Mémoires de porc-épic
10 best books like Mémoires de porc-épic (Alain Mabanckou): More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales, The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay, Travels in the Scriptorium, Vuosisadan rakkaustarina, Returning to Reims, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un, Slutet, Auris
More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
| Author | Jen Campbell |
| ISBN | 1472106334 |
Customer (holding up a book): What’s this? The Secret Garden? Well, it’s not so secret now, is it, since they bloody well wrote a book about it!
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops was a Sunday Times bestseller, and could be found displayed on bookshop counters up and down the country....
The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0679643427 |
Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” and “The Purloined Letter”
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing...
| Author | Rebecca Sparrow |
| ISBN | 0375845704 |
Seventeen-year-old Rachel Hill is the girl most likely to succeed. And the girl most likely to have everything under control . . . that is, until her dad invites Nick McGowan, the cutest boy at school, to live with them. Rachel worries that this could only be a recipe for disaster, but her best friend Zoe...
Travels in the Scriptorium
| Author | Paul Auster |
| ISBN | 0805081453 |
A man pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors--in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel
An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances...
| Author | Märta Tikkanen |
| ISBN | 9513053571 |
Märta Tikkasen runokokoelma Vuosisadan rakkaustarina on koskettava vastine kirjailijapuoliso Henrik Tikkasen maineikkaalle tunnustusromaanille Mariankatu 26. Viha, rakkaus, lannistuminen ja kapina vuorottelevat tässä kipeässä ja ntensiivisessä runoelmassa perheestä, sukupuolten...
| Author | Didier Eribon |
| ISBN | 1584351233 |
On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sexual closet, my desire to assume and assert my homosexuality, coincided within my personal trajectory with my shutting myself up inside what I might call a class closet. -- from "Returning to Reims"
After...
Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
| Author | Małgorzata Rejmer |
| ISBN | 8380497457 |
Błoto słodsze niż miód to opowieść o kraju udręczonym terrorem Envera Hoxhy, dyktatora, który po zerwaniu sojuszy z Jugosławią, Związkiem Radzieckim i Chinami uwierzył, że Albania może stać się samowystarczalną twierdzą komunizmu. O ludziach z dnia na dzień skazywanych...
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
| Author | Anna Fifield |
| ISBN | 1541742486 |
The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.
Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and propaganda,...
Du är sjutton år gammal. Det är sommar och världen ser ut precis som vanligt. Men du vet vad som är på väg. Om en månad är vi alla borta.
Vad vill du göra den sista tiden? Vem vill du vara med när allt tar slut? Hur känns det att veta exakt vilket klockslag du ska dö? Och vad spelar ett liv mer...
| Author | Vincent Kliesch |
| ISBN | 3426307189 |
Die kleinste Abweichung im Klang einer Stimme genügt dem berühmten forensischen Phonetiker Matthias Hegel, um Wahrheit von Lüge zu unterscheiden. Zahlreiche Kriminelle konnten mit seiner Hilfe bereits überführt werden. Hat er nun selbst gelogen? Allzu freimütig scheint sein Geständnis,...
