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New York, notte. Un uomo e una donna camminano lungo la Quinta Strada. Entrano in un bar. Ne escono. Un altro bar. E riprendono a camminare, instancabili, come se la notte non dovesse mai finire. Si sono incontrati solo poche ore prima, in una caffetteria nei pressi di Washington Square, come due naufraghi, e ora «sono così tenacemente avvinti l'uno all'altro che la sola idea della separazione risulta loro intollerabile».

Denise Weber hatte keine andere Wahl, als die Schule zu wechseln. Nun steht sie vor dem ersten Tag an einer neuen Schule, voller Hoffnung und Angst zugleich. Dieses fesselnde Buch erzählt die Geschichte eines jungen Mädchens, das trotz schwerer Verluste und schmerzvoller Erfahrungen den Mut findet, sich gegen das Unrecht aufzulehnen.

One by one, they all confess to the murder of their neighbour. The officer takes statements from all three. Each woman has a life – a family – that they don't want to lose. Each woman has a reason for wanting Johnny dead. All of them are lying.

En dokumentarisk roman, der i suveræn sproglig stil giver et enestående indblik i et kvindesind i et psykisk grænseland. Ida er i dag en kvinde med humor, overskud og energi. En kvinde, der kan sige: "Sommetider er glæden ved at slå mig omkuld!

Der 19-jährige Jonas hat mit beidem Probleme: dem Leben und der Erinnerung. Sein Germanistikstudium hat er gerade geschmissen, und der Konfrontation mit seiner schmerzhaften Vergangenheit weicht er aus. Seine erste Klientin ist die exzentrische alte Filmdiva Stella, die in ihrer Autobiografie ihr Leben glücklich und erfüllt darstellen will. Gemeinsam lernen die beiden, dass man jeden Tag so leben muss, als sei es der letzte. Damit man ein Leben führt, das unvergesslich ist.

Велембовская писала о простых людях, их совсем не героической жизни. «Женщины» — проникновенный рассказ о трёх поколениях женщин, чьи судьбы переплетаются в повседневной тишине жизни. Через простые жесты, недосказанность и внутренние переживания Велембовская тонко раскрывает тему материнства, одиночества и женской стойкости.

Сюрреалистическое повествование о художнике с разбитым сердцем, которого во снах преследует тень совы и в чью реальность проникают странные люди, будто посланцы с того света, — женщина с бездонными глазами и старый дервиш с лающим смехом... «Слепая сова» быстро завоевала признание в литературных кругах Европы и стала лучшим произведением иранской литературы XX века.

Death Comes for the Archbishop is a lyrical, fictionalized account of two Catholic priests sent to establish a diocese in the New Mexico Territory in the mid-1800s. The novel follows Father Jean Marie Latour and his friend Father Joseph Vaillant as they travel through the vast, rugged American Southwest, facing cultural challenges, isolation, and spiritual tests.

It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker future, brings home a new wife to Roth. Throughout the summer, the consequences of the marriage reverberate through a village now submerged in a sprawling London suburb. Blinded by lust, Byfield is oblivious to the dangers that lie all about him: the menopausal churchwarden with a hopeless passion for her priest; his beautiful, neglected teenage daughter Rosemary; and the sinister presence of Frances Youlgreave – poet, opium addict and suicide – whose power stretches beyond the grave.

After four years on the run, Kevin Mason and his daughter, Leah, have settled on a small island off the coast off Thailand.

It's short, sharp, gritty, and once you pick it up, you won't put it down until you've completed the whole journey. These are the thoughts and feelings of Kevin Mason aged 16-28 as he spirals out of control and begins a killing spree across the streets of London. Will he be stopped? Will he be caught? Who is his next victim and why? Am I so different from this psychopath? These are the questions you will ask yourself before you turn the last page.

Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man.

In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, who—when she was only a baby—was found hanging dead from a black-tupelo tree in their yard. His killer was never identified, nor has his family, in the years since, recovered from the tragedy. For Harriet, who has grown up largely unsupervised, in a world of her own imagination, her brother is a link to a glorious past she has only heard stories about or glimpsed in photograph albums.

A vibrant portrait of Edwardian England, Howards End examines personal relationships and conflicting values. The Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and their brother, Tibby, place their values in civilized living, music, literature, and conversation with their friends. The Wilcoxes, Henry and his children Charles, Paul, and Evie, are concerned with the business side of life and distrust emotions and imagination.

Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity, and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity, and his motives.

Holly Kendrick’s husband is dead. Holly saw it all. In one violent moment, a hit-and-run accident turns Holly’s life upside down. Then a fixer for the high-powered guilty party approaches Holly with an offer she is in no position to refuse. Holly and her daughter, Savannah, will want for nothing, beginning with a luxury dream house - all for the price of their silence. But when their sudden appearance in privileged Calabasas, California, piques the curiosity of neighbors, the price becomes greater than they imagined.

On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasn’t always like this. Hers is a life founded on darkness. Did what happened to Freya as a child one fateful summer influence the adult she would become – or was she always destined to be that person? Was she born with cruelty in her heart or did something force it into being?

The narrator and central character of The Adolescent is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy full of ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others.

David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his sexuality, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man — a decision that will bring tragedy, longing and regret.

The Gambler paints a stark picture of the attractions—and addictions—of gambling. Using skillful characterization, Dostoevsky faithfully depicts life among the gambling set in old Germany. This probing psychological novel explores the tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler, and Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves.