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Surfacing
1997 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Little, Brown Book Group
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments and Alias Grace'One of the most important novels of the 20th century . . .
utterly remarkable' New York Times'I feel it will be different if I look myself. Probably when we get there my father will have returned from wherever he has been, he will be sitting in the cabin waiting for us.'A young woman returns to northern Quebec, to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and her two friends to investigate the mysterious disappearan...
Notes from the Underground
2019 || Paperback || Fyodor Dostoyevsky || Outlook Verlag
Reproduction of the original: Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Train Dreams
2023 || Paperback || Denis Johnson || Granta Books
'A masterpiece... one of the best prose writers in our time' Michael OndaatjeRobert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling the trees that feed the railways. It is the start of the twentieth century, and the world is changing at a rapid pace.
Life is fragile in the wilds of the frontier; disease and forest fires are rife. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier journeys, struggling to make sense of the bewildering changes transforming the nation. Rich and muscular, sweep...
Americanah / 1st edition
2021 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || HarperCollins
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria.
Self-assured Ifemelu heads for America. But quiet, thoughtful Obinze finds post-9/11 America closed to...
Homegoing
2017 || Paperback || Yaa Gyasi || Penguin
A BBC Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our WorldEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow.
Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gr...
QualityLand / Helle Ausgaben
2019 || Paperback || Marc-Uwe Kling || Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag
Willkommen in QualityLand, in einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft: Alles läuft rund - Arbeit, Freizeit und Beziehungen sind von Algorithmen optimiert. Trotzdem beschleicht den Maschinenverschrotter Peter Arbeitsloser immer mehr das Gefühl, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Wenn das System wirklich so perfekt ist, warum gibt es dann Drohnen, die an Flugangst leiden, oder Kampfroboter mit posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung? Warum werden die Maschinen immer menschlicher, aber die Mens...
Gilead
An Oprah's Book Club Pick
2024 || Paperback || Marilynne Robinson || Little, Brown Book Group
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
Almost English
the heart-breaking Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of The Exhibitionist
2024 || Paperback || Charlotte Mendelson || Pan Macmillan
Longlisted for both the Man Booker and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Charlotte Mendelson’s Almost English is an extraordinary, warm and funny novel about family, food and identity.