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Confusions of Young Master Torless(2013) MUSIL, ROBERTA new translation of Robert Musil's first novel, a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Child Wonder(2012) JACOBSEN, ROYA glorious evocation of childhood in the early sixties.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In(2014) PETRUSHEVSKAYA, LUDMILLAWith the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, the psychological perceptiveness of Dostoevsky, and the bleak absurdities of Beckett, the author blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia's preeminent contemporVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided(2013) BANFFY, MIKLOSThe liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later to fall into the hands of first the Nazis and then the Communists, his love for Adrienne, married to an unplVezava: Trda28,04 € -
Trial(2001) KAFKA, FRANZThe terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Buddenbrooks(1996) MANN, THOMASDiscover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Guardians of the Covenant(2010) EGELAND, TOMA fast-paced mystery with old secrets and present day detectionVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Ladies' Paradise(2013) ZOLA, EMILERecently adapted for BBC Television, The Ladies' Paradise evokes the giddy pace of Paris's transition into a modern city and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
In Praise of Hatred(2013) KHALIFA, KHALED1980s Syria, our young narrator is living a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents in Aleppo. Her three aunts, Maryam the pious one; Safaa, the liberal; and the free-spirited Marwa, bring her up with the aid of thVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
I'm Staying Here(2021) BALZANO, MARCOA sweeping historical novel about the struggle of one woman and one village against war, racism and ecological devastation.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Pleasures and Days(2013) PROUST, MARCELRich in language and detail, and by turns satirical and moving, Proust's stories - presented here in Andrew Brown's nuanced translation, the only edition currently in print - are layered with imagery and feeling and foreshadow the themes and psychologVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Exile(2012) EJERSBO, JAKOBThe first novel in a major trilogy exposing the guilt, loneliness and nihilism of the ex-pat experience in post-colonial Africa.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Inspector Montalbano: The First Three Novels in the Series(2013) CAMILLERI, ANDREABooks one, two and three in the Inspector Montalbano crime series – now a major BBC4 TV series.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Brodeck's Report(2010) CLAUDEL, PHILIPPEA murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Monsieur Linh and His Child(2012) CLAUDEL, PHILIPPEMonsieur Linh and His Child is a remarkable novel with an extraordinary twist, a subtle portrait of friendship and a dialogue between two cultures.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Chronicler of the Winds(2007) MANKELL, HENNINGA moving, deeply affecting story about street children in Africa, from the bestselling writer behind the Kurt Wallander series One night José hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. On that theatre roof, his life ebbing away, NeliVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Suitcase(2013) DOVLATOV, SERGEIImbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov's characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €










