Passion consumes Henri, a chef with Napoleon's army, and Villanelle, who has lost her heart to a married noblewoman, until the two meet at the gates of Moscow and form a bond based on bitter loss. Forfatter: Jeanette Winterson Forlag: Grove Press Udgivelsesår: 1987 Sider: 160 Sprog: Engelsk
One of the Best Books of the Year: Newsday, The Times, The Observer, Mail on Sunday This “gorgeous treat of a novel” (The Times, Book of the Month) is a funny, sexy, irreverent, and intensely moving portrait of what unites human beings when their sacred mysteries are blown apart. Avoiding the trauma of the First World War, Piet Barol heads into Africa’s greatest forest. With a business to build and secrets to escape, he’s running out of time to make his own luck. His African guides have reasons of their own for taking him to their ancestral lands – where he finds a prize beyond his wildest imaginings. To get it, he must use every weapon at his disposal. As the story moves to its devastating conclusion, every character becomes a suspect, and Piet’s gamble sets him on a collision course with forces he cannot control. An exquisite, deeply human tale of temptation and theft, set against the
The acclaimed author of "The Book of Evidence" takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of serpentine menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. Winner of the Lannan Literary Award. Forlag: Picador Udgivelsesår: 1998 Sider: 405 Sprog: Engelsk
En ung russer fortæller om sin families liv i Sibirien gennem alle sovjetsamfundets omskiftelser, båret oppe af mormoderens minder om et smukt og sorgløst Paris før 1. verdenskrig
A Novel "One of the best novels I've read this century. Kate Atkinson is a marvel. There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe LIFE AFTER LIFE: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound."--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in any number of ways. Ursula's world is in turmoil, facing the unspeakable evil of the two greatest wars in history. What power and force can one woman exert over the fate of civilization -- if only she has the chance? Wildly inventive, dark
Roman af Vladimir Nabokov om et trekantsdrama mellem en ægtemand, hans hustru og en ung slægtning. Handlingen udfolder sig som et psykologisk spil, hvor rollerne som konge, dame og knægt gengives både gennem personrelationerne og gennem kortspilsmotiver. Tematisk kredser bogen om begær, utroskab, manipulation og identitet, skrevet i Nabokovs karakteristiske stil med ironi, detaljerigdom og leg med fortælleformen. Betragtet som en tidlig, men væsentlig, del af Nabokovs forfatterskab og moderne klassiker inden for russisk/engelsk 1900-talslitteratur i dansk oversættelse. Type: Hardcover Dansk udgave af Vladimir Nabokovs roman "Konge, dame, knægt" (oprindeligt "King, Queen, Knave"). Bogen er en psykologisk og ironisk præget roman om trekantsdrama, begær og bedrag. En ung mand kommer til byen og involveres med både onkel og tante, hvor forholdet mellem konge, dame og knægt spejles i kortspil
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia. First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, "I Served the King of England" is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" ("The New York Times"), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is one of the great moments in his life. Eventually, he falls in love with a Nazi woman athlete as the Germans are invading Czechoslovakia. After the war, through the sale of valuable stamps confiscated fr
