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Lucy Ellmann

LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of “happy couples”, Weapons of...

Author	Alfred Döblin
ISBN	3423002956

Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...

Author	Gunnhild Øyehaug
ISBN	0374181675

De Noorse Gunnhild Øyehaug is in eigen land al jaren een belangrijke literaire stem, maar breekt nu ook internationaal door. In haar lichtvoetige en precieze stijl schetst ze kwetsbare personages, die verstrikt raken in hun eigen tekortkomingen. Zo is er de vrouw die op de vooravond van haar negentigste...

Author	Jon Fosse
ISBN	1564785734

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include...

Author	Matias Faldbakken
ISBN	1501197525

In the tradition of modern classics The Dinner and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a grand European restaurant (that has seen better days) is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest.

In a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged...