Alex Capus: 9 books

Decades after westward expansion swept over it, settled it, and domesticated it, the Wild West remains a potent source of American myth and mystery. But the actual history, and the traces of it that remain, are at least as interesting as the fiction, and in Skidoo, writer and novelist Alex Capus takes...

Alex Capus's novels have been runaway best-sellers in Germany, and his novel Leon and Louise received widespread critical acclaim on its English publication in 2012.A Price to Pay, the fourth of Capus's novels to be published in English, tells the interwoven stories of three disparate figures from...

UN AUTORE AMATO IN TUTTO IL MONDO. SUBITO IN CLASSIFICA OLTRE 100.00 COPIE «Alex Capus è un brillante scrittore e intreccia le storie di tre vite come in un'opera d'arte.» Die Zeit «Il suo romanzo evoca l'affascinante atmosfera delle vecchie cartoline e conduce i lettori in...

With brilliantly vivid irony, a mosaic of voices tells the true story of Switzerland's most notorious bank robbers: Kurt Sandweg and Waldemar Velte. As 1933 draws to a close, the pair arrive in Basel from Wuppertal, Germany. Rebels on the run, they are searching for an escape from the confines of...

Max has been married to Tina for twenty-five years. She is the love of his life, but now he must come to terms with the fact that she is to spend a year away on a work assignment—away, for the first time, from their home, their children and their life together. Her absence leaves him feeling like...

Normandia, 1918. Léon e Louise amano pedalare controvento verso l'oceano. Verso quel piccolo antro tra gli scogli sferzati dalle correnti, il loro rifugio, il loro nido. Lì, di fronte alla vastità dell'orizzonte, tutto è possibile. È possibile amarsi, con la spensieratezza e l'intensità dei...

"Se è vero che la nostalgia l’hanno inventata gli svizzeri, che ci fa un giovane scrittore nato nella piccola e ordinata Olten, Canton Soletta, fra ciò che rimane delle città fantasma del selvaggio West? Forse cerca le storie stralunate che solo in quel mondo sconfinato e fantastico potevano...

A little known backwater of the history of the Great War is vividly rendered by a great story-teller - the central characters and events of this book are based on fact, but their surroundings and experiences are richly drawn from the author's imagination and detailed research.

Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly...