Book type: fiction (6198)
2291.
GermanyDescription:
Jenny Erpenbeck's much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates
2292.
SwedenDescription:
A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely. In this desolate, paranoid landscape of 'police eyes' and 'police ears', the obedient citizen and middle-ranking scientist Leo Kall discovers a drug that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. But can private thought really be obliterated? Karin Boye's chilling novel of creeping alien... continue
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Kalpa Imperial : The Greatest Empire that Never was by Angélica Gorodischer EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
This is the first of Argentinean writer Angelica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. But this is much more than a simple political allegory or fable. It is also a celebration of the power of storytelling. Go... continue
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Kalyana by Rajni Mala Khelawan EN
FijiDescription:
A moving story about what it means to be a woman in a society where choices are limited and decisions are difficult. A must read for mothers, and their adult daughters.
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Kam-Ndjaha, la dévoreuse : Roman by Marie-Christine Koundja FR
ChadDescription:
Après une enfance difficile, de peines et de supplices, Marianne connaît des moments, tantôt d’amour, de bonheur et de prospérité, tantôt de chagrin et de misère.
De son côté, Julie passe de draps en draps . . . pour finir où?
Voilà la question qu’on doit se poser dans sa vie existentielle quand on fait un choix de vie.
2297.
Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
In 1976, a young boy flees Buenos Aires with his opposition-supporting family, renames himself after his hero Harry Houdini, and dedicates his time in exile to mastering his role model's escape artistry.
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Kamer by Emma Donoghue NL
IrelandDescription:
Een 5-jarige jongen heeft jarenlang met zijn moeder opgesloten gezeten en moet na zijn bevrijding leren hoe het er in de wereld aan toe gaat.
2299.
Kamp - Biobrikken Bok 3 by Ben Ormstad NO
NorwayDescription:
Tiden er ute. I morgen tvangsinnføres biobrikken - både i Norge og resten av verden. Biobrikken, en databrikke som sprøytes inn i hånden og registrerer alt om deg - gener og helsetilstand, hva du spiser og drikker, hvor du til enhver tid befinner deg, hvem du omgås, hva du liker og ikke liker. Alt privatliv skal forsvinne. For alltid. Motstandsbevegelsen har nå forårsaket enorme skader og blottlagt horrible sannheter bak utviklingen av biobrikken. Men er det nok til å hindre makteliten i å gjennomføre tvangsinnføringen? ------------------------------ Sosiologiprofessoren og biobrikke-motstande... continue
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Kamusari Tales Told at Night by Shion Miura EN
JapanDescription:
From Shion Miura, award-winning author of The Easy Life in Kamusari, comes a spirit-lifting novel about tradition, first love, and ancient lore in a Japanese mountain village. It's been a year since Yuki Hirano left home--or more precisely, was booted from it--to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means "courage," and Yuki hopes to live up to it. He's adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends--tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms... continue