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Японский писатель, переводчик, критик, общественный деятель Абэ Томодзи э начал писательскую карьеру как модернист. Профессиональным дебютом писателя стал рассказ «Японо-германские спортивные игры». Позже был издан роман «Зимнее убежище», имевший большой успех и ставший фундаментом для его послевоенных произведений, которые приобрели гуманистический и социально-критический характер. Абэ был убеждён, что литература и писатели должны быть полезны обществу и стимулировать его прогресс.

Abdulrazak Gurnah erzählt klug, mit Wärme und Humor aus dem heutigen Leben junger tansanischer Weltbürger – gelesen von Richard Barenberg Tansania, heute. Drei junge Menschen wachsen hier auf: Karim, der nach seinem Studium mit Ehrgeiz und großen Ideen in seine verschlafene Heimatstadt Daressalam zurückkehrt. Fauzia, die in Karim nicht nur ihren geliebten Partner, sondern auch die Chance sieht, einer allzu behüteten Kindheit zu entkommen.

Es heißt, dass wenn der Fuchs das Lebenselixier bereitet, er sich verwandeln kann. Er muss aber dreimal dem Schicksal des Todes durch den Donner entgehen, ehe er es zur Vollendung bringt. Er hat aber mehrere Arten, dem Schicksal zu entgehen.

南北の動乱が終息し、呉用は江南から救出された。金国では阿骨打が亡き後に呉乞買が即位し、国の体制を整えつつある。梁山泊は、制圧した地域を守りながら、来るべき宋禁軍との全面対決に向けて戦力を蓄えていた。候真は、黒騎兵を抜けて新たな任務に就く。

Märchen bildet in China kein streng gesondertes Gebiet. Von den Ammengeschichten und Fabeln bis zu Göttermythen, Sagen und Novellen sind die Grenzen durchaus schwankend. Es war einmal ein Bauer, der war jung und stark und kam eines Abends spät vom Markte heim. Der Weg führte an dem Garten eines reichen Herrn vorbei, in dem viel hohe Gebäude standen. Plötzlich sah er drinnen etwas Helles in die Höhe schweben, das leuchtete wie einer Kristallperle.

Tras el fenómeno de El consentimiento, traducido en 31 países, aclamado por la crítica y llevado al cine, vuelve Vanessa Springora con una impactante novela que desenmascara el pasado de los hombres de su familia.

Märchen bildet in China kein streng gesondertes Gebiet. Von den Ammengeschichten und Fabeln bis zu Göttermythen, Sagen und Novellen sind die Grenzen durchaus schwankend. Das Wunderbare gehört für China noch zum natürlichen Weltlauf, so dass hier sich keine scharfe Grenze ziehen lässt. Im Westen der Kiautschoubucht ist ein Bergdorf, das heißt das Fuchsdorf, östlich von dem Dorfe steht ein hoher Fels. Mitten durch den Fels geht eine Höhle, rund wie der Vollmond.

An old woman, riddled with dementia, walks off into the woods in the middle of the night. A light in the wood draws her to a campfire with two strange, dangerous men, one young and one old, who are there plotting a crime of as-yet-indeterminate purpose. The two men have a job to do. They are hunting something precious but have only been told: you'll know it when you see it.

A woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. While she sits out a two-week Covid quarantine in his apartment, she begins to tell her story. Years ago and desperate for money, she sold herself to a stranger called T. He offered her a suitcase full of money and lavish gifts in exchange for total control of her body. But at the last moment, she aborted the treacherous game and fled.

This is the history of England told in a new way: glimpsed through twenty-five remarkable poems written down between the eighth century and today, which connect us directly with the nation’s past, and the experiences, emotions and imaginations of those who lived it. These poems open windows onto wildly different worlds – from the public to the intimate, from the witty to the savage, from the playful to the wistful. They take us onto battlefields, inside royal courts, down coal mines and below stairs in great houses.

The ripples from a breakup radiate outwards from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts advert sets off a train of tragicomic events that lead to an inevitable conclusion. Tove Ditlevsen’s final novel – published a year before her suicide in 1976 – is a masterful conclusion to a great work of writing: a blackly funny and devastating tour-de-force that pulses with life even as it journeys towards death.

Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family is already in decline, financially ruined by the terrible conflict. Then the household is struck by a series of gruesome murders. Can anyone solve the mystery of these baffling slayings before the Omari line is extinguished entirely? To do so, and unravel the killer's fiendish plot, they will have to delve into the family's past, where a dark and deadly secret has been festering for decades...

Ayumi is a young man with special powers to bring back the dead to meet the living. A gift passed down in his family, he is able to arrange meetings according to strict rules and always under a full moon. After years in this role, he begins to question its meaning, and how his powers affect his own desires in the real world. Find out how Ayumi and his clients learn to lose their regrets, open up to the unexpected, and cherish what they already have in this profound and moving novel by Japan's leading storyteller.

Though it is mysteriously located at an uncertain address, the Kokoro clinic can always be found by those who need it. And it has proven time after time that a prescribed cat has the power to heal the emotional wounds of all its patients.

Parce qu'ils sont tous les deux pères célibataires, divorcés et amis de toujours, Mathias et Antoine décident d'emménager ensemble en plein cœur de Londres. Entre les courses, la garde des enfants et les copains du quartier français, un joyeux désordre règne sur le clan recomposé. Mais le cœur a ses raisons que l'amitié ne connaît pas... Et l'amour, cette fâcheuse manie d'ignorer toutes les règles...

Zur Tangzeit lebte ein Mann namens Liu I, der war in seiner Doktorprüfung durchgefallen. So reiste er wieder nach Hause zurück. Sechs, sieben Meilen hatte er hinter sich, da flog im Feld ein Vogel auf. Sein Pferd ward scheu und rannte über zehn Meilen weit, ehe es sich halten ließ. Da sah er eine Frau, die hütete Schafe am Abhang eines Berges. Er blickte sie an; sie war wunderschön von Angesicht, doch drückten ihre Mienen geheimen Kummer aus. Verwundert fragte er sie, was ihr fehle.

Life for Winona Dalloway is not as it should be. Her husband is no longer her husband, her children are not at home with her, and the city in which she lives is besieged by fires. Black ash falls like snow, songbirds screech like dinosaurs, and the doctors are calling her mad ... In this looking-glass world, Winona is forced to prove she is a sane, rational human being. As the pronouncements of the professionals grow more insistent, so too do the voices crowding inside Winona's head.

Composed of thirteen indelible stories, Roberto Bolaño’s The Return is preoccupied with ghosts: troubled souls haunting society’s margins, lovers lost to the ages, young men who no longer recognize themselves in the mirror, fresh corpses afforded no peace, departed poets who visit us in dreams. These tales capture the extremes of human experience—sex, violence, death—and the mundane acts that linger in between, with Bolaño’s inimitable mordant humor and trenchant insight into what drives us.

An aging Buenos Aires judge retires to the family ranch in the Pampas to battle feral rabbits and reclaim the dignity of the gaucho life. A detective investigates a series of grisly murders—among his fellow sewer rats. An obscure Argentinian novelist journeys to Paris to face down the filmmaker who has been plagiarizing his work for years. Riffing on Borges and Kafka yet utterly and inimitably Bolaño, the stories of The Insufferable Gaucho are a testament to his mastery of the short form.

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.