Book type: fiction (6197)
3411.
Oxen. Noctis (#5) by Jens Henrik Jensen DE
DenmarkDescription:
Über Niels Oxen bricht die Nacht herein …
Alles könnte gut werden: Flashbacks und Albträume quälen Niels Oxen seltener und er denkt darüber nach, was ihm in seinem Leben fehlt: Beziehungen. Und Liebe. Da bittet Ex-PET-Chef Mossmann ihn um Unterstützung. In einer verlassenen Kiesgrube sind die Leichen ermordeter Veteranen gefunden worden. Bedroht das Land ein Sniper? Unachtsam geworden, wird Oxen verschleppt – und dort, wo er erwacht, gibt es nur Dunkelheit …
3412.
Oxen. Pilgrim (#6) by Jens Henrik Jensen DE
Description:
Oxen hat wochenlange Gefangenschaft und grausame Kämpfe in den Katakomben überlebt, aber er ist nicht mehr derselbe. Zum ersten Mal hat er getötet, um zu leben. Um Abstand zu gewinnen und seine Taten zu sühnen, begibt er sich auf Pilgerreise.
Auch Margarethe Frank muss sich neu orientieren, denn nach einem Zerwürfnis wird sie vom dänischen Geheimdienst PET suspendiert. Da kommt die Anfrage von Axel Mossmann gerade recht. Er braucht Hilfe bei einem unbedeutend wirkenden Fall. Doch was zunächst nach einem kleinen Finanzbetrug aussieht, erreicht ungeahnte Dimen... continue
3413.
Pânza de păianjen by Cella Serghi RO
RomaniaDescription:
Glisând între spațiul vrăjit de la Balcic și tumultul Bucureștiului interbelic, eroina Diana Slavu își trăiește iubirile cu deznădejde și demnitate, luptându-se să evadeze din pânza de păianjen a unei existențe cenușii, marcate de apăsarea săraciei și a inconsecvenței celor din jur. Orice ființă care-a avut puterea să-și urmărească, cu ochi lucizi și uimiți, propria devenire, orice femeie care măcar o clipă s-a simțit încorsetată de condiția sa strâmbă într-o lume care nu mai are puterea să-și asume răspunderile iubirii împlinite, se poate ... continue
3414.
Pachinko : The New York Times Bestseller by Min Jin Lee EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA. Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant – and that her lover i... continue
Belarus3416.
Pădurea norvegiană by Haruki Murakami RO
JapanDescription:
Romanul Pădurea norvegiană, care-și împrumută titlul de la un hit al formației Beatles, Norwegian Wood, are ca fond atmosfera social-politică agitată a anilor '60. Narațiunea opune acestui laitmotiv dur momente de o intimitate emoțională răscolitoare.
Povestea lui Toru Watanabe urmăreste firul implicațiilor psihologice născute din dragostea imposibilă pentru iubita prietenului mort. Totul se petrece pe fundalul unor episoade marcate la tot pasul de scene erotice în camere sordide de cămin studențesc, de afișe și de discuri cu Jim Morrison, Miles Davis sau Bach, de lecturi d... continue
3417.
Pain by Zeruya Shalev EN
IsraelDescription:
“Zeruya Shalev is one of my favorite contemporary writers, her work always spiky and original, and Pain is a searing book, a wild and ravenous story of family entanglement and impossible yearning.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida and Fates and Furies A powerful, astute novel that exposes how old passions can return, testing our capacity to make choices about what is most essential in life. Ten years after she was seriously injured in a terrorist attack, the pain comes back to torment Iris. But that is not all: Eitan, the love of her youth, also comes back into her life. Though their relations... continue
3418.
País de nieve by Yasunari Kawabata ES
Description:
Shimamura regresa al Pais de nieve atraido por la belleza de la estacion y eltradicional estilo de vida. Pero vuelve especialmente por Komako, una jovenaprendiz de geisha que conocio en un viaje anterior. El es un hombre rico, demediana edad, que intenta escapar de un matrimonio sombrio y de su vida enTokio. Ella, una bellisima mujer vulnerable a sus propias emociones, que maduraante los ojos de su amante.El amor apasionado que Shimamura despiera en Komako le plantea un dilema: incapaz de corresponderlo, pero a la vez fascinado por su intensidad, optara porrepetir y prolongar su estadia en las... continue
3419.
Palabras, Ojos, Memoria by Edwidge Danticat ES
Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
Description:
Set in Haiti's impoverished villages and in New York's Haitian community, this is the story of Sophie Caco, who was conceived in an act of violence, abandoned by her mother and then summoned to America. In New York, Sophie discovers that Haiti imposes harsh rules on its own. (OneSource)
3420.
Palace of Desire : The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 2 by Naguib Mahfouz EN
EgyptDescription:
Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. In Palace of Desire, his rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Translat... continue