Nobel Prize in Literature (215)
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Am Gletscher by Halldór Laxness DE
IcelandDescription:
Ein Pfarrhaus in nordischer Gletschereinsamkeit ist der Schauplatz dieses ironisch-weisen Romans des isländischen Nobelpreisträgers Halldor Laxness. Ein junger Theologe, vom Bischof zur Aufklärung mysteriöser Vorfälle dorthin entsandt, sieht sich mit Reden und Taten konfrontiert, die er nicht versteht. Die bodenständige Esoterik der Einheimischen lässt sich mit seinem Tonbandgerät nicht einfangen, und die frappierende, humane Logik des Lebens am Gletscher ist so offenbar, dass sie leicht übersehen werden kann. Es ist dieselbe Logik, die auch die Sag... continue
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Amistad de juventud by Alice Munro ES
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
A collection of ten short stories deals with such subjects as a woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother; an adulterous couple; and a widow discovering unpleasant truths about her husband's past.
Poland14.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. “I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew... continue
Romania16.
Atrapa la vida by Nadine Gordimer ES
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive, he is isolated from other people and he begins to question his work and the politics of South Africa.
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Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer red... continue
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Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann DE
GermanyDescription:
Aufstieg und Niedergang einer Lübecker Kaufmannsfamilie im Verlauf von vier Generationen zwischen 1830 und 1890
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Calle de las Tiendas Oscuras by Patrick Modiano ES
FranceDescription:
La novela es relatada por Guy Roland, un hombre que ha perdido la memoria y trata de reconstruir su pasado y saber quien fue. Aplica la experiencia de sus ocho años como detective para recorrer pistas, e incluso algunas falsas permiten retomar el tenue hilo de Ariadna. Por momentos la ilación puede dificultar el seguimiento, y puede ser conveniente hacer un resumen. Bueno.
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Chronik eines angekündigten Todes by Gabriel García Márquez DE
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Ein Dorf an der kolumbianischen Karibikküste feiert ein rauschendes Hochzeitsfest. Doch noch in der Hochzeitsnacht wird die Braut in ihr Elternhaus zurückgebracht: sie war nicht unberührt. Der mutmassliche Täter muss sterben... (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso).