Book type: fiction (8820)
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Vertigo by Winfried Georg Sebald EN
GermanyDescription:
Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, the artistry of Pisanello, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, a missing passport, Casanova, the suicide of a dinner companion, stale apple cake, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka about a doomed huntsman and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona?
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Verwirrung der Gefühle by Stefan Zweig DE
AustriaDescription:
»Wir erleben Myriaden Sekunden, und doch wird’s immer nur eine, eine einzige, die unsere ganze innere Welt in Wallung bringt« – und es ist jene Sekunde, an die sich der 60-jährige Englischprofessor erinnert, als er die ihm gewidmete Festschrift durchsieht, in der so viele Namen stehen, aber der eine fehlt: der Name jenes Mannes, der sein Schicksal bestimmte. Die Erinnerung ruft ihn in seine Jugend zurück, in seine Studienzeit, als eine brillante Vorlesung seine Leidenschaft für das Lernen weckte – und eine eigentümliche Faszination für den... continue
Latvia
Sweden8395.
Viaje de novios by Patrick Modiano ES
FranceDescription:
Milán en pleno agosto. La ciudad está casi desierta, todas las tiendas están cerradas y el calor es insoportable. El narrador, Jean B., director de documentales, se refugia en su hotel y escucha al barman contándole a otro cliente que hace unos días se suicidó allí una mujer francesa. Más tarde le pregunta al barman por esa mujer y éste le cuenta algunas cosas: que venía de París, que iba a reunirse con unos amigos en Capri, que era muy guapa... Ya en la estación, antes de partir, el narrador compra el Corriere della Sera y lee un suelto sobre ese suicidio. La información allí contenida, pese ... continue
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Viaţa la ţară by Duiliu Zamfirescu RO
RomaniaDescription:
Primul roman al ciclului Comăneștenilor este considerat aproape în unanimitate de criticii literari drept cel mai valoros, prin echilibrul de realism și de idealism, prin poezia pământului și a vechii noastre boierimi iubitoare de pământ, și, mai ales, prin neuitata creațiune a Sașei, după cum aprecia Eugen Lovinescu. Autorul elogiază poetic frumusețea pământului natal, traiul liniștit și patriarhal, tradițiile de familie și iubirea platonică petrecută într-un mediu idilic.
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Victoire : My Mother's Mother by Maryse Condé EN
Description:
The critically acclaimed, award-winning author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. Maryse Condé's personal journey of discovery and revelation becomes ours as we learn of Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a family of white Creoles, in the French Antilles. Using her formidable skills as a storyteller, Condé describes her grandmother as having "Australian whiteness for the color of her skin...She jarred with my world of women in Itali... continue
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NorwayDescription:
The Nobel Prize winner’s poetic, psychologically intense portrayal of love’s predicament in a class-bound society A Penguin Classic Set in a coastal village of late nineteenth-century Norway, Victoria follows two lovers whose yearnings are as powerful as the circumstances that conspire to thwart their romance. Johannes, a miller’s son turned poet, finds inspiration for his writing in his passionate devotion to Victoria, a daughter of the impoverished lord of the manor, who feels constrained by family loyalty to accept the wealthy young man of her father’s choice. Separated by class barriers an... continue
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Victory City by Salman Rushdie EN
IndiaDescription:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year • “Victory City is a triumph—not because it exists, but because it is utterly enchanting.”—The Atlantic A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, The Globe and Mail, Bookrepor... continue
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Vida e insólitas aventuras del soldado Iván Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovitch ES
Country: Asia / 
Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Description:
En vísperas del estallido de la segunda guerra mundial, un avión del Ejército Rojo realiza un aterrizaje forzoso en una remota aldea rusa. El soldado Iván Chonkin un campesino desmañado e ingenuo, dotado de un peculiar sentido común, considerado el miembro más prescindible de su regimiento, e s enviado allí con órdenes de custodiar el aparato. Olvidado rápidamente por sus superiores, Chonkin se integra en la peculiar vida del pueblo, donde protagoniza un sinfín de escenas hilarantes en compañía de sus estrafalarios vecinos, como el presidente del koljós, obsesionado por la amenaza de su hipoté... continue