*An Observer Book of the Year, 2024*This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis rise to power in 1933. It contains many...Loe edasi...
The Earth is Falling is a haunting and magical novel based around the existence of an abandoned village outside Naples. The deserted houses that still stand there are peopled with ghosts who live in a perpetual present from which time has effectively...Loe edasi...
The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious, enthralling book: what use is philosophy in the middle of a war? The Sunday TimesThe year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris. S...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jan-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Distributed By Ingram Spark, ISBN-13: 9783000742958)
Eccentric start-up entrepreneur Gregory Hollister invested most of his money in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. When he dies in an accident, the hunt for his private fortune begins. The paranoid Californian hid it well. Where is this digital treasure, wh...Loe edasi...
Igor Levit ranks among the greatest pianists of his generation, described by The New York Times as one of the essential artists of our time . But his influence reaches far beyond music: he uses his public platform to speak out against racism, antise...Loe edasi...
When her cousin and wife fail to return from a walk, this story takes a sinister turn to a quest of survival A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Little, Brown Book Group, ISBN-13: 9781408714812)
The astonishing, true account of one mans quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years.Haunting, remarkable and ultimately very moving Sunday TimesA story of extraordinary power and tenderness Charles FosterA start...Loe edasi...
THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION******SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE******SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE***A Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-2021, MP3, Kirjastus: Random House, ISBN-13: 9781473597976)
Brought to you by Penguin. In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the...Loe edasi...
Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt Sunday Times An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster Hila...Loe edasi...
Brought to you by Penguin.***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021***Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a func...Loe edasi...
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ageFlorent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career...Loe edasi...
AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a livi...Loe edasi...
Brought to you by Penguin.The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living as a jobbing critic. Ludwig Wittgenstein signs away his inheritance to teach schoolchildren in a provincial Austrian village, seeking spiritua...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Aug-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: World Noir, ISBN-13: 9781609456375)
What happened between two people on a cliffs edge on the French coast is at the heart of "e;a tantalizing puzzle"e; in this twisting noir thriller (Kirkus Reviews).In the town of Yport, during a run along Europes tallest cliff, Jamal notice...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781789601411)
1775-The conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies erupts in all-out war. Rebels and loyalists to the British Crown compete for an alliance with the Six Nations of the Iroquois, the most powerful Indian confederation, boasting a c...Loe edasi...
One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set against the downfall of the Third ReichApril 1945, the last days of the Nazi regime. While bombs are falling on Berlin, th...Loe edasi...
The father of contemporary European detective fiction Ann CleevesLeaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs . . . what the newspapers didnt know was how much energy he put into trying to understand, how...Loe edasi...
The father of contemporary European detective fiction Ann CleevesFlorentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so much and disarmed the teachers . . . Maigret didnt dare to ask why he had come to see him. He studied him...Loe edasi...
The New York Times Bestseller( An) earth-shaking expos of clerical corruption - National Catholic ReporterIn the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today. This brilliant piece of investig...Loe edasi...
