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Der Schriftsteller Tonio Kröger ist zwischen der Verachtung für die Banalität des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Sehnsucht nach dem gewöhnlichen menschlichen Glück hin- und hergerissen. Schon als Schüler sucht er beständig die Anerkennung seines Freundes Hans Hansen, der, als Sohn aus reichem Hause, ein Ideal verkörpert, das das genaue Gegenteil seiner selbst ist. Später findet er in der russischen Künstlerin Lisaweta Iwanowna eine Freundin und Vertraute.

A collection of original radio dramas by the much-loved Irish literary legent One of Ireland’s greatest contemporary authors, William Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times, and was shortlisted four times for the Man Booker Prize. He received an honorary CBE in 1977 for his services to...

Brought to you by Penguin. London, 1990. Zivoin is newly arrived in a strange country. The dependable oldest son, he works all hours of the day and night, sending every penny he can save back to his family. On the news, he watches his homeland, Yugoslavia, slowly fracturing. Thousands of miles...

Experience a shipwrecked sailor’s disintegration into ‘a naked madman on a rock’ by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Marlon James A Penguin Classic Glistening limpets. Lobster claws. Wild tangles of seaweed. Slowly, his eyes open. Everywhere, there...

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Ben Okri A Penguin Classic When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deer’s brain. They...

Ada lives a solitary life. She spends her days in her London apartment building’s swimming pool, occasionally visiting with her cousin Francesca and meeting her friends, each of them chatting, drinking, posing invitations Ada ignores. Ada's parents are recently divorced after her father became a bodybuilder: he spends his days at the gym, which is crowded and bright, warm with human proximity, infrequently calling to express minor concerns around his daughter's well-being...

Question everything in this philosophical tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by John Gray A Penguin Classic Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as...

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A woman’s desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico–US border wars. Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender radically recasts the story of how the West was “won.” In the...

From the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Light Between Oceans comes a breathtaking and epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia—about tragedy, family secrets, and the enduring power of love. When we do something that can’t be undone or mended, how do we go on living? How do we...

For fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother's surprise stash of rare pills, or suffer the consequences. Arvy Keening is just trying to get through the week. Tantalizingly...

From the author of Confessions of the Fox comes a novel in which a yenta on her deathbed gives an unrepentant account of all her failures—including her child. “From one of our most fearless living novelists comes this extraordinary book. No half measures here, just big ideas and living...

A taut psychological thriller about the hidden demons that guide our convictions, our biases, and our deepest desires, available in English for the first time from “Japan’s Agatha Christie.” (The Sunday Times) In the middle of the night, a car drives off a pier. An elderly man drowns, but...

One of the great overlooked voices of modern Irish literature, once hailed as “magnificent” by The New York Times, Mary Lavin’s fiction is now being revived for a new generation of readers in this definitive volume, selected and introduced by Colm Tóibín. During her lifetime, Irish...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades. It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester...

Available in English at last, the international bestseller from one of Japan's most acclaimed authors, a touching tale of a broken family contending with the pain of the past to live in the present, helped by the unforgettable dog who becomes their lifeline. Sakura is the story of a family who...

Es ist Spätsommer, als Journalistin Anna März nach Sylt zurückkehrt, um der 85-jährigen Fenja Lorenzen bei der Suche nach ihrer Schwester Martje zu helfen. Denn nach einer Sturmnacht im Jahr 1958 verliert sich jede Spur von ihr. Anna ahnt nicht, dass Martje sich damals in den charismatischen Strandpiraten Hark verliebt hatte und sich nach einem Schiffsunglück auf die Insel Amrum retten konnte. Je tiefer Anna gräbt, desto klarer wird, wie kompliziert das Verhältnis der Schwestern gewesen sein muss, die sich als Kinder abgöttisch liebten, bevor das Schicksal sie auseinanderriss.

シリーズ続々重版！ここは、心がよろこぶ物語(スイーツ)とやさしい「魔法」に癒される場所。毎日がんばるあなたに「月」が寄り添う温かな物語。住宅街に佇む洋菓子店「月と私」。腕利きパティシエなのに自分に自信がない三田村糖花の前に「ストーリーテラー」語部九十九が現れた。

北宇治高校吹奏楽部の活躍を描いた人気青春エンタメシリーズ、初の短編集。葵が部活を辞めた本当の理由が明かされる「あの子には才能がある」、葉月が秀一を好きになったきっかけとその後の顛末をつづった「好きな人の好きな人」、「とある冬の日」では、秀一が久美子についに告白!? など、北宇治吹部の面々の、甘酸っぱくてちょっぴり切ないヒミツの話をたっぷり盛り込んだ、必読の一冊！

Souvenirs from Another Life, the first full-length collection of short fiction by Leah Browning, features an abundant selection of stories. Relationships are at the forefront: those between friends, siblings, partners, or parents and children, as well as the more tangential relationships between neighbors or coworkers.