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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neu neuware, importqualität, auf lager - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE 'Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers - with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout.' - The New York Times Book Review (cover review) 'Elaborate, sensual.a writer whose books are too exotic and unusual to be missed.'- The New York Times ' Fates and Furies is a clear-the-ground triumph.' -Ron Charles, The Washington Post From the award-winning, New York Times- bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia , one of the most anticipated books of the fall: an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart. From the Hardcover edition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A dark and unexpected novel about a Dublin undertaker who finds himself onthe wrong side ofthe Irish mob.Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher s, a long-established some say the best funeral home in Dublin. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with a client, Paddy hits a pedestrian crossing the street. He pulls over and gets out of his car, intending to do the right thing. As he bends over to help the man, he recognizes him. It s Donal Cullen, brother of one of the most notorious mobsters in Dublin. And he s dead.Shocked and scared, Paddy jumps back in his car and drives away before anyone notices what s happened.The next morning, the Cullen family calls Gallagher s to oversee the funeral arrangements. Paddy, to his dismay, is given the task of meeting with the grieving Vincent Cullen, Dublin s crime boss, and Cullen s entourage. When events go awry, Paddy is plunged into an unexpected eddy of intrigue, deceit, and treachery.By turns a thriller, a love story, and a black comedy of ill manners, The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley is a surprising, compulsively readable debut novel.

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Zustand: New. A New York Times Bestseller A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens. -Bustle Ultra-readable. -VogueFrom the New York Times-bestsell.

Zustand: New. Pitch-perfect. -People You won t be able to quit these characters. -goopThe addictive novel about four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of classical music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, p.

Zustand: New. One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor. McBride at his brave and joyous best. -New York Times Book ReviewExciting new fiction .

Zustand: New. Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, NPR and THE ROOTNamed A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ BYVogue - Elle - Harper s Bazaar - Glamour - Buzzfeed - In Style - Men s Journal - Bustle - Ms. Maga.

Zustand: New. From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for be.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to get them right? Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they re also the most difficult: w.

Zustand: New. They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed one on the street today. These are people who have no empathy, who are manipulative, deceitful, charming, seductive, and delusional. The Psychopath Test is the New York Times best.

Zustand: New. Bringing together Jane Austen s most beloved characters and storylines a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, decide the outcomeName: Elizabeth Bennet.Mis.

Zustand: New. A novel set in South Africa that contemplates the elusive line between truth and self-perception.A bold and exciting literary novel set in South Africa that contemplates the elusive line between truth and self-perception.Ambitious and ass.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager - From 'one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers' ( The New York Times ) , intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and 'the war on terror.' Mohsin Hamid's brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, they have earned him a reputation as a 'master critic of the modern global condition' ( Foreign Policy ). His stories are at once timeless and of-the-moment, and his themes are universal: love, language, ambition, power, corruption, religion, family, identity. Here he explores this terrain from a different angle in essays that deftly counterpoise the personal and the political, and are shot through with the same passion, imagination, and breathtaking shifts of perspective that gives his fiction its unmistakable electric charge. A 'water lily' who has called three countries on three continents his home-Pakistan, the birthplace to which he returned as a young father; the United States, where he spent his childhood and young adulthood; and Britain, where he married and became a citizen-Hamid writes about overlapping worlds with fluidity and penetrating insight. Whether he is discussing courtship rituals or pop culture, drones or the rhythms of daily life in an extended family compound, he transports us beyond the scarifying headlines of an anxious West and a volatile East, beyond stereotype and assumption, and helps to bring a dazzling diverse global culture within emotional and intellectual reach.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract with Monsanto. What began as a simple trespassing inquiry mushroomed into a two-year FBI operation in which investigators bugged the men s rental cars, used a warrant intended for foreign terrorists and spies, and flew surveillance planes over corn country all in the name of protecting trade secrets of corporate giants Monsanto and DuPont Pioneer. In The Scientist and the Spy, Hvistendahl gives a gripping account of this unusually far-reaching investigation, which pitted a veteran FBI special agent against Florida resident Robert Mo, who after his academic career foundered took a questionable job with the Chinese agricultural company DBN and became a pawn in a global rivalry.Industrial espionage by Chinese companies lies beneath the United States recent trade war with China, and it is one of the top counterintelligence targets of the FBI. But a decade of efforts to stem the problem have been largely ineffective. Through previously unreleased FBI files and her reporting from across the United States and China, Hvistendahl describes a long history of shoddy counterintelligence on China, much of it tinged with racism, and questions the role that corporate influence plays in trade secrets theft cases brought by the U.S. government. The Scientist and the Spy is both an important exploration of the issues at stake and a compelling, involving read.