Guy Shennan, David Miiligan-Croft, Steve Myers, Lauren Bailey, Simone Fox, Mhairi Fleming, Anne Edmondson, Michaela Rogers, Jennifer Cooper, Emily Weygang...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE, TOWN & COUNTRY, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, CRIMEREADS, DOCUMENT JOURNAL, AND WORDS WITHO...More info...
From the International Booker Prizewinning translator and Womens Prize finalist, a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. E...More info...
After a loss, a year in the country: four seasons to transform a garden and a self.In the city the notion of the hours of the day, of the passage of time, is lost. In the countryside that is impossible, our narrator tells...More info...
Although he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature four times, Stefan Zeromskis work is not as widely known outside Poland as it should be. Thus this elegant translation is most welcome . . . A beautiful, prescient story. ...More info...
From the International Booker Prizewinning translator and Womens Prize finalist, a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing. Eight translators arrive at a...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-Mar-2024, Hardback, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9781639731701)
Eight translators search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a Polish forest. From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Womens Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their searc...More info...
Guy Shennan, David Miiligan-Croft, Steve Myers, Lauren Bailey, Simone Fox, Mhairi Fleming, Anne Edmondson, Michaela Rogers, Jennifer Cooper, Emily Weygang...
This accessible textbook offers students and practitioners a comprehensive introduction to strengths-based approaches in Social Work and Social Care practice. Covering the theory and research in support of these approaches, and packed full of case st...More info...
Guy Shennan, David Miiligan-Croft, Steve Myers, Lauren Bailey, Simone Fox, Mhairi Fleming, Anne Edmondson, Michaela Rogers, Jennifer Cooper, Emily Weygang...
This accessible textbook offers students and practitioners a comprehensive introduction to strengths-based approaches in Social Work and Social Care practice. Covering the theory and research in support of these approaches, and packed full of case st...More info...
A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpas kneel at the edge, stand, exchange the odd word, waiting for him to move, to make a decision, to descend. In those minutes, the world opens up to Ka...More info...
How do you keep a friendship intact, when Alzheimers has stolen the common ground of language, memory, and experience, that unites you? In brief, sharply drawn moments, Sylvia Molloys Dislocations records the gradual loss...More info...
A searing tale of seduction and betrayal, both wryly comic and deeply serious Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend Intimate, irreverent, fast-paced and raw Sunday Times Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Sep-2022, Other book format, Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions, ISBN-13: 9781804270134)
In The Books of Jacob, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretical Jewi...More info...
An unruly cast of emotions come alive in this romping dreamworld, a place Maurice Sendaks Wild Things could call homeCuriosity, a lithe and floppy-eared creature, perches above the open world and gazes out with a zippy blend of hope,...More info...
Set in the mid-18th century, this sweeping novel follows a mysterious, Messianic religious leader as he, traversing the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, reinvents himself again and again and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian a...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Feb-2022, Other book format, Publisher: Riverhead Books, ISBN-13: 9780593087497)
Set in the mid-18th century, this sweeping novel follows a mysterious, Messianic religious leader as he, traversing the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, reinvents himself again and again and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian a...More info...
In The Books of Jacob, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretic...More info...
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From internationally bestselling Argentine author Pedro Mairal and Man Booker International-winning translator Jennifer Croft, the unforgettable story of two would-be lovers over the course of a single day. A searing tale of seduction an...More info...
(Pub. Date: 20-Jul-2021, Hardback, Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9781635577334)
Trapped in a loveless marriage, Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his 40s, finds the one thing that keeps him going is the woman from Uruguay whom he met at a conference and has been longing to see ever since. 60,000 first printing. ...More info...
The mountains of Argentina pulse with life in these disarming stories of people radically reinventing themselvesto find love and connection, to escape their pasts, to offer a way out of the banalities of sorrow and loss in the present....More info...
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words, and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood.Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Okla...More info...
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words, and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood.Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Okla...More info...
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words, and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood.Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Okla...More info...
A personal memoir tells the story of two sisters in Oklahoma, one who suffers from debilitating seizures, and the other who becomes an award-winning translator after she enters college at age 15. Illustrations. The coming of age story of an a...More info...
Beginning in New Testament times, there is a time-honoured tradition of forming new Christians in the essentials of faith: catechesis. This volume aims to uncover the riches of this tradition for all who teach and preach the faith today....More info...
2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, LITHUB AND ...More info...
