deep vellum publishing dez 2018 (12 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this miniature masterpiece, Róbert Gál?whom Joshua Cohen has called "a phenomenon"?conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and philosophy,Agnomiatakes the reader on a transcontinental journey from Lower Manhattan to the Little Quarter of Prague, but most of all it takes the reader on a tour of the writer's mind. Meditations on tautology, sexuality, and art culminate in an attentive evocation of a concert given by the composer and saxophonist John Zorn. For readers of Thomas Bernhard, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran,Agnomiais a book to relish.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hired to write a travel article for a magazine, Ulan-Bator ventures to Mongolia, where he finds a cast of odd and outlandish expatriates, including an ex-Red Army officer turned Buddhist, a French zombie, and an American correspondent for a newspaper that no longer exists. At the center of this philosophical romance is the Genghis Khan Hotel, where a group of drunken intellectuals endlessly debate a new cosmological theory proposing that the world itself is a hologram.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. A hymn to the city of Sofia, a series of whimsical character portraits, a literary mural of Bulgaria at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Is There Anybody There to Love You is the first collection of stories from EU Prize-winning author Kalin Terziyski to be published in English. In these pages, you will meet the Collector of Valuable Things (packs of cigarettes, love letters, a magpie¿s feather), a private eye at the end of his rope, and a young boy coming to terms, like the rest of us, with the mysteries of his existence. Most of all, you will be introduced to a gifted new writer, whose humanity and humor are reminiscent of Bruno Schulz and Bohumil Hrabal.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The twenty-first century doesn¿t much care for subtlety. Now is the era of the gist, the elevator pitch, the big idea boiled down. This is precisely why Christopher Woodall¿s fiction gives such pleasure. His meticulous stories about love, death, fidelity, friendship, and human solitude do not wave their narrative arms wildly, demanding unwarranted attention. They speak in a calm voice, inviting the reader closer¿inviting him not merely to react but to feel and think. Sweets and Toxins is the first collection of short fiction to be published by this talented novelist (November) and it marks him as a writer whose sharp eye for detail and feeling for people is a rare commodity indeed. He is one of the major English authors writing today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If the team that makes The Moth travelled back in time to a Soviet factory, these are the grotesquely funny stories they'd come back with.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Originally published in Polish by Nisza Publishing House (Poland) as Pensjonat in 2009'--Title page verso.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'At the center of this novel is the story of a daughter looking after her mother, who's been admitted to a nursing home after a stroke landed her in the hospital. All her mother wants is pain medicine and to go home. This delicate situation serves as a jumping-off point for Rudan to wander freely through memories of her parents, her husband, friends, and a daughter of her own. Out of these materials, Rudan weaves together an unsentimental, unflinching story about the difficult love that exists between parents and children, the inability of people ever to say the right thing, the grotesque--yet universal--process of growing old, and the perverse mysteries of love and death.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Sehnsucht: the yearning for faraway people or places. When Jonathan graduates from university with a degree in literature his father hands him two gifts: an alarm clock and the chance to work in the family business. But Jonathan has different plans. Leaving behind his eccentric family and stifling German hometown, he embarks on a hitchhiking adventure through Australia in search of Alice, an exchange student he knew back in school who left mysteriously one night without explanation. This stunning and rich debut novel is a story about coming of age and coming to terms with the past. It explores the lure of the open road and the joys of traversing geographic borders, language barriers, and cultural boundaries'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. This collection of sixteen stories takes us on an eccentric tour of contemporary existence. A lonely man rants about everything under the sun, including the sun itself. A vampire recounts the history and travails of the Balkans¿ bloodsucking community. A grief-stricken widower leads his son on a frantic search through the night. A husband and his pregnant wife argue, in Raymond Carver-like fashion, over whether Carver¿s stories will have a negative influence on the baby. In prose rich with Nabokovian detail and barroom humor, Spahi¿ paints a portrait of a world so strange, it could only exist in the twenty-first century.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now in its tenth year, Best European Fiction continues to be an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. This year¿s anthology brings together some of the most exciting prose writing in Europe today, by writers such as Alberto Olmos, Lars Petter Sveen, Xabier López López, Teolinda Gersão, and Ádám Bodor. Ranging from the firmly well-established to rising young writers never before translated into English, the stories of Best European Fiction 2019 are bound to provoke and delight.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The sharp, lyrical versepersonal and politicalof a poet that paints a literary window into his contested homeland, Kurdistan.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Irish writing is currently enjoying a renaissance. Strange, original talents are blossoming, wielding styles and perspectives as variant as the inspirations they bring to bear on their work. [This book] seeks to situate this recent flowering within the centuries-long efforts of Irish writers to experiment and to innovate, to make the form of the novel new and strange again'--.