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Un explorateur de grande valeur, dont on ne connaîtra pas le nom, visite une île éloignée constituant la colonie pénitentiaire d'un pays puissant (on ne saura pas lequel). Il est invité à participer à une exécution publique. Celle-ci est effectuée par un appareil étrange développé par le défunt commandant de l'île.

A revelatory, long-awaited, and definitive intellectual biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents—from both Germany, where Arendt was born to a Jewish family in 1906...

What happens when one goes from obscurity to celebrity, overnight?Thirty-year-old Arya Alvarez is a travel manager at Isle Z, a luxury travel company in Singapore where she creates bespoke trips for celebrities and influencers. Discretion is her specialty at work and personal life: few people...

MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and...

In this beautifully crafted novel, roofs have a special place; they are meant for wild things, for romance and for play, they are places to dry pickles and grains while exchanging gossip about quiet caresses. But above all, they are realms of freedom. In The Roof Beneath their Feet, Chachcho and...

Meet these people: Bundle Bindu, so named because he likes his truth with a little embellishment, Jayant the shopkeeper who doesn't make any profit, and Lunchbox Nalini, Sudha Murty herself, who brings her empty lunchbox-to be filled with food-wherever she goes!Written in Sudha Murty's...

A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993), one of India's finest poets, translators, folklorists, essayists and scholars of the twentieth century, is a stalwart in India's literary history. His translations of ancient Tamil and medieval Kannada poetry, as well as of UR Ananthamurthy's novel Samskara, are...

In this haunting novel, a young nurse forms an unlikely connection with the elderly man she cares for, and finds herself confronting the guilt she carries from her past Marguerite Demers is twenty-five when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint Sulpice to take up a job as a...

The Lost Victory perfectly captures the cultural essence of 1942 and the urgency of this colourful and moving pageant of a nation about to throw off the yoke of foreign rule. Essentially, it is the story of Buta Singh, a shrewd and wily official working with the British, and of Sher Singh, his...

Maya is pretty, young and eager to escape her middleclass home. Ranjan is handsome, driven, well born and wealthy. Their arranged marriage seems a match made in heaven until Maya discovers that underneath her husband’s charming facade lies a cold-hearted, rigidly conservative monster...

There are some life-long quests that all women have in common–meaningful work, true love, and a bra that doesn’t leave red marks on your skin. In the comfort of her Brooklyn basement bra shop, Sima Goldner teaches other women to appreciate their bodies, but feels betrayed by her own. Shamed...

Zugzwang: A chess term used to describe a position in which a player is reduced to utter helplessness–he is obliged to move, but every move serves to make his position even worse. The year is 1914, and St. Petersburg is spellbound by the international chess championship, even as the city...

In The Italian Quartet, Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of...

Set in a Paris darkened by World War II, Sara Houghteling’s sweeping and sensuous debut novel tells the story of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation. Born to an art dealer and his pianist wife, Max Berenzon is forbidden from...

Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller. Now, he gives us his most accomplished novel to date. Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retired to a life of solitude on the Spanish coast. He spends his days...

“Dennis is in possession of hypnotic narrative gifts and a ferocious intellect. With Her Here, she has claimed her place in the literary world.” ―Rebecca Makkai, author of Music for Wartime and The Great Believers “In Her Here, Dennis has written a metaphysical investigation that is...

And then finally I felt sadness, aided perhaps by those futile notes, by the dust that keeps thickening, by the untouchable past, the inevitable future, and by everything else that pushes us around.' Ib lives with his schizophrenic father and his 'nice' mother negotiating life, not knowing what...

Toby Hennessy, 28, hat immer gedacht, dass das Schicksal es gut mit ihm meint. Er führt ein unbeschwertes, erfolgreiches Leben in Dublin. Bis er eines Nachts von Einbrechern in seiner Wohnung brutal zusammengeschlagen wird. Toby überlebt nur knapp; er ist körperlich und seelisch versehrt, kann sich nicht mehr auf seine Erinnerungen verlassen. Es erscheint ihm wie eine Zuflucht, in das alte, von Efeu umrankte Haus seiner Familie zu ziehen, um sich dort um seinen sterbenden Onkel Hugo zu kümmern. Doch dann wird im hohlen Stamm der mächtigen Ulme im Garten ein Totenschädel gefunden.

Anmutig, behütet und golden, so scheint die abgeschirmte Welt des traditionsreichen Mädcheninternats St. Kilda. Doch vor einem Jahr ist dort im Park ein Junge erschlagen worden. Nun hängt sein Bild am Schwarzen Brett - mit der Überschrift: ICH WEISS, WER IHN GETÖTET HAT. Nur eines von acht Mädchen kann die Karte aufgehängt haben. In zwei Cliquen stehen sie sich gegenüber - unverbrüchliche Freundinnen, erbarmungslose Feindinnen.

Aislinn Murray ist jung, hübsch und liegt tot in ihrem Haus, der Tisch ist für ein romantisches Abendessen gedeckt. Eindeutig wieder so eine Beziehungstat, denkt die Polizei. Doch bald stoßen die Detectives Antoinette Conway und Stephen Moran auf Ungereimtheiten. Und es wird immer offensichtlicher, dass jemand in der Mordkommission ihre Arbeit behindert. Weil sich Antoinette mit ihrer toughen Art Feinde gemacht hat?