Nobel Prize in Literature (215)
South Korea132.
Mi vida querida by Alice Munro ES
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
La gran autora canadiense nos sorprende de nuevo con Mi vida querida, una colección de cuentos donde vemos a hombres y mujeres obligados a traficar con la vida sin más recursos que su humanidad. Comienzos, finales, virajes del destino ... y de repente, cuando creíamos que el relato llegaría a su obvia conclusión, Munro nos invita a dar otra vuelta de tuerca que cambia el fluir de los acontecimientos y emociona al lector, mostrando hasta qué punto esa vida cotidiana que tanto nos cansa puede llegar a ser extraordinaria. Cierran el volumen unas páginas que Munro dedica a su propia vida, unas not... continue
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Mil Grullas by Yasunari Kawabata ES
JapanDescription:
"A Thousand Cranes" is by Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), who was made the first Japanese Nobel laureate for literature in 1968.
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Morning and Evening -- WINNER of the 2023 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE by Jon Fosse EN
NorwayDescription:
A novel about the birth and death of Johannes the fisherman - a key work in 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse's oeuvre.
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My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk EN
TurkeyDescription:
** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Award 'Wonderful' The Spectator 'Magnificent' Observer 'Sumptuous' New Yorker 'Unforgettable' Guardian My Name is Red is an unforgettable murder mystery, set amid the splendour of sixteenth century Istanbul, from the Nobel prizewinning author In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. At a time of violent fundamental... continue
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Mysteries : A Novel by Knut Hamsun EN
Description:
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, righteous and depraved, Nagel seduces the entire community even as he turns it on its head—before disappearing as suddenly as he arrived.
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Narciso e Boccadoro by Hermann Hesse IT
GermanyDescription:
Abstract: In de late middeleeuwen krijgt in de relatie tussen twee totaal verschillende mannen het conflict tussen ascese en de zinnelijkheid gestalte.
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Nieve by Orhan Pamuk ES
Description:
Tras doce años de exilio en Alemania, el poeta y periodista Ka regresa a su Turquía natal por la muerte de su madre. Allí, un crimen político, una oleada de suicidios y la posibilidad de reencontrarse con su amor de juventud le conducirán a la ciudad de Kars, una tierra miserable donde la gente vive atrapada entre el terrorismo kurdo y la rigidez de una política islámica radical; el choque entre sus ideas occidentales y el lado más drástico del islam llevará a Ka replantearse su relación con sus orígenes y con Dios.
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Nights of Plague : A novel by Orhan Pamuk EN
Description:
From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives—brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca or by merchant vessels coming from Alex... continue