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The Tsar's Dwarf
A novel about the aberration and endurance of the human condition translated by Tiina Nunnally. Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great because he is taken by her freakishness and intellect. Against her will Peter takes her to St. Petersburg where she becomes a jester in his court, Forced to live a life that both compels and repels her, she gives in to the attentions of the Tsar’s favorite dwarf, Lukas and carves out an existence for herself amidst the squalor and lice-ridden life of dwarfs in early 18th century. Disaster eventually strikes in the shape of a priest who wants to “save” her.
The East End
"Every page is filled with wise insights about social class and the human heart." —Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award finalist Corey Halpern, a local high schooler, grew up working class in the Hamptons and is desperate to leave his home-town and start anew somewhere else. The summer before college, he finds escapism in sneaking into neighboring mansions and pocketing small items. One night just before Memorial Day weekend, he breaks into the wrong home at the wrong time: the Sheffield estate, where he and his mother, Gina, work. Under the cover of darkness, Leo Sheffield, patriarch and billionaire CEO, arrives unexpectedly with a companion. After a shocking poolside accident, Leo is desperate to cover up what happened before his family and friends arrive for the holiday weekend. Unfortunately for him, Corey saw everything, as did other eyes in the shadows. Secrecy, obsession and desperation dictate each character's path in this spectacular debut. With an ending as explosive as the Memorial Day fireworks on the island, The East End is an unforgettable debut about class, family secrets, and the desire to belong.
Contemporary World Fiction
This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contem...
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe
With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post--World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. Aimed at a general readership and guided by the idea of constructing bridges across national cultures, this book maps for English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity of Jewish writers and writing that has marked a revitalization of Jewish culture in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.
A Book of European Writers
A Book of European Writers A-Z By Country Published on June 12, 2014 in USA.
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, body culture and magazines. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: the pre-war and wartime responses to international developments, the new cultural institutions, sexual politics, the impact of refugees and the new start after the war.
Kunstværket
Denne bog belyser Danmarkshistoriens vigtigste personopgør: konflikten mellem Christian IV og Tycho Brahe. Det har altid været en gåde, hvad der fik astronomen til at forlade Danmark og hvad der forårsagede hans pludselige død i Prag. Svaret ligger gemt i gamle bøger og vil her blive fremlagt. Med udgangspunkt i den høje kviksølvkoncentration, som specialister har påvist i skæg og hår fra graven, redegøres der for den skjulte sammenhæng mellem forekomsten af det giftige tungmetal, den afdødes ærkefjende Mercurius, planeten Merkur, gudernes budbringer, hermetismens grundlægger og mordet på en sagnkonge. Ifølge eget udsagn blev Hamlets far forgivet med en helvedessaft, der jager gennem kroppens porte og gyder, som var den kviksølv. Øresundskrigen var et renæssancedrama med kosmologiske dimensioner, for i snæver bane omkring den unge solkonge kredsede der en ånd med uovertruffen kunstnerisk begavelse.
Som en springende hval
I sin sjette erindringsbog, Som en springende hval, kommer Johannes Møllehave vidt omkring. Han fortæller blandt meget andet om familien og ikke mindst børnebørnene, om Prag og Reykjavik, om Dostojevskij og Shakespeare, om døde venner og om sin egen store hjerteoperation. "Ingen i dette land bruger den store kunst, de store romaner, den store lyrik på så selvfølgelig, forstandig og inciterende vis som dette forunderlige væsen, Johannes Møllehave kaldet." - Ulrik Høy, Weekendavisen "En formidabel erindringsbog ... Det er næsten en forbrydelse at sluge den i et stræk, så meget humor, kærlighed og alvor er der i den!" - Holger Ruppert, B.T. "Man burde næsten overveje, om ikke lægerne ved siden af medikamenterne skulle ordinere Møllehave som pligtlæsning til enhver, der har et mørkt syn på livet." - Mikkel Wold, Information
The Seer
For many years Lars Muhl was a very successful singer songwriter, along with his interest in music he studied the world's religions and esoterica. Out of the blue in 1996 he was struck by an unexplained illness, which neither doctors nor alternative therapists could diagnose. For three years he was confined to his bed, unable to move. Through a friend, Lars was put in touch with the Seer who, via telephone brought him 'back to life'. The Seer is a human being who is capable of not only diagnosing and curing people, no matter where they are, on the globe, but is also able to read The Book of Life, where the destiny of mankind is recorded. Join Lars at the start of this spellbinding cosmic adventure as he journey's to southern France to meet the Seer and begin his lifelong spiritual and philosophical quest to understand the interconnectedness of the cosmos and how past, present and future become one. The Seer is the first book in the Grail Trilogy otherwise known as The O Manuscript.
