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After the War by Herve Le Corre
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: MacLehose Press Editions
1950's Bordeaux. Even now, the Second World War is never far from people's memories, particularly in a city where the scars of collaboration and resistance are more keenly felt than ever. But another war has already begun. A war without a name, far away across the sea, in Algeria, where young men are se ...Show more
After the Winter by Guadalupe Nettel
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Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions
A shy young Mexican woman moves to Paris to study literature. Cecilia has few friends, and a morbid fascination with watching the funerals taking place in the cemetery outside her apartment. She suddenly strikes up a close platonic relationship with her neighbour, a sickly young man who shares her inter ...Show more
An Oblique Place by Frank Perry (Translator); Caterina Pascual Söderbaum
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Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
"Caterina Pascual Söderbaum has left a major European literary work of art as her legacy" STEVE SEM-SANDBERG, author of Emperor of Lies The Oblique Place is a captivating journey of the imagination, a prize-winning novel that probes the ruinous legacies of Fascist Europe in the twentieth century. T ...Show more
Belladonna by Dasa Drndic
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Category: No Category | Series: MacLehose Press Editions
Andreas Ban is a writer and a psychologist, an intellectual proper, full of empathy, but his world has been falling apart for years. When he retires with a miserable pension and finds out that he is ill, he gains a new perspective on the debris of his life and the lives of his friends. In defying illnes ...Show more
One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig; Jamie Bulloch (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
"A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace" John Boyne, author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS A contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of Germany's best-known con ...Show more
One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig
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Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions | Reading Level: very good
A contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths ? the first novel of Germany's best-known contemporary playwright One clear ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of d ...Show more
The Awkward Squad by Sophie Hénaff
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
A new crime series starring Commissaire Anne Capestan, a brilliant but disgraced police officer placed in charge of a team of department misfits to investigate decades-old unsolved crimes. Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing "one bullet too many," Anne Capestan is expecting ...Show more
The Awkward Squad by Sophie Henaff
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: MacLehose Press Editions
Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing "one bullet too many", Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to H.Q. to learn her fate. Instead, she is surprised to be told that she is to head up a new police squad, working on solving old cold cases. Though relived to ...Show more
The House with the Stained-Glass Window by Zanna Sloniowska
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Category: Fiction | Series: Maclehose Press Editions
"The House with the Stained-Glass Window is remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century, at once personal and political, a novel of life and survival across the ages" PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street In 1989, Marianna, the beautiful star ...Show more
The House with the Stained-Glass Window by Zanna Sloniowska; Antonia Lloyd Jones (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
Amid the turbulence of 20th century Lviv, meet four generations of women from the same fractious family, living beneath one roof and each striving to find their way across the decades of upheaval in an ever-shifting city. First there is Great-Granma, tiny and terrifying, shaped by a life of exile, hards ...Show more
The Impostor by Javier Cercas
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Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions
The Impostor, by the admired Spanish writer Javier Cercas, is a true story that is nevertheless packed with fiction - fiction created by its main character, Enric Marco. Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain's ...Show more
The President's Gardens by Muhsin Al-Ramli; Luke Leafgren (translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions | Reading Level: very good
One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite-Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting" Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent F ...Show more