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by Vigdis Hjorth
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
A controversial bestseller from one of Norway's most intelligent and highly-regarded novelists
When a dispute over her parents’ will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer...
Hara Hotel
A Tale of Syrian Refugees in Greece
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A first-hand account of a Greek refugee camp—and the stories of the refugees staying there
Syrian Kurd Juwan Azad left his home and family in Damascus in 2011 to flee military service under the al-Assad regime. After several troubled years as a refugee in Turkey, he arrived in Greece by sea,...
Benjamin and Brecht
The Story of a Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A fascinating account of the friendship between two of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century
Germany in the mid 1920s, a place and time of looming turmoil, brought together Walter Benjamin—acclaimed critic and extraordinary literary theorist—and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth...
Drought
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A brilliant novel about memory, love, and the clash between the old world and the new, set in 1950s Spain
“He turned his back on the old man to mourn in silence this unnecessary death and his part in it; but the sight of the coffin brought anger instead ...”
In 1957, a burned-out...
by Christine Lamer
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Fille de John Corby, magnat des télécommunications américaines et de Madeleine Moulin, propriétaire de la chaîne hôtelière Perrier-Palace, Tiffany est déterminée à se faire une place comme auteur-compositeur-interprète de jazz. Après un départ fulgurant avec une première chanson et la...
by Christine Lamer
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Fille adoptive de Kateri, Angélique rêve d'être la nouvelle Chanel. Assoiffée de réussite, elle ne tarde pas à devenir une figure de proue de la haute couture. Triomphes et revers de fortune jalonnent le parcours glamour de la designer avant qu'elle ne rencontre l'homme de sa vie. Le bonheur...
by Christine Lamer
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Diplômée de l'Institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du Québec, Simone Bouquet voit grand et rêve d'ouvrir un jour son restaurant gastronomique à Montréal. Poussée par son caractère aussi bouillant que l'eau de cuisson, ses idées tranchantes comme une lame de couteau et son narcissisme plus...
Samuel Beckett
Anatomy of a Literary Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett’s work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett’s reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated. Reintroducing the historical into the heart of this body of work, Casanova...
American Breakdown
The Trump Years and How They Befell Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there
Donald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential...
The Heart of the Race
Black Women's Lives in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in Britain
The Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s place in that history, documenting their day-to-day...
A Massacre in Mexico
The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican students
On September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were en route to a protest when intercepted by local police. A confrontation ensued. Come the morning, the students were nowhere...
Latinx
The New Force in American Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics
“Latinx” (pronounced “La-teen-ex”) is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the largest and fastest growing minorities in the United States, accounting for 17 percent of the country. Over 58 million Americans belong to...
by Ernesto Laclau
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A philosophical and political exploration of the construction of popular identities
In this highly original and influential work, Ernesto Laclau focuses on the construction of popular identities and how “the people” emerge as a collective actor. Skilfully combining theoretical analysis...
Everything to Nothing
The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The poets’ Great War: violence, revolution and modernism
The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world.
This tumult, sometimes referred to as ‘the literary war’, saw an extraordinary...