Ramón Buenaventura Book order (chronological)

"In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love."--

Philip Roth war Träger der wichtigsten US-amerikanischen Literaturpreise und hoch geehrt von der internationalen Schriftstellervereinigung P. E. N. 1998 erhielt Philip Roth für ‹Amerikanisches Idyll› den Pulitzerpreis. Im gleichen Jahr wurde ihm im Weißen Haus die National Medal of Arts verliehen, und 2001 erhielt er die höchste Auszeichnung der American Academy of Arts and Letters, die Gold Medal, mit der unter anderem John Dos Passos, William Faulkner und Saul Bellow ausgezeichnet worden sind. Er hat zweimal den National Book Award und den National Book Critics Circle Award erhalten und dreimal den PEN/Faulkner Award und außerdem den PEN/Nabokov Award und den PEN/Saul Bellow Award. 2011 wurde ihm der Man Booker International Prize verliehen. Der 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, geborene Autor mit europäisch-jüdischem Hintergrund schrieb unermüdlich, schonungslos und in drastischer Sprache über seine Landsleute. Das erste Buch mit Short Storys erschien 1959. Die folgenden Romane und Erzählungen über die jüdische Mittelklasse der Nachkriegszeit, über ihre Beziehungen, Zwänge und Neurosen, lösten oft Skandale aus. Bis 1992 unterrichtete Roth an verschiedenen Universitäten. Liebe, Sexualität und Tod waren bis zuletzt die Themen seines Werks. Philip Roth ist 2018 gestorben.

History is being made and Miles Lord has a ringside seat. The people of Russia have voted to bring back the tsar, a ruler to be selected from the distant relatives of Nicholas II, who was murdered along with the rest of the Romanov family in 1918. Miles has been asked to run a background check on one of the candidates. But excitement turns to terror when Miles is nearly killed by gunmen. Suddenly, he is racing across continents with only a cryptic utterance by Rasputin, made at the time of the Romanov massacre, as his guide. The implications of this prophecy are earth-shattering - not only for the future tsar and mother Russia, but for Miles himself.

'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer. What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe. Roth decides to stop him, even if that means impersonating the impersonator. Operation Shylock is at once spy story, political thriller, meditation on identity and unfathomable journey through a volatile, frightening middle-east.