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'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith **WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2020** Midhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with Jeannette, the doctor's daughter. But Midhat soon discovers that everything is fragile- love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong. Through Midhat's eyes we see the tangled politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era - the Palestinian struggle for independence, the strife of the early twentieth century, and the looming shadow of the Second World War. Lush and immersive, and devastating in its power, The Parisian is an elegant, richly-imagined debut from a dazzling new voice in fiction. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2020* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD FICTION AWARD 2019*

'Reading Andrew Ridker's debut novel, you soon realise you're in the presence of a new talent.' The TimesArthur Alter is in trouble.Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a razor-sharp, darkly funny family saga from a sparkling new talent.

Van de bestsellerauteur van 'We moeten het over Kevin hebben' en Big Brother komt een nieuwe, grote roman over de instorting van een familie – tegen de achtergrond van een financiële crisis van apocalyptische proporties. We schrijven 2029. In een speciale tv-uitzending deelt de Amerikaanse president Alvarado zijn staatsburgers mee wat niemand ooit voor mogelijk had gehouden: het land kan zijn torenhoge schulden niet meer afbetalen. De almachtige dollar is niets meer waard. Dit nieuws is in eerste instantie een ver-van-mijn-bed-show voor Florence Mandible, die met haar vriend Esteban en haar dertienjarige zoon Willing in een comfortabel, bijna afbetaald rijtjeshuis in Brooklyn woont. In korte tijd echter zet de nationale financiële crisis zich onverbiddelijk om in een persoonlijke: grootvaders in mysterie verhulde fortuin, waarop Florence, haar ouders en haar broers en zussen al jaren zinspelen, gaat in rook op. En plotseling is dat comfortabele huis in Brooklyn de enige veilige haven voor het hele gezin. Tot de dementerende stiefgrootmoeder aan toe.

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment -- and a moving story of how we got here. 'Haunting, beautifully shaped and sad . . . Eggers has developed an exceptional gift for opening up the lives of others so as to offer the story of globalism as it develops and, simultaneously, to unfold a much more archetypal tale of struggle and loneliness and drift.' Pico Iyer, The New York Times Book Review 'A comic but deeply affecting tale about one man's travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times.' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A 2012 National Book Award Finalist

De New Yorkse Rachel Shukert krijgt als jonge twintiger een onbenullig maar felbegeerd rolletje in een toneelstuk. Onverwacht krijgt ze daarmee precies waarnaar ze altijd heeft verlangd: een tournee door Europa. Bij de Oostenrijkse douane blijkt Rachel haar paspoort niet te hoeven laten stempelen, wat haar een vrijbrief geeft voor een oneindige vakantie in Europa. Rachel reist van Wenen via Zürich naar Amsterdam, waar ze verblijft bij twee vrienden, Mattijs en Jeroen. Maar wat begint als een ‘zoektocht naar zichzelf’, wordt een aaneenschakeling van hilarische gebeurtenissen. Van gecompliceerde relaties en dronkemansmisverstanden tot verbijstering over de immer aanwezige muziek van Phil Collins in Amsterdamse kroegen. Alles wordt fantastisch! is meer dan alleen de cultuurshock van een Amerikaanse in Europa, het is bovenal een verhaal over Shukerts échte cultuurshock: volwassen worden en geconfronteerd worden met de ‘echte wereld’, wat dat ook moge zijn.

This is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are plagued by their own deep, often unconscious, longings; they are subjected to shocking violations, exposed to unexpected acts of terror. No matter whether he is focused upon the slums of New York or astronauts in orbit around the Earth, DeLillo chooses never to turn away from the unsettling manner in which humans are brought together. These nine stories describe the extraordinary journey of a great American writer who changed the literary landscape. 'Don DeLillo's richly compressed short stories are the work of a true master . . . In these stories or lucid dreams - sometimes drily shocking or mournfully funny, always masterfully designed - DeLillo himself isolates that stray thought, and makes of it great art.' Guardian

Il nuovo romanzo dell'autore di «Middlesex» racconta una drammatica storia a tre che esplora le sfaccettature dell'amore. Negli Stati Uniti dei primi anni ottanta, la appassionata lettrice Madeleine Hanna studia in un college della costa orientale e scrive una tesi sulla «Liebeshandlung» nei romanzi vittoriani. Mentre riflette sui motivi del cuore umano, la vita reale irrompe nella sua esistenza sotto forma di due giovani uomini. Leonard Bankhead, un carismatico solitario, la coinvolge in una relazione carica di erotismo e intellettualismo. Contemporaneamente, il suo vecchio amico Mitchell Grammaticus ritorna, convinto che lui e Madeleine siano destinati a stare insieme. Dopo la laurea, tutti e tre devono riconsiderare le proprie prospettive. Leonard e Madeleine si trasferiscono a Cape Cod, mentre Mitchell parte per l'India con un zaino pieno di libri sulla mistica cristiana, cercando risposte sul senso della vita e dell'amore. In un'epoca di libertà sessuale e divorzi, si pone la domanda se esistano ancora grandi storie d'amore. Jeffrey Eugenides rinnova una tradizione considerata estinta e conferma il suo status di autore significativo della letteratura contemporanea americana.

Nel 1665, La Giamaica è un remoto avamposto britannico circondato da colonie spagnole. La capitale, Port Royal, è un luogo di avventurieri e malviventi in cerca di fortuna tra taverne e moli. La vita è dura, segnata da malattie e vendette, e l'oro spagnolo rappresenta una tentazione per il capitano Charles Hunter, protetto dalla legge inglese che favorisce i corsari. Si diffonde la voce che nel porto di Matanceros è ancorato il galeone El Trinidad, carico di tesori destinati alla Spagna. Tuttavia, la nave è sorvegliata da un forte inespugnabile e dal sadico capitano Gazalla, mentre la flotta spagnola pattuglia l'oceano e la giungla dell'isola è impenetrabile. Nonostante le difficoltà, Hunter è determinato a mettere in atto un piano audace, selezionando con cura i membri del suo equipaggio. L'isola dei pirati, ritrovata nel computer di Michael Crichton, offre un'avventura mozzafiato in un'epoca feroce. Con azione, tradimenti e colpi di scena, questa storia è un capolavoro di suspense che cattura il lettore in un mondo di vascelli e tesori.