Born in Martinique, Patrick Chamoiseau is the author of Texaco, which won the Prix Goncourt and was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as Creole Folktakes and The Old Slave (The New Press), among other works.
36 หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์โดย Linda Coverdale
Jean Echenoz: Lightning
Drawn from the life of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of his time,
Lightning is a captivating tale of one man’s curious fascination with the marvels of science.
Hailed by the …
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Jean Echenoz: 1914
Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in
1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi-award-wi …
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Jean Echenoz: Three By Echenoz
A single volume that gathers together three of the most remarkable novels from Jean Echenoz, the “most distinctive French voice of his generation” (
The Washington Post),
Three by Echenoz demon …
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Mukhtar Mai: In the Name of Honor
In June 2002, journalists throughout the world began to hear of the gang rape of a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala. The rape was ordered by a local clan known as the Mastoi …
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Eva Gabrielsson: "There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me
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Georges Simenon: Misty Harbour
A new translation of Georges Simenon’s gripping tale of lost identity. Book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series.A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the …
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Georges Simenon: Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
The third book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon’s haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, in a compelling new translation by Linda Coverdale.A …
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Georges Simenon: Night at the Crossroads
Is Carl Andersen innocent of murder, or a very good liar?Detective Chief Inspector Maigret has been interrogating the enigmatic Danish aristocrat for seventeen hours. A diamond merchant was found …
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Georges Simenon: Blue Room
A new translation of Simenon’s gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust.It was all real: himself, the room, Andr e still lying on the ravaged bed.For Tony …
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Georges Simenon: Maigret in New York
‘Compelling, remorseless, brilliant’ John Gray What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? . . . Little John had cold eyes! . . . Four or five times in his life, he had met people …
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Georges Simenon: Maigret at the Coroner’s
‘His artistry is supreme’ John Banville The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was incapable of figuring out …
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Georges Simenon: Hand
A new translation of George Simenon’s taut, devastating psychological novel set in American suburbia. The inspiration for the new play by award-winning playwright David Hare.’I had begun, God knows …
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Coverdale Linda Coverdale & Manea Norman Manea: Compulsory Happiness
In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulsory Happiness create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, …
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Patrick Chamoiseau: Slave Old Man
The ‘heart-stopping’ (The Millions), ‘richly layered’ (Brooklyn Rail), ‘haunting, beautiful’ (Buzz Feed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him ‘Slave Old Man is a cloudbur …
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Julia Deck: Viviane
Winner of the inaugural French Voices Award: “[A] masterfully conceived debut, arelentless tale, intricately and irresistibly told” (La Quinzaine Littéraire). Only once in a …
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Jean Echenoz: Ravel
“A tiny miracle of a biographical novel” inspired by the life of the brilliant French composer (Booklist). Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award This …
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Sébastien Japrisot: Rider on the Rain
Described as ‘the Graham Greene of France’ by The Independent, cult French noir writer Japrisot brings us a stylish thriller about revenge.
‘A magician who lays out the truth on the page’ Le Monde …
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Hervé Guibert: To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
With a foreword by Maggie Nelson , an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White ‘Unforgettable, heartbreaking’ New York Times ‘Brilliant’ – Dazed ‘As brutal as it …
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Herve Guibert: To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
A novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator’s experience of being diagnosed with AIDS.First published by Gallimard in 1990, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life …
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Georges Simenon: Maigret Goes to School
‘His artistry is supreme’ John Banville’What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he’d had the same feeling of helplessness or, rather, futility. He would find …
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Emmanuel Carr re: Class Trip
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYLittle Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away on the class …
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Emmanuel Carr re: Other Lives But Mine
Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary Compelling Carr re has the gift of speaking simply and …
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Georges Simenon: Inspector Maigret Omnibus 1
Introducing Inspector Maigret, the literary character behind the major ITV drama starring Rowan Atkinson The first four titles from the new Penguin Inspector Maigret series: Pietr the Latvian, The …
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