Ettore Capriolo Boeken

'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe- lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...

Uncle Petros is a family joke - an ageing recluse in a suburb of Athens, playing chess and gardening. His young nephew soon discovers his uncle was once a celebrated mathematician who staked all on solving the problem of Goldbach's Conjecture. schovat popis

In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and create a new kind of family.

Testi successivi alla raccolta dei Quarantanove Racconti pubblicati in volumi e riviste, pubblicati originariamente come "Part II" e "Part III" de "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway"

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces P. D. James's courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way (The New York Times).

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times.

Een gepensioneerde agent van de Britse geheime dienst raakt tegen wil en dank betrokken bij regionale conflicten in de voormalige Sovjet-Unie.

The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs—the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: He has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them—a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .

A 300 year old spaceship is found in the South Pacific.

A twentieth-century adventure that will plunge you into the heart of Africa with three intrepid adventurers, in a desperate bid to find the fabulous diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj. In it you will encounter the Kigani cannibals, flaming volcanoes, feroc

'Een geweldig en troostrijk boek. Ik ken geen mooier boek over een stad.' - Connie Palmen in DWDD Ernest Hemingway verhuisde in 1921 met zijn vrouw Hadley naar Parijs. De lichtstad, waar hij kennismaakte met illustere persoonlijkheden als Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald en Ezra Pound, zou van grote invloed zijn op zijn schrijverschap. In Parijs is een feest brengt Hemingway de uitbundige stemming van de stad na de Eerste Wereldoorlog op briljante wijze tot leven. In 1964 verscheen dit boek voor het eerst, onder de titel A Moveable Feast. Na de aanslagen van november 2015 werd het opnieuw een bestseller in Frankrijk, in het bijzonder vanwege de ode aan de vitaliteit en veerkracht van Parijs. Deze nieuwe vertaling bevat niet eerder gepubliceerd materiaal, waaronder een hoofdstuk over het einde van Hemingways eerste huwelijk. 'Dit is Hemingway op zijn best. Niemand heeft ooit zo goed geschreven over Parijs in de jaren twintig van de twintigste eeuw als Hemingway.' - The New York Times