Inkräktaren
10 best books like Inkräktaren (Håkan Östlundh): Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Unnatural Exposure, Krabat, The Reluctant Empress, All Men Are Mortal, Force Of Circumstance, Nightblind, Rupture, Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary, Book of the Dead
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
ISBN | 0060825197 |
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking...
Author | Patricia Cornwell |
ISBN | 0751530492 |
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Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That's what the panicked public thinks, thanks...
Author | Otfried Preußler |
ISBN | 3522144104 |
Krabat - das ist ein 14jähriger Waisenjunge, im Großraum Lausitz/Dresden, im 17.Jahrhundert, der ein Bettlerleben führt. Eines Tages sucht er sein Glück bei einem Müllermeister, der ihn zu sich lockt und als Geselle anstellt. Sofort stellt sich heraus, dass mehr hinter dem "Meister" stecken...
Author | Brigitte Hamann |
ISBN | 3548354793 |
She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and touching, curiously modern personality,...
Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
ISBN | 0393308456 |
When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his memory her performances will live forever. But, as he recounts the story of his immortal existence over more than six centuries, as she learns of his involvement...
Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
ISBN | 0140027726 |
Cимона де Бовуар – одна из самых известных французских писательниц и самых ярких «феминисток» XX века. Жан Поль Сартр, Альбер Камю, Андре Жид, Жан Жене, Борис...
Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village on the northernmost tip of Iceland, accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a local policeman, whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community...
1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the couples may not...
Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary
Author | Traudl Junge |
ISBN | 1559707569 |
It was quite unexpected for me that Traudl Junge’s memoirs proved to be so fascinating. She was a secretary of Adolf Hitler from 1942 to his last day in the bunker in Berlin on April 30, 1945. Traudl wrote her memoirs in 1947, consequently only two years after Hitler’s death and her own narrow escape...
Author | Patricia Cornwell |
ISBN | 0399153934 |
Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C., to launch a private forensics lab, Scarpetta is asked to consult on the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, whose mutilated body was found in Rome. Contradictory evidence leaves Scarpetta, the Italian carabinieri and Scarpetta's lover, forensic psychologist...
Wenn du geredet hättest, Desdemona: Ungehaltene Reden ungehaltener Frauen
Author | Christine Brückner |
ISBN | 3455003664 |
Christine Brückner, die mit ihren Poenichen-Romanen Fontanes Spuren folgte und zu literarischen Bestsellerehren kam, ist ungehalten. Es sind so viele berühmte Reden berühmter Männer bekannt. Hatten Frauen denn nichts zu sagen? Oder wurde nur einfach nicht überliefert, was sie zu sagen...
Mit diesem Werk, dem die höchste literarische Auszeichnung Frankreichs, der Prix Goncourt, zugesprochen wurde, schrieb Simone de Beauvoir den Schlüsselroman der französischen Linksintellektuellen. Er ist zugleich politisches Tagebuch und faszinierender Frauenroman, der private Schicksale...
In den besten Jahren (Beauvoir: Memoiren 2)
Simone de Beauvoir was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, political and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including "She Came to Stay" and "The Mandarins", and for her 1949 treatise...
Author | Patricia Cornwell |
ISBN | 0425175405 |
An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway....
Author | Dieter Zimmer |
ISBN | 3625209667 |
Leipziger Jung flieht in den Fünfzigerjahren mit seiner Mutter über Berlin nach Westdeutschland. Die Erzählung schildert seine Jugendjahre bis in die Pubertät. Während die Mutter hart arbeitet, lernt der Held seine wechselnden Wohnorte Westberlin, Baden-Baden und Hannover in der Wirtschaftswunderzeit...
Stufen. Ausgewählte Gedichte
Author | Hermann Hesse |
ISBN | 3518013424 |
Diese Gedichtauswahl, vom Autor ein Jahr vor seinem Tode besorgt, ist letztgültig. Sie umfaßt etwa ein Fünftel seines gesamten lyrischen CEuvres. Über Hesses Gedichte schrieb Max Herrmann-Neiße: "Von der vielen Lyrik, die ich las, talentierter und hoffnungslos unbegabter, epigonenhafter,...
Ausgewählte Gedichte - Was mich je bewegte und erfreute
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His best known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society.
In...
Author | Sara Blaedel |
ISBN | 1605983500 |
Jealousy, obsession, and family honor have fatal consequences for an immigrant community on the fringes of seemingly idyllic Copenhagen society
It was clearly no ordinary drowning. Inspector Louise Rick is immediately called out to Holbraek Fjord when a young immigrant girl is found in...