Der neunjährige Bruno weiß nichts von der Endlösung oder dem Holocaust. Er ist unberührt von den entsetzlichen Grausamkeiten, die sein Land dem europäischen Volk zufügt.
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appealing cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to ...
It is a masterpiece of religious allegory transformed into intense drama, its style unsurpassed, its characters superbly individualized, indelibly alive, and as memorable as the landmarks on Christian's perilous journey toward salvation.
In surreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, a US marine sergeant is killed inside a locked Mercedes by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras.
Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep has seen just about everything on his beat in Bangkok's crime-riddled District 8. But the terrifying snuff movie he's been sent anonymously is something else: the person who dies is Damrong, the beautiful woman he once love
This outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century.
Sixteen year old Solomon has agoraphobia. He hasn't left his house in three years, which is fine by him. At home, he is the master of his own kingdom--even if his kingdom doesn't extend outside of the house.
A modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer includes an introduction by Jay McInerney in Penguin Modern Classics.
In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses "camera eye" and "newsreel" sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, fictional and historical figures, he builds up a composite picture of American society.
John Fante is a lost gem of American literature and the man who was credited by Charles Bukowski as the inspiration for him to start writing. In a life that spanned 74 years, Fante wrote several great novels, such as Ask the Dust.
The Brotherhood of the Grape is vintage Fante, brimming with love, death, violence and religion.Writing with great passion, Fante powerfully describes the damage that family can wreak upon us all.
Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, Fante's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy.
Ein mitterlalterliches Königreich, bedroht von bösen Kräften und ungeheuerlichen Kreaturen, verteidigt von einem jungen Waldläufer und seinen Freunden - willkommen in Araluen!
Als Archäologen bei Ausgrabungen der Ruinen von Burg Redmont auf die Reste einer Waldläufer-Hütte stoßen, trauen sie ihren Augen kaum – denn darin befindet sich ein Pergament mit Geschichten aus längst vergangenen Zeiten...