Gerard Fulmard is a loser. A disgraced former flight attendant, he attempts the metier of private detective, with spectacularly disastrous results, then begins working for an obscure political groupuscule beset by an outsized share of infighting and...Loe edasi...
A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France—a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano “( Modiano’s) words conjure up the promise of hidden worlds.”—Tobias Grey, Financial Times...Loe edasi...
A sharp and playful critique of colonialism from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature, animated by memories, archival specters, and powerful women“In sentences of great beauty and restraint, Mukasonga rescues a million souls from...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2024, Other book format, Kirjastus: New York Review of Books, ISBN-13: 9781681378565)
Gerard Fulmard is a loser. A disgraced former flight attendant, he attempts the metier of private detective, with spectacularly disastrous results, then begins working for an obscure political groupuscule beset by an outsized share of infighting and...Loe edasi...
A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano “Polizzotti’s crisp and evocative translation keeps the reader hooked.”—Publishers Weekly In his acclaimed se...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300265934)
A Nobel Prize-winning author, in this follow-up to his acclaimed semi-autobiographical novella Suspended Sentences, continues the story of Jean Bosmans, now in his early 20s, as he becomes aware of a set of disturbing coincidences that set him on a c...Loe edasi...
Leon Wieseltier, Jonathan Zimmerman, Celeste Marcus, Cass R. Sunstein, Carissa Veliz, Ekaterina Pravilova, Richard Taruskin, Claire Malroux, Richard Wolin, Mark Polizzotti...
“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance”“Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is”InvaluableLiberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.” Liberties...Loe edasi...
In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity.When a rogue priest is defrocke...Loe edasi...
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature “Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings it to life in all its sparkling m...Loe edasi...
Poet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious career of the poet Arthur Rimbaud is one of the legends of modern literature. By the time he was twenty, Rimbaud had written a series of poems that are not only maste...Loe edasi...
