From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of &i;>Harvest &/i>and &i;>Quarantine&/i>, a spellbinding fable about love, fear and where authority lies.
Jim Crace Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
James Crace crea una prosa luminosa che esplora la tensione tra l'individuo e le forze del cambiamento, concentrandosi spesso sui mutamenti sociali e sull'impatto della civiltà. Il suo stile distintivo impiega immagini vivide e acuta perspicacia psicologica per dissezionare l'esperienza e la motivazione umana. L'opera di Crace sfida i lettori a contemplare la natura del progresso e le sue conseguenze, consolidando la sua reputazione di voce significativa nella letteratura contemporanea. Le sue narrazioni risuonano con una profonda comprensione della condizione umana, rendendo i suoi contributi una lettura essenziale.






Harvest
- 280pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell it ...
La città dei baci
- 206pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
Six
- 282pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
Raunchy, revelatory and beautifully refined, 'Six' charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind.
Satans Speisekammer
- 207pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
Flitterwochen: Ein Musiklehrer und seine junge Frau beschließen, den Vollzug ihrer Ehe noch eine Weile hinauszuzögern: Sie ziehen sich in eine Hütte zurück und leben nur von dem, was sie sammeln und jagen können - bis sie ein Kraut finden, das ein starkes Aphrodisiakum enthält ... In einer anderen Geschichte entwickelt sich eine Einladung zum Käsefondue zum regelrechten Strip-Abend, mit geschmolzenem Käse auf der Haut ... Die sinnlich-appetitlichen Episoden von Jim Graces neuestem Werk nehmen oft überraschende Wendungen hin zum Bizarren und Provokanten. Ein Erlebnis der besonderen Art. Ein überirdischer Genuss eben, wie er sich zum Beispiel in Geschichte 64 manifestiert: "Ach, Süße!"
The Death of Vishnu
- 301pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the landing, where he looks back on his affair with the seductive Padmini.
In Arkadien
- 350pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Von Kindesbeinen an hat sich Victor auf dem Markt seinen Lebensunterhalt verdient-mit Eiern seiner Tante.Heute ist er Herr über ein ganzes Imperium und kann voller Stolz auf ein ungewöhnliches Leben zurückblicken.Und doch hat er noch einen letzten großen Traum:Er will auf dem Marktplatz seiner Stadt ein monumentales,glasüberdachtes Einkaufszentrum errichten-sein Arkadien.Allerdings hat Victor die Rechnung ohne seinen langjährigen Vertrauten Rabe gemacht,der plötzlich zu einem erbitterten Gegner wird...
The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to have achieved a peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. They were still man and wife, quietly resting, dead but not yet departed
Hell is other people... Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa - madman, sadist, rapist, even a Satan - who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, a faint figure in the distance, fasting for 40 days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles... Here, trapped in the wilderness, their terrifying battle for survival begins.





