Verlag: Canongate Books Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786890003 ISBN 13: 9781786890009
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her.Devastated, Sheila returns to the country of her birth, haunted by questions. How had she failed to protect her sister Was Maxine's death a matter of chance, or destiny What lies in the soil of their troubled motherland that condemns its women to such violence.
Verlag: Canongate Books Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1782119787 ISBN 13: 9781782119784
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 2015 erfährt die australische Schriftstellerin Cory Taylor, dass sie nicht mehr lange zu leben hat. In nur wenigen Wochen verfasste sie dieses Buch, das kurz vor ihrem Tod 2016 erschien. Auf bemerkenswerte Weise reflektiert sie über den Sinn der Zeit, die ihr noch bleibt. Sie lässt uns teilhaben an ihrer Erfahrung, was das Sterben sie gelehrt hat. Der universellen Frage über ein Leben nach dem Tod begegnet sie als nichtreligiöser Mensch in einer sie selbst überraschenden spirituellen Form. Sie erfasst die transformative Kraft des Prozesses, in dem sie sich befindet, und es gelingt ihr, sich diesem kreativ und ehrlich zu stellen. Cory Taylor hat uns allen mit diesem Buch etwas Wertvolles geschenkt. Klug, schlicht und zutiefst weise sind ihre Gedanken über das Sterben, die zugleich eine Hymne an das Leben sind.
Verlag: Canongate Books Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786890526 ISBN 13: 9781786890528
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Michel Faber has written nine other books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Book of Strange New Things, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award 2015, and most recently Undying, his first poetry collection. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.
Verlag: Canongate Books Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786891395 ISBN 13: 9781786891396
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Prepare to enter a world where the infatuation with death, ruin and destruction is total. Set in locations from New York to the west of Ireland, and to the nameless realms of the imagination, it is a world where beautiful but deranged children make lethal bombs, talented sculptors spend careers dismembering themselves in pursuit of their art, and wasters rise up with axes and turn into patricides.McCormack's celebrated debut collection is richly imaginative, bitterly funny, powerful and original.
Verlag: Canongate Books Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1782113215 ISBN 13: 9781782113218
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks. Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalise it and make it meaningful. It has two simple intentions: to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts.
Verlag: Canongate Books Jul 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 178211842X ISBN 13: 9781782118428
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Everyone says that Ese is the most beautiful woman in the region, but a fool. A young widow, she lives in a village, where the crops grow tall and the people are ruled over by a Chief on a white horse. She married for love, but now her husband is dead, leaving her with nothing but a market stall and a young son to feed.When the Chief knocks on Ese's door demanding that she marry again, as the laws of the land dictate she must, Ese is a fool once more. There is a high price for breaking the law, and an even greater cost for breaking the heart of a Chief. Ese will face the wrath of gods and men in the fight to preserve her heart, to keep her son and to right centuries of wrongs. She will change the lives of many on the road to freedom, and she will face the greatest pain a mother ever can.Wake Me When I'm Gone is a story of curses broken and lives remade, of great tragedy and incredible rebirth. In this, his second novel, Nigerian writer Odafe Atogun unfolds a world rich with tradition and folklore, a world filled with incredible people of remarkable strength, a world that is changing fast.