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  • Eradication

    A Fable

    **A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island, where a conservation assignment becomes a moral reckoning.“An instant classic.” —The Washington Post • “Excellent ” —The New York Times • “Urgent and lyrical.” —NPR“Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected — a story for our times.”—Kevin Barry, author of The Heart in Winter**Reeling from ... Læs mere

    104,99 kr.

  • Eradication

    a moving story of goats, grief and what it means to play God

    'Excellent' New York Times'An instant classic. . . Hamlet but with goats everywhere' Washington Post'Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected - a story for our times' Kevin Barry'A work of genius. Eradication is a beautiful and devastating novel' Luke Kennard**'**A deft, unsettling exploration of what it means to play God'... ... Læs mere

    152,26 kr.

  • Tobit

    This commentary sets the ancient Jewish story of Tobit within a broad tradition-historical context, analyzing the conceptions of angels and demons it contains, as well as its notions of ancient medicine, together with its understanding of the Torah. Presented along with this is a synchronically oriented interpretation of the whole text, which shows that the narrative should ultimately be ... Læs mere

    449,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Anatomy of a Miracle

    A Novel*

    **“Funny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might elsewhere be treated as stock figures...pitch-perfect.”— New York Times Book Review"Miles is a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him."— Los Angeles Review of BooksA profound new novel about a paralyzed young man’s unexplainable ... Læs mere

    50,91 kr.

  • Dear American Airlines

    A Novel

    Sometimes the planes don’t fly on time.Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator, is traveling to his estranged daughter’s wedding when his flight is canceled. Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the purgatory of O’Hare airport, he watches the clock tick and realizes that he will miss the ceremony. Frustrated, irate, and helpless, Bennie does the only thing he can: ... Læs mere

    80,10 kr.

  • Want Not

    A " shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating" novel about the things we desire and the things we throw away ( Entertainment Weekly).A New York Times Notable BookA highly inventive, corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by ... Læs mere

    83,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Once Upon a Time World

    The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

    'Phenomenal... Utterly absorbing' Sunday Times, 'Book of the Week''[A] fabulous romp of a book' ***** Mail on SundayA Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an e... ... Læs mere

    99,88 kr.

  • 聖彼得堡:權力和欲望交織、殘暴與屠殺橫行的三百年史

    ST PETERSBURG: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire

    Serier serie Historia歷史學堂
    《時代雜誌》2017年年度好書政大民族系教授趙竹成 專文推薦她是詩人普希金嘴裡「俄國面向西方的窗口」也是沙皇尼古拉二世口中「是俄國卻又不是俄國人的城市」她的起落,見證了俄國從彼得大帝建城到普丁專政,權力和欲望交織、殘暴與屠殺橫行的三百年史聖彼得堡永遠像是座不可能存在的都城,一七○三年,在彼得大帝堅忍不拔的意志力下,她從冰冷迷霧與涅瓦河的氾濫沼澤地中興起。她是古老國度俄羅斯的新首都,擁有一系列的不同化身,從聖彼得堡、彼得格勒、列寧格勒,再回到聖彼得堡,這座城市一直是恆常充滿矛盾的地方。聖彼得堡也是俄羅斯通往西方與啟蒙思想的窗子,眾多俄國人的榮耀都在這裡開創,這裡有著音樂、舞蹈,以及曾經的政治願景。聖彼得堡也是孕育俄羅斯文藝的溫床,在這誕生的天才有普希金、杜斯妥也夫斯基、柴可夫斯基和蕭斯塔科維奇。然而,在沙皇金碧輝煌的宮殿、童話般的舞會和迷人的花園外,曾有數千人的鮮血潑灑在城中積雪的步道上 ... Læs mere

    102,29 kr.

  • Scarti

    Oversat af Assunta Martinese ...
    Serier serie Sotterranei
    Talmadge e Micah abitano abusivamente in un appartamento di Manhattan, vivendo serenamente degli avanzi che trovano nei cassonetti, ma il loro equilibrio subisce una scossa quando devono ospitare un vecchio compagno universitario. Elwin, un linguista di mezza età lasciato dalla moglie, deve fare i conti con un padre malato che va perdendo la memoria. Sara, un'avvenente vedova dell'11 settembre, ... Læs mere

    85,00 kr.

  • Medusa

    The Shipwreck, The Scandal, The Masterpiece

    In June 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal from the British, set sail but ran aground off the desolate West African coast. The evacuation of the frigate was chaotic and cowardly - 146 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft which was then abandoned in mid-ocean, cut loose by the convoy of lifeboats which had pledged to tow it to ... Læs mere

    146,29 kr.

  • The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Myth

    What is myth? Why do myths exist? What do myths do? Where are myths going?This reader is organized into 4 parts which explore these questions. Drawing on over 10 years of experience teaching myth in religious studies and anthropology departments in the UK, USA and Continental Europe the editors have brought together key works in the theory of myth. Key features include:- a general introduction to ... Læs mere

    353,18 kr.

  • St Petersburg

    Three Centuries of Murderous Desire

    'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEKFrom Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg – one of the most magical, menacing and influential cities in the world.St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of ... Læs mere

    129,07 kr.