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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she's unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by 'one of Europe's major humanist writers' (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination - and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk's native Poland.; Ein Dorf an der polnisch-tschechischen Grenze. Im Sommer tummeln sich hier wohlhabende Warschauer. In den Wintermonaten fliehen die meisten Einwohner das windumtoste Hochplateau im Glatzer Kessel. Die alleinstehende Englischlehrerin Janina Deszeijko widmet sich in den langen dunklen Tagen ihren astrologischen Studien und der Übersetzung von Gedichten des verehrten Willam Blake. Man hält die alte Dame für verschroben, wenn nicht gar für verrückt, auch weil sie die Gesellschaft von Tieren der von Menschen vorzieht. Dann gibt es einen Toten. Janinas ungeliebter Nachbar Big Foot ist grausam erstickt, in seiner Kehle steckt der Knochen eines Tiers. Und es bleibt nicht bei dieser einen Leiche. Janina hat einen starken Verdacht und ermittelt auf eigene Faust. Aber ist sie wirklich auf der richtigen Spur Komödie, Fabel, Thriller, politischer Essay, literarisches Spiel - dieser Roman passt in keine Schublade. Auf ebenso komische, wie erschütternde Weise zeigt Tokarczuk gemeinsam mit ihrer hinreißend-schrulligen Heldin, wie sehr es unserer Gesellschaft an Empathie und Respekt mangelt, ob unsere Mitmenschen oder der Natur gegenüber, und erzählt zugleich eine rasante Kriminalgeschichte reich an skurrilem Witz. 274 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she's unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by 'one of Europe's major humanist writers' (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination - and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk's native Poland.; Ein Dorf an der polnisch-tschechischen Grenze. Im Sommer tummeln sich hier wohlhabende Warschauer. In den Wintermonaten fliehen die meisten Einwohner das windumtoste Hochplateau im Glatzer Kessel. Die alleinstehende Englischlehrerin Janina Deszeijko widmet sich in den langen dunklen Tagen ihren astrologischen Studien und der Übersetzung von Gedichten des verehrten Willam Blake. Man hält die alte Dame für verschroben, wenn nicht gar für verrückt, auch weil sie die Gesellschaft von Tieren der von Menschen vorzieht. Dann gibt es einen Toten. Janinas ungeliebter Nachbar Big Foot ist grausam erstickt, in seiner Kehle steckt der Knochen eines Tiers. Und es bleibt nicht bei dieser einen Leiche. Janina hat einen starken Verdacht und ermittelt auf eigene Faust. Aber ist sie wirklich auf der richtigen Spur Komödie, Fabel, Thriller, politischer Essay, literarisches Spiel - dieser Roman passt in keine Schublade. Auf ebenso komische, wie erschütternde Weise zeigt Tokarczuk gemeinsam mit ihrer hinreißend-schrulligen Heldin, wie sehr es unserer Gesellschaft an Empathie und Respekt mangelt, ob unsere Mitmenschen oder der Natur gegenüber, und erzählt zugleich eine rasante Kriminalgeschichte reich an skurrilem Witz. 274 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -An absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of its own. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -An absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of its own. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother's condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the author's own social ascent. Mirroring A Man's Place, in which she narrates her father's slow rise to material comfort, A Woman's Story explores the ambiguous and unshakeable bond between mother and daughter, its fluctuation over the course of their lives, the alienating worlds that separate them and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute to the last thread connecting her to the world out of which she was born, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was. 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother's condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the author's own social ascent. Mirroring A Man's Place, in which she narrates her father's slow rise to material comfort, A Woman's Story explores the ambiguous and unshakeable bond between mother and daughter, its fluctuation over the course of their lives, the alienating worlds that separate them and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute to the last thread connecting her to the world out of which she was born, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was. 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A delicate examination of memory and grief from the author of Essayism (published by NYRB in September 2018. Melds personal reflections with insights on the works of writers and artists including Barthes, Proust, Rachel Whiteread and Nabokov. In the Dark Room will appeal to fans of Maggie Nelson, and has a recent endorsement by John Banville and a new foreword by Frances Wilson. Originally published in 2005, In the Dark Room is the author's first book and won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. Author is a critic and reviewer for the London Review of Books, Guardian and New York Times. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A delicate examination of memory and grief from the author of Essayism (published by NYRB in September 2018. Melds personal reflections with insights on the works of writers and artists including Barthes, Proust, Rachel Whiteread and Nabokov. In the Dark Room will appeal to fans of Maggie Nelson, and has a recent endorsement by John Banville and a new foreword by Frances Wilson. Originally published in 2005, In the Dark Room is the author's first book and won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. Author is a critic and reviewer for the London Review of Books, Guardian and New York Times. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -WINNER OF THE 2019 FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS ESSAY PRIZE: Fifty Sounds won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, an annual competition for unpublished writers that seeks to reward the best proposal for a book-length essay. Previous winners include Matthew McNaught's Immanuel and Joanna Pocock's Surrender, which was published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo in May 2019 and in North America by House of Anansi in September 2019. WRITING & TRANSLATION: Leaning on the works of Wittgenstein and Sontag,Fifty Sounds is an attentive and generous exploration of language, writing and translation that will appeal to readers of with an interest in linguistics and translation and to fans of ANNE CARSON, LYDIA DAVIS, and KATE BRIGGS. TRAVEL WRITING & JAPAN: As a record of Polly Barton's time in Japan, Fifty Sounds will appeal to fans of travel writing, especially to those with an interest in ever-popular Japan. Fifty Sounds carefully avoids romanticising the country, seeking instead to delve more deeply and honestly - yet still affectionately - into its cultural and linguistic landscape. 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -WINNER OF THE 2019 FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS ESSAY PRIZE: Fifty Sounds won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, an annual competition for unpublished writers that seeks to reward the best proposal for a book-length essay. Previous winners include Matthew McNaught's Immanuel and Joanna Pocock's Surrender, which was published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo in May 2019 and in North America by House of Anansi in September 2019. WRITING & TRANSLATION: Leaning on the works of Wittgenstein and Sontag,Fifty Sounds is an attentive and generous exploration of language, writing and translation that will appeal to readers of with an interest in linguistics and translation and to fans of ANNE CARSON, LYDIA DAVIS, and KATE BRIGGS. TRAVEL WRITING & JAPAN: As a record of Polly Barton's time in Japan, Fifty Sounds will appeal to fans of travel writing, especially to those with an interest in ever-popular Japan. Fifty Sounds carefully avoids romanticising the country, seeking instead to delve more deeply and honestly - yet still affectionately - into its cultural and linguistic landscape. 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest, they communicate; Rose feeds. Thoughts and associations travel far beyond the remit of the front room in their rented flat, which they pace, and which, alive with them, continually becomes new. Their delicate balance is interrupted by the delivery of A History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - a novel which describes itself, semi-seriously, as inventing the novel-form for the very first time. As the morning progresses, Helen starts reading it. Indirectly, and each in their own distinct ways, Helen and Rose start thinking about it: its claims to newness, its length, its essayistic digressions, its invitation to imagine old and new forms of life, writing, and experience. The Long Form, Windham Campbell Prize-winner Kate Briggs' long-awaited debut fiction, unmakes and remakes the novel to meditate on very real social issues, from housing, to care-taking, to friendship, laying bare the settings and support structures that make durational forms of co-existence first thinkable, then possible. At once acrobatic and deeply attentive, The Long Form insists on the creativity inherent in everyday life, showing how the acts of social composition (living arrangements) are continuous with the acts of artistic composition (page arrangements). It is a brilliant novel of profound contrasts and productive co-dependencies, in which the small details of a day speak to the largest questions of form, responsibility, continuation and love. 480 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest, they communicate; Rose feeds. Thoughts and associations travel far beyond the remit of the front room in their rented flat, which they pace, and which, alive with them, continually becomes new. Their delicate balance is interrupted by the delivery of A History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - a novel which describes itself, semi-seriously, as inventing the novel-form for the very first time. As the morning progresses, Helen starts reading it. Indirectly, and each in their own distinct ways, Helen and Rose start thinking about it: its claims to newness, its length, its essayistic digressions, its invitation to imagine old and new forms of life, writing, and experience. The Long Form, Windham Campbell Prize-winner Kate Briggs' long-awaited debut fiction, unmakes and remakes the novel to meditate on very real social issues, from housing, to care-taking, to friendship, laying bare the settings and support structures that make durational forms of co-existence first thinkable, then possible. At once acrobatic and deeply attentive, The Long Form insists on the creativity inherent in everyday life, showing how the acts of social composition (living arrangements) are continuous with the acts of artistic composition (page arrangements). It is a brilliant novel of profound contrasts and productive co-dependencies, in which the small details of a day speak to the largest questions of form, responsibility, continuation and love. 480 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A major work by one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century, The Question of Palestine was the first book to narrate the modern Palestinian experience in English. Edward Said's project to 'bring Palestine into history' was unquestionably a success - there is no longer a question of whether Palestine had a history before colonization - and yet Palestinian self-determination is as distant as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and shaped by his own life in exile in New York, Said's account of the traumatic national encounter of the Palestinian people with Zionism is still as pertinent and incisive today as it was on first publication in 1979. 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A major work by one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century, The Question of Palestine was the first book to narrate the modern Palestinian experience in English. Edward Said's project to 'bring Palestine into history' was unquestionably a success - there is no longer a question of whether Palestine had a history before colonization - and yet Palestinian self-determination is as distant as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and shaped by his own life in exile in New York, Said's account of the traumatic national encounter of the Palestinian people with Zionism is still as pertinent and incisive today as it was on first publication in 1979. 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of its own. Captivated by the stellar charms of seclusion but restless with desire, the woman's relationship with her surroundings becomes boundless and increasingly bewildering. Claire-Louise Bennett's startlingly original first collection slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother's condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the author's own social ascent. Mirroring A Man's Place, in which she narrates her father's slow rise to material comfort, A Woman's Story explores the ambiguous and unshakeable bond between mother and daughter, its fluctuation over the course of their lives, the alienating worlds that separate them and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute to the last thread connecting her to the world out of which she was born, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother's final days after she is hospitalized following a fall. Though a devout Catholic, her faith is subsumed by her terror of death, and as her body fails, she clings to life with fierce, primal desperation. In depicting her mother's refusal to 'go gentle' while her autonomy and dignity are taken from her, Simone de Beauvoir 'shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence' (Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - From one of the most lauded artists of his generation comes a purging soliloquy: a profound nowt delivered in some spent afterwards. Scorched by senility and nostalgia, and wracked by all kinds of hunger, Ed Atkins' Old Food lurches from allegory to listicle, from lyric to menu, fetching up a plummeting, idiomatic and crabbed tableau from the cannibalised remains of each form in turn. Written in conjunction with Atkins' exhibition of the same name, Old Food is a hard Brexit, wadded with historicity, melancholy and a bravura kind of stupidity. Ed Atkins is an artist who makes all kinds of convolutions of self-portraiture. He writes uncomfortably intimate, debunked prophesies; paints travesties; and makes realistic computer generated videos that often feature figures that resemble the artist in the throes of unaccountable psychical crises. Atkins' artificial realism, whether written or animated, pastiches romanticism to get rendered down to a sentimental blubber - all the better to model those bleak feelings often so inexpressible in real life.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labour, and ending with Johannes''s own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different,Morning and Eveningis a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An elegant and erudite essay on suicide from the series moderator of 'The Stone', a philosophy column in the New York Times.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the École de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for whom he is a 'mentally ill person' suffering from 'gender dysphoria', Preciado draws inspiration in his lecture from Kafka's 'A Report to an Academy', in which a monkey tells an assembly of scientists that human subjectivity is a cage comparable to one made of metal bars. Demonstrating the discipline's complicity with the ideology of sex, gender and sexual difference dating back to the colonial era, Preciado was heckled and booed and unable to finish. The lecture, filmed on smartphones, ended up published online, where fragments were transcribed, translated and published with no regard for exactitude. Eighteen months on, Can the Monster Speak is published in a definitive translation for the first time.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, when she worked as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she spent with a man.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A sizzling, sometimes shocking and strangely tragic love story between two men, Box Hill, the winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, is a stunning novel of desire and domination by one of Britains most accomplished writers.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Surreal, ambitious and exquisitely conceived, The Doll''s Alphabet is a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies - many images recur in stories that are in turn child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark. In 'Unstitching', a feminist revolution takes place. In 'Waxy', a factory worker fights to keep hold of her Man in a society where it is frowned upon to be Manless. In 'Agata''s Machine', two schoolgirls conjure a Pierrot and an angel in a dank attic room. In 'Notes from a Spider', a half-man, half-spider finds love in a great European city. By constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has come up with a method for storytelling that is highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a tangential work of film criticism, one that is not removed from its subject matter, but rather explores with great feeling how art gives meaning to and enriches our lives.Perennially on the outside, Brian has led a solitary life; he works at Camden Council, lunches every day at Il Castelletto café and then returns to his small flat on Kentish Town Road. It is an existence carefully crafted to avoid disturbance and yet Brian yearns for more. A visit one day to the BFI brings film into his life, and Brian introduces a new element to his routine: nightly visits to the cinema on London's South Bank. Through the works of Yasujiro Ozu, Federico Fellini, Agnes Varda, Yilmaz Güney and others, Brian gains access to a rich cultural landscape outside his own experience, but also achieves his first real moments of belonging, accepted by a curious bunch of amateur film buffs, the small informal group of BFI regulars.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love. Out of their dialogues, piece by piece, a composite image of love takes form, one that moves outwards beyond the realm of relationships and into metaphysics, geology, linguistics, AI. Years previously, a writer and her husband, a Latin professor, stay in Venice while she works on a text. As they roam the city, strange occurrences accumulate, signalling that the world around them is heading towards a point of no return. Blending fiction and essay, poetry and philosophy, Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves is a startling, expansive work of imaginative agility, one that renders love unfamiliar so as to renew it, and makes the case for hope in the midst of a disintegrating present.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - After several years of absence, a man reappears in the life of a woman and their young son. Intent on being a family again, he drives them to Les Roches, a dilapidated house in the mountains, where the man grew up with his own ruthless father. While the mother watches the passing days with apprehension, the son discovers the enchantment of nature, savage and bewitching. As the father's hold over them intensifies, the return to their previous life and home seems increasingly impossible. Haunted by his past and consumed with jealousy, the man slowly sinks into madness and his son has no choice but to challenge his father in an attempt to save something of their humanity. Written in flawless, cinematic prose and brilliantly translated by Frank Wynne, The Son of Man is an exceptional novel of nature and wildness that traces how violence is inherited from one generation to the next, and a blistering examination of how families fold together and break apart under duress.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaíma, by Mário de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they leave their home in the northern Amazon for a whirlwind tour of Brazil, cramming four centuries and a continental expanse into a single mythic plane. Having lost a magic amulet, the hero and his brothers journey to São Paulo to retrieve the talisman that has fallen into the hands of an Italo-Peruvian captain of industry (who is also a cannibal giant). Written over six delirious days - the fruit of years of study - Macunaíma magically synthesizes dialect, folklore, anthropology, mythology, flora, fauna, and pop culture to examine Brazilian identity. This brilliant translation by Katrina Dodson has been many years in the making and includes an extensive section of notes providing essential background information for this magnificent work.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS ESSAY PRIZE IN 2018: Surrender won the third annual Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2018, an annual competition for British and Irish writers yet to have secured a publishing deal, rewarding the best proposal for a book-length essay. The prize, which was judged by Joanna Biggs, Brian Dillon, Joanna Kavenna, Paul Keegan and Jacques Testard, was set up to find the best emerging essay writers and aims to reward essays that explore and expand the possibilities of the form. Initially made possible by an Arts Council Grant in 2015, it provides the winning author with their first experiences of publishing a book, from the planning, research and writing of it through to the editing, production and publicity stages. The book will then be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. A NARRATIVE NONFICTION WORK SET IN MONTANA: Joanna Pocock's debut is a work of narrative nonfiction nature writing in the style of Barry Lopez and Annie Dillard, set in Montana.