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Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

USA 2011, 354 pp, pb, € 15.95
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264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the »netsuke«, they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de ... Weiterlesen

Samuel R. Delany: Babel-17 / Empire Star

Samuel R. Delany: Babel-17 / Empire Star

USA 1994, 315 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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»Babel-17« is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy's deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, »Babel-17« is published as the author intended with the short novel »Empire Star«, the ... Weiterlesen

Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana

Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana

UK 2010, 393 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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In 1933, the delightfully eccentric gay descendant of the famous Lord Byron, Robert Byron, set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which formed part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. While his arrival ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell

Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell

UK 2006, 257 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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»The Spell« is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin, Robin's 22 year old son Danny, a volatile beauty who lives for clubbing and casual sex, and the shy Alex, who is ... Weiterlesen

Alon Hilu: Death of a Monk

Alon Hilu: Death of a Monk

UK 2006, 308 pp.,brochure, € 14.95
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In 1840s Damascus, Aslan Farhi leads a miserable life. Despised by his wealthy father, bullied by his siblings, and humiliated by his mother, he forms a close friendship with another boy, only for him to mysteriously disappear when their relationship becomes public knowledge. Aslan is horrified when his father arranges for him to be married to the rabbi's daughter, but ... Weiterlesen

Gore Vidal: Julian

Gore Vidal: Julian

USA 2003, 528 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, »Julian« is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. - Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of ... Weiterlesen

Gore Vidal: The City and the Pillar

Gore Vidal: The City and the Pillar

USA 2003, 207 pp., Pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in »awful kid stuff«, the experience forms Jim's ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents' expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Charioteer

Mary Renault: The Charioteer

USA 2003, 347 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during WW II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: Fire From Heaven

Mary Renault: Fire From Heaven

USA 2002, 375 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India and a new cosmopolitan model for western civilisation. In Alexander's childhood, his defiant character was molded into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: Funeral Games

Mary Renault: Funeral Games

USA 2002, 335 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Alexander the Great died at the age of 33, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India and a new cosmopolitan model for western civilization. Mary Renault imagines the world of this charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and ... Weiterlesen

Philippe Besson: In the Absence of Men

Philippe Besson: In the Absence of Men

UK 2001, 198 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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It is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son of a prestigious family, the tranquillity of the city sits at odds with the salons and soirees he attends. But, after an electrifying encounter with the enigmatic writer, Marcel P, draws Vincent's desires out ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Last of the Wine

Mary Renault: The Last of the Wine

USA 2001, 389 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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In the 5th century B.C., Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, reaches mnahood during the last phases of the Peloponnesian War. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by the forces of war. Alexias finds himself drawn to the controversial teachings of Socrates, following him even though ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Married Man

Edmund White: The Married Man

USA 2001, 310 pp, pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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A middle aged American works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. To Austin's amused astonishment, life takes on the colour of romance. As they dash between Bohemian suppers and glittering salons, all they have to deal with ... Weiterlesen

Jackie Kay: Trumpet

Jackie Kay: Trumpet

USA 2000, 282 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude with a tabloid journalist. ... Weiterlesen

Daniel Mendelsohn: The Elusive Embrace

Daniel Mendelsohn: The Elusive Embrace

Desire and the Riddle of Identity. USA 1999, 209 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, »The Elusive Embrace« is an exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

UK 1998, 252 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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»I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking«, are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation of the decadence and repression, glamour and sleaze of Berlin ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy

Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy

UK 2020, 316 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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Set in the mannered, lush world of upper middle class Tamils in Sri Lanka, this deeply moving first novel, though not autobiographical, draws on Selvadurai's experience of being gay in Sri Lanka and growing up during the escalating violence between the Buddhist Sinhala majority and Hindu Tamil minority in the 1970s and early 1980s. Arjie Chelvaratnam, at the age of ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Genet

Edmund White: Genet

A Biography. USA 1994, 728 pp., brochure, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
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Bastard, thief, prostitute, jailbird, homosexual, rebel, Jean Genet was one of French literature's sacred monsters. In works from »Our Lady of the Flowers« to »The Screens«, he created a scandalous personal mythology while savaging the conventions of his society. His career was a series of calculated shocks marked by feuds, rootlessness, and the embrace of unpopular causes and outcast peoples. ... Weiterlesen

  
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