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T.C. Boyle After the plague
Bundel met zestien verhalen met een absurdistische inslag.
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Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2021
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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that s impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum StylistDiscover Amy Tan s moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories,...
Engels | ePub2, 2,7 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Salman Rushdie Quichotte
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***In a tour-de-force that is a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Nicci French Waiting for Wednesday
Een 13-jarig meisje treft haar moeder vermoord aan in hun huiskamer in een voorstad van Londen. Psycho-analytica Frieda Klein, nog herstellende van een aanslag op haar leven, wordt stiekem ingeschakeld bij het onderzoek.
Fictie
Engels | ePub3, 3,5 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Nicci French Tuesday's gone
Een sociaal werkster treft bij een cliënte een naakte, dode man aan. De Londense politie schakelt psychoanalytica Frieda Klein in om met de verwarde vrouw te gaan praten.
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Engels | ePub3, 4,6 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Henry James The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. However, on a trip around Europe with her aunt, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea of adding Isabel to his collection of beautiful artworks... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Markus Zusak The Underdog
My name s Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I don t have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family, yes, that doesn t really function without tomato sauce. That s me. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are brothers. They spend most of their time throwing one-handed boxing matches (they only have the one pair of gloves) and plotting to rob the local dentists. But what Cameron really wants is to meet a girl...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook - the golden notebook - that...
Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2021
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Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things
I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ... ' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly...
Engels | ePub2, 7 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her...
Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping
From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, a nineteenth-century...
Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021
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Alice Munro Runaway
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop
From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore', 'The Blue Flower' and 'Innocence' comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted story of books and busybodies in East Anglia. This, Penelope Fitzgerald's second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. 'She had a kind heart, but that is not much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation....
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2021
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Heather Gudenkauf One breath away
Wanneer een ontvoerd Amerikaans meisje (13) ontsnapt aan haar gijzelaar, gaat ze toch weer terug omdat deze haar broertje ook gevangen houdt.
Fictie
Engels | 7 pagina's | Mira, Richmond, Surrey | 2012
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Alice Munro Runaway
Verhalen over vrouwen in cruciale fases van hun leven.
Fictie
Engels | 335 pagina's | Vintage, London [etc.] | 2005
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Katherine Faulkner Greenwich Park
Een zwangere vrouw raakt op een zwangerschapscursus bevriend met een raadselachtige ongehuwd zwangere vrouw die zich steeds meer aan haar opdringt en werkelijk alles over haar en haar familie wil weten.
Fictie
Engels | 442 pagina's | Raven Books, London | 2021
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Katee Robert Neon gods
Hervertelling van de mythe van Persephone en Hades. Een jonge vrouw probeert de stad Olympus te ontvluchten, maar haar moeder wil haar uithuwelijken. Ze sluit een deal met een levensgevaarlijke man die haar belooft te beschermen.
Fictie
Engels | 379 pagina's | Sourcebooks Casablanca, Naperville, Illinois | 2021
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Joyce Carol Oates Breathe
a novel
Gerard en Michaela wonen tijdelijk in New Mexico waar Gerard werkzaam is op een academisch instituut maar wanneer hij totaal onverwacht ongeneeslijk ziek blijkt te zijn, stort hun wereld compleet in.
Fictie
Engels | 364 pagina's | Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [New York, NY] | 2021
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Elizabeth McCracken The souvenir museum
Twaalf korte verhalen die meestal gaan over mensen die uit hun comfortzone zijn gehaald.
Fictie
Engels | 239 pagina's | Jonathan Cape, London | 2021
Gedrukt boek
2021