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Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. Now with a new introduction from the author. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments...

In the heat and smoke of a California autumn, the mother of a kidnapped girl finds unexpected guidance from a chatty young crow she names Veronica, who leads her to abandon her self-imposed isolation and seek hope despite her grief-filled limbo. When a crow swoops down on a smoky August afternoon and starts speaking with her, mythology professor Catherine Moss assumes someone is playing a joke. Stuck in the anger stage of grief ever since the disappearance of her daughter, Sierra, Catherine does not tolerate tricksters easily.

Magic and mayhem collide in this fantastical romance in which a cursed cat must use her powers for good and find a suitable match for a young witch, who just so happens to be drawn to a man who is the wrong fit in every way possible. Lady Elizabeth “Lizzy” Devin was once a renowned witch in...

"Bog 2 JULI – SEPTEMBER 1984 ""Tjekhov har engang sagt, at man ikke skal inddrage unødvendige rekvisitter i en fortælling. Hvis der dukker en pistol op, skal den også affyres på et eller andet tidpunkt."" ""Men det her er jo ikke nogen fortælling. Det er den virkelige verden."" Sådan...

Haruki Murakamis forfatterskab blev skudt i gang med to koncentrerede kortromaner, hvoraf denne er en ene. Forfatteren har først nu givet tilladelse til at oversætte ‘Flipperspil 1973’ og ‘Hør vinden synge’. “Der findes ikke perfekt litteratur, ligesom der heller ikke findes...

"Toru Okada er et meget almindeligt menneske; men mystiske begivenheder og mennesker tårner sig op omkring ham, da han hvirvles ind i trækopfuglens krønike." Denne store roman er Murakamis hovedværk. Den leger ubesværet med sprog og genre, veksler elegant mellem realisme og mystik og...

Romanens navnløse fortæller bor i en næsten tom lejlighed i Tokyo med minimal kontakt til andre menneskelige væsener - han har lært sig at dyrke kedsomheden som en kunstart. Men kedsomhedens modsætning - eventyret - sniger sig ind på vores fortæller. Først møder han en ung kvinde med...

What if you were given a second chance at the life you lost—but didn’t understand why. . . . Mesmerized by a scent that comes drifting over the backyard fence one morning, a small terrier follows it for days until she arrives at an unfamiliar house, where a man stands, bent over and retying...

Bogen er en samling historier med jordskælvet i Kobe i 1995 som grundtema. Men det er ikke katastrofehistorier - meget langt fra. De seks fint skårne fortællinger foregår alle sammen på samme tid - omkring en måned efter det voldsomme skælv - men de udspiller sig vidt forskellige steder...

I denne selvstændige fortsættelse af 'En vild fårejagt' møder vi igen den 34-årige tekstforfatter, der leder efter en kvinde, han ikke kan glemme. Det fører ham tilbage til Hotel Delfin, men hotellet er revet ned, og i stedet ligger der et stort internationalt kædehotel. Haruki Murakami...

Oktober – December 1984 "Noget sparkede i det yderste af hans bevidsthed. Og når noget sparkede i det yderste af hans bevidsthed, var han nødt til at finde ud af, hvad det var." I allerførste kapitel af denne tredje og afsluttende bog i Haruki Murakamis romanværk '1Q84' møder vi den...

Biblioteket er et fast indslag i alle Haruki Murakamis romaner. I denne lille fortælling forvandler biblioteket sig til en helt anden verden, hvor en dreng, som bare lige skulle låne nogle bøger om skatteinddrivelse i Osmannerriget, bliver ført dybt ned i en mørk labyrint af gange. Her...

Det er ikke nødvendigt at tilhøre den store Murakami-menighed for at blive dybt charmeret af Haruki Murakamis nye storværk 1Q84. Her viser han alle facetter af sit verdensberømmede talent. Som en rød tråd igennem de tre bøger, der udgør romanen, løber en kærlighedshistorie, der er i...

'Once I've taken his house from him, I will be entering through the front door.' In a garden somewhere in London, a fox is watching a man called Ben and his family through their kitchen doors. The fox has been stealing pieces of their lives - the odd shoe, a colourful sock, various bits of...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE Amanda Leduc’s dazzling new novel follows two walking, talking hyenas as they interact with humans over decades. Blurring the line between human and animal, these strange messengers reveal what is possible when the cages that contain us are broken. In...

The quirky [and] compulsively readable (New York Times) precursor to the 2023 International Booker Prizewinning Time Shelter. Written with a formal playfulness [that] suggests Kundera with A.D.D. (Village Voice), Georgi Gospodinovs The Physics of Sorrow became an underground cult classic upon...

La inédita e inesperada novela de Gabriel García Márquez. Como cada 16 de agosto, Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador para llegar a la isla donde está sepultada su madre, se registra en el hotel habitual, compra un ramo de gladiolos, pasa la tarde en el cementerio y, al día siguiente...

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life, and she writes him stories about beautiful and impossible things. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and unsettling linked collection that lures listeners into...

In 1755, Abel Cloudesley, a London watchmaker and creator of remarkable mechanical automata, is mourning his wife, Alice, who died giving birth to their son, Zachary. Six years later, Abel is further devastated when a freak workshop accident takes Zacharys eye. With his new eye made of gold and...

THE SUMMER YOU WON'T FORGET. As Mel's husband moves out of the family apartment, a man, eerily similar to a past lover of hers, moves in upstairs. When the man's girlfriend joins him, Mel's obsession with the couple builds and the boundaries between the two homes begin to blur. The Couple...