The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp, but this very trim and precise novel is marked departure from Irving's generally robust, boisterous style.Ballantine Books, 1997; 164 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 15,00 Voor/Our Price € 6,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 54 %
As the impact of WWI reaches the depths of the African jungle, Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer, a disreputable cockney mecamic and a spinster missionary, find themselves thrown together by chance. Deeply incompatible and fighting heat, malaria and bullets, as well as each other, they make their escape down the treacherous Ulanga river on the ancient steamboat The African Queen.Phoenix, 2006; 189 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 14,95 Voor/Our Price € 6,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
The Aleph is an encounter with our fears and our shortcomings, a search for love and forgiveness, and the courage to confront the inevitable challenges of life. Aleph marks a return to Paulo Coelho's beginnings. Facing a grave crisis of faith, Paulo decides to start over, to travel, to experiment and to reconnect with people and the world. On his journey, he will meet again Hilal, the womean he loved 500 years before, and this encounter will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space.Harper Collins, 2011; 300 pp.; EN; hbhb € 16,95
A beautiful society wife from St. Petersburg, determined to live life on her own terms, sacrifices everything to follow her conviction that love is stronger than duty. A socially inept but warm-hearted landowner pursues his own visions instead of conforming to conventional views. The adultress and the philosopher head the vibrant cast of characters in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's tumultuous tale of passion and self-discovery.Dover, 2004; 740 pp.; EN; pbpb € 5,99
Completed only months before his death, Dostoyevsky's final masterpiece is on the surface a tale of a patricide and its aftermath, the senior Karamazov is murdered and two of his three sons come under suspicion. The larger themes in The Brothers Karamazov call into question the nature of freedom, guilt, and man's relationship with his creator, a search for faith.Dover, 2005; 718 pp.; EN; pbpb € 5,99
This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom, about the beginning and ending of love, teenage lust, why we compete with our friends, and why things almost never work out as they should. It is a story about the human heart.Fourth Estate, 2010; 597 pp.; EN; pbpb € 12,95
The Ginger Man was first published in 1955 and originally banned in USA. Sebastian Dangerfield is an American student at Trinity College, Dublin in the late 1940s. He is less interested in his legal studies than in rambling around the city, getting drunk, burning the furniture, interfering with the plumbing, cheating the landlord, doing something embarrassing on a train, treating his long-suffering wife badly and chasing anything in a skirt. The Ginger Man is a lusty, squalid and absurd book.Independent; 334 pp.; EN; hbhb € 4,95
Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis -German title was Die Verwandlung- in 1912, and was published 3 years later. In 4 years of working as a junior clerk in an insurance company, Kafka learned all he needed to construct a whole demonology of office life. Metamorphosis is Kafka´s haunting, bleakly funny story of alienation. This edition also includes In the Penal Colony, another of Kafka´s best short stories, originally published in 1920.Independent, 2007; 117 pp.; EN; hbhb € 4,95
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Now Tony is retired, he's had a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past.Jonathan Cape, 2011; 150 pp.; EN; hbhb € 16,50
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