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A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soul-mate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.

Mensen laten net als andere dieren sporen na; paden die in de loop der tijden door menselijke voeten, karrenwielen, paarden, ezelshoeven en door regen, ijs en wind zijn uitgesleten. Een voetafdruk van menselijk leven in het landschap. Macfarlane volgt deze paden en spoort de verhalen op die ermee verbonden zijn. Het is de derde keer dat Robert Macfarlane ons meeneemt op zijn tochten door de natuur. In Hoogtekoorts onderzocht hij de menselijke fascinatie voor huiveringwekkende bergtoppen. In De laatste wildernis ging hij op zoek naar de ongerepte natuur in Engeland en Ierland. In De oude wegen , het laatste deel van het drieluik, richt Macfarlane zijn zoektocht juist op de door mensen betreden natuur.

Anni Novanta: ai responsabili dello spionaggio internazionale tocca affrontare nuove sfide. Non più la guerra fredda, ma il terrorismo internazionale, i cartelli della droga, i moderni arsenali militari. Questo è quanto deve affrontare Sam McCready, il Simulatore, preposto all'Ufficio Simulazione del SIS inglese. Dalla Germania dell'est alla Libia di Gheddafi, da Cipro alle isole caraibiche, il Simulatore verrà a contatto con le nuove tecniche dello spionaggio scientifico, lo spionaggio del futuro.

Reissued to mark the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima, The AshGarden is a searing novel of three lives shattered by war, from a writer TheGlobe and Mail called "Canada’s next great novelist." • Winner of the Japan-Canada • A Globe100 Best Book of 2001 • Finalist for the 2003 IMPAC Award; the Amazon.com/Books in Canada FirstNovel Award; the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize; and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Caribbean and Canada Region)

In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Reissued as standalone books for the first time in many years, these are B. S. Johnson's most famous and critically acclaimed novels.

Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes' pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test.

A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna

"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love." PEOPLE Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery--and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate....

An epic apocalypse story in which God floods the world a second time, sparing only the occupants of a children's hospital.

Baltimora, dicembre 1941, il giorno dell’attacco a Pearl Harbor. La città è in preda all’agitazione, la gente scende in piazza, i giovani corrono ad arruolarsi e una graziosa ragazza, avvolta in un cappotto rosso, entra per caso nella bottega del giovane Michael Anton, nel quartiere polacco della città. Quell’incontro fortuito segnerà per sempre le loro vite. I due sembrano fatti l’uno per l’altra, tanto che quasi subito decidono di sposarsi; in realtà sono molto diversi: lui, razionale, concreto e introverso; lei, allegra, generosa e irrimediabilmente sognatrice. Ma il matrimonio, i figli e le responsabilità li distolgono dalle riflessioni sul loro rapporto, sino a quando una sera, nell’intimità della camera da letto, i problemi irrisolti della loro lunga unione affiorano impietosamente. Nel commosso racconto dei sentimenti e delle vicende quotidiane, Anne Tyler, scrittrice finissima nel cogliere le sfumature dei caratteri e dei gesti dei suoi personaggi, ci restituisce la storia di una vicenda coniugale, colta nelle sue molteplici sfumature e nella sua complessa e drammatica verità.

Se Elizabeth Bennet avesse dovuto lavare le proprie sottogonne, Sarah pensava spesso, sarebbe stata probabilmente molto più attenta. In questa irresistibile risposta immaginata a "Orgoglio e Pregiudizio", i servitori sono al centro della scena. Sarah, la giovane domestica orfana, trascorre le sue giornate a lavare la biancheria, lucidare i pavimenti e svuotare i vasi da notte per la famiglia Bennet. Ma c'è altrettanto romanticismo, dolore e intrigo nei sotterranei di Longbourn quanto nei piani superiori. Quando un misterioso nuovo cameriere arriva, l'ordinato regno della sala dei servitori rischia di essere completamente, forse irrevocabilmente, sconvolto. Jo Baker ci porta oltre i salotti del classico di Jane Austen, nel dominio spesso trascurato della severa governante e della sognante serva di cucina, nei dettagli quotidiani affrontati dalle classi inferiori nella Inghilterra regency durante le guerre napoleoniche, creando così un mondo vivido, affascinante e completamente realizzato che è interamente suo.

Exhilerating...irreverent, and extremely funny,"- "Ms," Seventeen and sure of nothing, Maria has left her parents' small-town grocery for university life in Dublin. An ad in the Student Union-"2 " FEMALE SYMBOL]" seek flatmate. No bigots."-leads Maria to a home with warm Ruth and wickedly funny Jael, students who are older and more fascinating than she'd expected. A poignant, funny, and sharply insightful coming-of-age story, Stir-fry is a lesbian novel that explores the conundrum of desire arising in the midst of friendship and probes feminist ideas of sisterhood and nonpossessiveness. Emma Donoghue is the author of the forthcoming "Slammerkin, Hood" "and Kissing the Witch" . Born in Dublin, she now lives in Ontario, Canada. "Stir-fry" was her first novel. Also Available by Emma Donoghue "Hood" TP 11.95, 1-55583-453-1 CUSA

For Neville "Bunt" Mullard and his mother, Betty, Hong Kong is part of Britain - one of the pleasanter parts; it is also cozy, monotonous, profitable, and homely. Now ninety-nine years of colonial rule are about to end, and the British government is about to hand over Hong Kong to China. Betty and Bunt can see China from their parlor, but they have never been there. They detest Chinese food. "The Chinese take-away, " as they call the Hand-over, does not particularly concern them. When Bunt first meets Mr. Hung, a well-spoken gentleman from the Chinese mainland, he pays him little heed. And when Mr. Hung offers the Mullards a handsome sum for their family business - a fifty-year-old textile factory, Imperial Stitching, that was cofounded by Bunt's late father - Bunt refuses him out of hand. Yet it soon grows clear that Mr. Hung is different from the Chinese the Mullards have lived alongside for years. For Mr. Hung will accept no refusals. Then a young woman from the Mullards' factory vanishes, one of many disappearances. But this one is different. Ah Fu has last been seen in the company of Mr. Hung. And so Bunt is forced for the first time in his forty-three years to make decisions that matter. He even begins, maybe, to discover love. Yet against all of Bunt's good, if half-formed, intentions are pitted the will of Mr. Hung and the looming threat of the ultimate betrayal.

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever' Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp called Odo. From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith, Yann Martel weaves a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and magical.

AN UPTOWN HIGH-RISEA glittering Manhattan "sliver" building.A successful single career woman.A shocking secret hidden in brick and concrete.A HIGH-TECH NIGHTMARESomeone is watching her.He watches her unpack, watches her make the bed; his eyes are everywhere.He owns the building: now he owns her.SLIVERThere's no place more frightening than home.

Drew Maclane was a star agent--until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses. Someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying world where no one is as he seems, and where life's most horrifying and harrowing game is played....