens drengen i stilhed betragter ham og søger trøst i sit leksikon. Mødet med kunder, tilfældige kvinder og egne dæmoner bliver stadig mere surrealistisk og mørkt, og Bunny tvinges gradvist til at indse konsekvenserne af sine handlinger.
Eddie takes us on a journey which begins in Yemen (before the revolution), then takes us to Northern Ireland (before The Troubles), England and Wales, then across the seas to Europe and America. In a story jam-packed with incident he tells of teddy bear shows on boarding school beds, renouncing accountancy for swordfighting on the streets of London and making those first tentative steps towards becoming an Action Transvestite, touring France in French and playing the Hollywood Bowl Titel: Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens Genre: Biografi Type: Hardcover
In this powerful anthology, Sebastian Faulks, author of the international bestseller Birdsong, and Jörg Hensgen have put together some of the finest fictional writing about war in the 20th century. Whether reporting with sober clarity or raw despair, the assembled novelists each found a way to transcend the facts of death and metal, tanks and blood.Many of the writers are concerned with battle, but others dwell on moments of calm, love, and friendship. From revolutionary Russia to Republican Spain; from the trenches of the Western Front to the skies over Korea and the jungles of Vietnam, this is a book filled with heroism and horror, savagery and compassion, and lightning-flashes of anarchic humor. Included in this collection of war fiction, from the First World War to the Gulf War, are stories by Erich Maria Remarque, Pat Barker, Isaac Babel, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Böll, Norman Mail
Fifteen-year-old Grainne alone after her mother s death is being taken back to Ireland from America by her grandmother. She will meet a father she has never known her heart pulled between a far-distant home and a family she cannot remember. On the rocky shores of Inis Muruch she will discover her own sexual identity even as she struggles to understand the forces that have torn her family apart. There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Muruch--the Island of the Mermaids--a world where myth is more powerful than truth and love can overcome even death. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual first novel weaving together the voices and lives of three generations of Irish and Irish-American women. Years ago the fierce and beautiful Grace stole away from the island with her small daughter Gráinne unable to bear its isolation. Now Gráinne is motherless at fif
"The next time anyone asks me about heaven, hell, purgatory, limbo, or anything related to what awaits us after our earthly lives have ended, I will recommend this excellent new book. Father Grogan's approach is wise without being preachy, scholarly without being overly academic and hopeful without being naive. Highly recommended." (James Martin, SJ) Titel: Where to from Here? Genre: religion_filosofi Sammendrag: Bogen "Where To From Here? – The Christian Vision of Life After Death" giver en kompakt og systematisk introduktion til kristen eskatologi. Brian Grogan SJ beskriver, hvad den kristne tradition siger om livet efter døden, herunder personlig og universel dom, himmel, helvede, skærsild, purgatory og den nye skabelse. Med udgangspunkt i Guds kærlighed og Jesu opstandelse søger han at formulere et håbefuldt, men teologisk ansvarligt syn på det, der venter efter døden. Forfatteren fo
TAPE is an outstanding debut. Told with crackling prose, shimmering with humour and deeply moving, it will haunt anyone who reads it Record a voice and it lasts forever In 1993, Ryan records a diary on an old tape. He talks about his mother s death, about his dreams, about his love for a new girl at school who doesn t even know he exists. In 2013, Ameliah moves in with her grandmother after her parents die. There, she finds a tape in the spare room. A tape with a boy s voice on it a voice she can t quite hear, but which seems to be speaking to her. Ryan and Ameliah are connected by more than just a tape. This is their story." Titel: Tape Genre: ya_ungdom Sammendrag: I 2013 forsøger Ameliah at finde fodfæste efter sine forældres død. Hun flytter ind hos sin mormor og overbeviser sig selv om, at alting sker af en grund. En dag finder hun et gammelt kassettebånd med en drengestemme, som vir
Forfatteren undersøger, hvorfor vores nuværende fødevaresystem fører til stigende fedme, fejlernæring og klimabelastning. Med afsæt i forskning og politisk erfaring præsenterer han en plan for, hvordan vi kan omlægge landbrug, produktion og forbrug, så vi sikrer sundere befolkninger og en mere bæredygtig planet. Type: Hardcover Ravenous er en fagbog om det moderne fødevaresystem og dets konsekvenser for sundhed, klima og samfund. Henry Dimbleby analyserer, hvordan vores måde at producere og forbruge mad på påvirker fedme, folkesundhed, miljø og biodiversitet, og han fremlægger konkrete forslag til reformer af fødevarepolitik og landbrug. Bogen kombinerer forskning, politiske perspektiver og personlige erfaringer og argumenterer for en gennemgribende madrevolution til gavn for både mennesker og planeten.
Death of a salesman
