Book type: fiction (6198)
2301.
Karitas Untitled by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir EN
IcelandDescription:
A portrait of an artist trapped by convention and expectations but longing for the chaos that can set her free. Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Olafsdóttir, the youngest of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling and is determined to never let go of her true being, one unsuited for the conventional. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life and all its expectations of women. Pulled back time and again by design and by chance to the Icelandic countryside--as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and fishe... continue
2302.
PolandDescription:
Kassandra, die äSeherinä, ist die schillerndste Frauenfigur der griechischen Mythologie. Sie sagte dem übermächtigen Troja den Untergang voraus und musste ihre Prophezeiung mit dem Leben bezahlen.
2303.
Katalin Street by Magda Szabó EN
HungaryDescription:
From the award-winning author of The Door comes Katalin Street, first published in Hungarian in 1968 and translated into French, German, and Swedish. This elegant English translation by Agnes Farkas Smith now makes Katalin Street available to an even wider audience.
2304.
Kathie y el hipopótamo : comedia en dos actos by Mario Vargas Llosa ES
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
Un intercambio en el que se juega un rato a fingir que lo que no se es, que se ha hecho en realidad aquello que se hubiera deseado. El diálogo entre Kathie, esposa rica y decepcionada, y su escriba, Santiago Zavala (el protagonista de la novela Conversación en La catedral), en el que entran y salen otros personajes de sus vidas, presentes y pasadas.
2305.
Kava in the Blood by Peter Thomson EN
FijiDescription:
Judges report, Montana NZ Book Awards 2000: "This is an excellent story, beautifully written and skillfully mixing the personal with the political."
2306.
MauritiusDescription:
"Set in Mauritius during the uprising following the death of the Mauritian musician Kaya, Kaya Days tells the story of a young woman's daylong search for her younger brother who has gone missing"--
2307.
Kazbek by Leonardo Valencia Assogna ES
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
El pintor Peer encomienda a Kazbek la redacción de textos que acompañen a una serie de ilustraciones de criaturas, “bichos”, que han salido del volcán al aumentar su actividad. Peer es alemán, radicado en Ecuador; Kazbek, ecuatoriano radicado en Barcelona. ¿Desde donde crea su arte cada uno? Tal vez, su obra es un cuadro con las referencias locales, más perceptibles; pero también el pentimiento, la mancha del dibujo original que se trasluce a través de las pinceladas que lo cubrieron. ¿Los bichos surgen del volcá... continue
Finland
Algeria2310.
Khwabnama by Akhteruzzaman Elias EN
Country: Asia / 
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
In this magnum opus, which documents the Tebhaga movement, wherein peasants demanded two-thirds of the harvest they produced on the land owned by zamindars, Akhtaruzzaman Elias has created an extraordinary tale of magical realism, blending memory with reality, legend with history and the struggle of marginalized people with the stories of their ancestors.