Book type: fiction (6210)


2931.

Midsummer by Derek Walcott EN

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Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and friendship. Walcott records the experience of middle life - in reality and in memory or the imagination. On the publication of Derek Walcott's previous collection, The Fortunate Traveller, Blake Morrison wrote in the London Review of Books: ' The Forunate Traveller is an impressive collection that moves lucidly and at times brilliantly between ab... continue

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Miedo by Stefan Zweig ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
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Irene Wagner lleva una vida acomodada y sin preocupaciones junto a su marido y sus dos hijos. Sin embargo, tras ocho años de matrimonio, los bailes, el teatro, la ópera y otras actividades sociales se le antojan predecibles y anodinas. Así, más por fantasía novelesca que por auténtico deseo, inicia una relación con un joven pianista. Pero pronto una mujer la descubre cuando sale del apartamento de su amante e Irene se ve obligada a ceder a un terrible chantaje. El terror de ser descubierta por su marido y de perder todo lo que posee y, ahora des... continue

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Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy EN

Rating: 4 (6 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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'An extraordinary novel... as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I've ever read' Emily St. John Mandel A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be their final migration to Antarctica. As animal populations plummet, Franny talks her way onto one of the few remaining boats heading south. But as she and the eccentric crew travel further from shore and safety, the dark secrets of Franny's life begin to unspool. Haunted by love and violence, Franny must confront what she ... continue

2934.

Migrations by Miloš Crnjanski EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Serbia flag Serbia
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Eighteenth century Serbs flee the tyranny of the Ottoman Empire as two brothers, a soldier and a merchant, and a woman, who is wife to one and mistress to the other, face the displacement and sorrows of war.

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Miguel Street by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
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The time is World War II, the setting a derelict street in Trinidad's capital, Port of Spain. In this tender early novel, Naipaul renders the residents' lives (and the legends that arise around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Mil Grullas by Yasunari Kawabata ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
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"A Thousand Cranes" is by Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), who was made the first Japanese Nobel laureate for literature in 1968.

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Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun EN

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Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
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Fleeing her 1980s Bronx family home in the wake of her unfaithful father's abandonment and her mother's mental illness, Korean teen Joon struggles through an adolescence marked by homeless shelters, addiction, and demeaning jobs. A first novel. Reprint.

2938.

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur EN

Rating: 3 (10 votes)
Country: Asia / India flag India
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Collection of poetry.

2939.

Milkman by Anna Burns EN

Rating: 5 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
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THERE WERE 'OUR SHOPS' AND 'THEIR SHOPS'. PLACENAMES. WHAT SCHOOL YOU WENT TO. WHAT PRAYERS YOU SAID...YOU CREATED A POLITICAL STATEMENT EVERYWHERE YOU WENT, AND WITH EVERYTHING YOU DID, EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO... In Northern Ireland, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be... continue

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Min fars hode

Min fars hode by Elena Botchorichvili NO

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Country: Asia / Georgia flag Georgia
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Frederik skal reise på bryllupsferie til farens hjemland Georgia, og vil der gjerne besøke sin bestefars grav. Faren skriver da et brev til sønnen om sin fortid der, og om Frederiks besteforeldre; taleskriveren og buktaleren. Minner fra ulike tidspunkt blandes sammen i et forsøk på å forstå og forklare hva som skjedde med Frederiks bestefar. Romanen gir oss et innblikk i hvordan det var å leve i Sovjetunionen, og i hvordan det er å leve uten. Forfatteren Jelena Botsjorisjvili er født i Georgia, og jobbet der som journalist i Sovjetunion før hun emigeret til Canada i 1992. Hennes seks romaner b... continue