nami - Fiction & Literature 2

Set in fictional Fort Angus, Maine, Show Me Good Land tells the story of a small rural town struggling with poverty and decay after decades of prosperity. Loosely linked through a grisly murder, its……続きを見る

Rebellion and war collide in Iron Council, the award-winning steampunk novel from acclaimed author China Miéville. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy ci……続きを見る

A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out l……続きを見る

There it was, my birthday cake, a two-layer dream leaning ever so slightly to the left with seven pink candles sitting in a mass of swirled icing. I leaned over the candles, closed my eyes and pictu……続きを見る

»Wir hatten nur ein Leben, es war zu kurz für alles, was wir von ihm erwarteten.« Sie wollten vernünftig lieben, mit Maß und Respekt. Leidenschaftlich und doch voller Achtung für die Freiheit des an……続きを見る

I could not wait for my mother to see the play. She would be proud of having me for a daughter. People would tell her that she should take me to Hollywood, that I had natural talent. Then I would be……続きを見る

My mother named me Ama Ganugogv. It meant spring in Cherokee. Spring is the season for new beginnings and that is what I was to my mother. I symbolized her fresh start in the white world far away fr……続きを見る

There isn't much crime in Stoneleigh, Massachusetts. It's a college town, a mountain getaway for the quietly rich, where the average burglar alarm is set off by foraging wildlife. So when Edward Inm……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel of a twenty-year-old literature student in 1970 who’s about to discover the liberating possibilities and haunting conseque……続きを見る

Winner of the August Derleth award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Perdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller, and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the world of Bas-L……続きを見る

Stephen Amidon's Human Capital is a gripping novel of new money, old jealousies, and the secret lives of parents and children in the suburbs. Now a major motion picture! It's the spring of 2001. Dre……続きを見る

While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars ……続きを見る

♥All Three Books in the Gypsy Fairy Tale Series for Just 0.99♥ Are You Ready for the Magic? Are You Ready for the Fairy Tale? Now for just 0.99 you can enjoy all three novellas in the Gypsy Fairy Ta……続きを見る

NOW AN ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral f……続きを見る

See how the fairy tale ends... Forever... Harmony has made her choice. It’s Kieran that she loves, it’s always been him, but to choose Kieran is to lose Alec forever. Is that too much to sacrifice? ……続きを見る

Let My Songs Be... is a collection of the songs of music maestro, Padma Bhushan Dr. Bhupen Hazarika translated from Assamese and Hindi into English poetry. The collection comprises of 41 select song……続きを見る

From the author of the haunting Spiritus Series, comes an epic, mesmerizing novel of witchcraft and revenge. Once again, she sweeps readers away with her spellbinding storytelling and the crafting o……続きを見る

A tastefully risqué novel that is provoking and not for the faint of heart… Tattered Ink is a gripping, engaging, non-stop intoxicating novel about devastating disgraces. The relentless ficti……続きを見る

A woman doesn’t have to speak what she’ll do all of the time; she’s is too crafty for that... she’ll merely show you. Sean goes full circle before he gets the full understanding of how low down and ……続きを見る

Dois trabalhadores da Estação de Energia Nuclear de Chernobyl são afetados drasticamente pelo desastre da usina de 1986, mudando o rumo de suas vidas para sempre.  Baseado……続きを見る

There Is No One Else is a story of love, betrayal, deceit, prejudice and tragedy. Set in Budapest, Hungary, the play tells the story of Istvan and Arabella Geza with World War II, the 1956 Uprising,……続きを見る

Full of poetry and songs, Conclave follows the simple everyday events of two neighboring families as they deal with life’s struggles and the workings of their faith. This story tracks their ordinary……続きを見る

Growing up in the 1960s on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world. But she had her family. A family so close and loving that Natalie believe……続きを見る

Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of the I……続きを見る

Award-winning author China Miéville began his astounding career with King Ratーnow in a new Tor Essentials editionーa mix of a young man's search for identity with a pulse-pounding story of revenge ……続きを見る

With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Miéville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heig……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 2,3, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Institut für Jugendbuchforschung), Veranstaltung: Die Wende 1……続きを見る

For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling aut……続きを見る

The multi-award-winning China Miéville has been called 'the equal of David Mitchell or Zadie Smith' (Scotland on Sunday), a writer whose 'inventiveness and precision is awesome' (Independent), and w……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität Bielefeld, Veranstaltung: Lateinische Reisegedichte, 9 Quellen……続きを見る