Upon its publication in Germany in 1983, this author's book stirred both critical acclaim and consternation, attracting a wide readership. He finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture, in personal and institutional settings; his book is both a history of the impulse and an investigation of its role today, among those whose earlier hopes for social change have crumbled and faded away.
Als De tuin der lusten, het beroemde schilderij van Jeroen Bosch, in het Prado-museum van Madrid door een agressieve bezoeker wordt beschadigd en het doek als gevolg daarvan hersteld moet worden, ontdekt restaurateur Michael Keie in de diepere kleurlagen van het schilderij een reeks geheime tekens. Na deze intrigerende ontdekking wordt hij voortdurend op de hielen gezeten door een vrouw die beweert psychologe te zijn. Heeft zij het gemunt op de negatieven van het röntgenonderzoek? En welke betekenis hebben de zeldzame symbolen? De pogingen van Keie dit raadsel van het Prado op te lossen, voeren al snel terug naar de oorsprong van het schilderij, naar het 's Hertogenbosch van 1510, waar de Inquisitie jacht maakt op elke mogelijke vorm van ketterij... Oorspronkelijke Nederlandse titel: Het geheim van Jeroen Bosch
Presents an account of the author's journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. This work provides a study of societies - British Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica - examining their common heritage of colonialism and slavery.
Geschiedenis van de Spaanse Burgeroorlog (1936-1939) met veel aandacht voor de sociale, politieke, militaire en economische aspecten van dit conflict.
'According to Plato, fools do not strive for the beautiful and the good, for divine bliss, because they are satisfied with themselves. The wise do not strive for it either because they already have those things. Only the people in between, half-way between fools and the wise, you and I and all the others waiting patiently here in a traffic jam for the next green light, are vulnerable to the arrow of Eros.' On Love and Death is a witty and inspiring meditation on the erotic link between the two great forces of human existence. Patrick S|skind provocatively draws on scenes as contemporary as a young couple having oral sex while stuck in traffic, as literary as Thomas Mann's discovery of forbidden love in his seventies, and as mythical as the stirring tales of death conquered through love in the narratives of Orpheus and Jesus.
Persoonlijk relaas over de depressie van de schrijver, afgewisseld met meer algemene beschouwingen over deze aandoening.
In de winter van 1953 is de liefste wens van puber Anthony Amedeo een sjabloonkit om, net als andere kinderen in zijn buurt, het raam van zijn slaapkamer te versieren. In plaats daarvan krijgt hij een heel ander kerscadeautje: het gezin van zijn oom Malcolm.Malcolm zit in de gevangenis, en Anthony's tante Floria en zijn nichtjes Bianca en Belinda (een tweeling) trekken bij hem en zijn ouders in. Ineens een kamer delen met meisjes is een hele toer, ook al is Anthony op de tweeling gesteld en zijn zij allebei hopeloos verliefd op hem. De ware verandering in zijn leven komt echter op de avond waarop hij iets gruwelijks laat gebeuren. Niet alleen zijn eigen leven, maar ook dat van zijn familieleden verandert daardoor voorgoed. Dagelijkse zonden omspant drie generaties en voert ons van de Bronx in de jaren vijftig naar het Brooklyn van 1999.
Een Amerikaanse schrijver begint een nieuw leven als hotelmanager op Hawaiï en observeert de levens van de hotelgasten en personeelsleden.
Een Zuid-Amerikaanse leraar filosofie, die de drugsmafia aanklaagt in de krant, vindt regelmatig als afschrikmiddel een lijk in zijn tuin.
Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions. This work presents history of the camp: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost.
At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other taking the long way round. He travels by a dilapidated taxi, smoke-filled bus, bicycle and even a cruise-liner. This eventful tour aims to evoke the essence of Mediterranean life.
Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. Her past has been hardscrabble. Then one November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day. Is this delusion, a product of her occasional drug use, or a true calling to God? Gradually word spreads, and thousands converge upon the already troubled town. For Tom Cross, an embittered logger who's been out of work since his son was paralyzed in a terrible accident, the possibility that Ann's visions are real offers a last chance for him and his son. As Father Collins searches both his own soul and Ann's; as Carolyn struggles with her less than admirable intentions; as Tom alternates between despair and hope; OUR LADY OF THE FOREST combines suspense, grit and humour in a story of faith at a contemporary crossroad.
Een man trekt in 1838 naar New Hampshire met een zestienjarig meisje dat hij met pokeren won.
The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win their "love." Alice Miller writes, "When I used the word 'gifted' in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb.... Without this 'gift' offered us by nature, we would not have survived." But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.
One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Best Books by WomenErika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student and ladies' man Walter Klemmer.With Walter as her student, Erika spirals out of control, consumed by the ecstasy of self-destruction. A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, The Piano Teacher, first published in 1983, is Elfreide Jelinek's Masterpiece.Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature in 2004 for her 'musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power.The Piano Teacher was adapted into an internationally successful film by Michael Haneke, which won three major prizes at Cannes, including the Grand Prize and Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert.
Can friendship survive in a divided world? Written on the eve of the Holocaust as a series of letters between a Jew in America and his German friend, Kressmann Taylor's classic novel is a haunting tale of a society poisoned by Nazism.First published in 1938, Address Unknown met with immediate success in English but was banned in Europe by the Nazis. Tragically prescient about what was to come, it was one of the earliest works of fiction to warn against the growing dangers of fascism and antisemitism in Europe. It became an international bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty languages.A novel of enduring impact with a memorable sting in its tail, Address Unknown stands as a powerful reminder of the dangers posed by the rhetoric of intolerance.
Het wonderlijke levensverhaal van een sensuele, voluptueuze joodse vrouw in Jeruzalem tussen 1948 en de jaren '90.
In dit boeiende boek laat de auteur het jaar 1688 wereldwijd herleven. In zeven delen, onderverdeeld in diverse hoofdstukken, worden de belangrijkste gebeurtenissen en ontwikkelingen beschreven die in en buiten Europa plaatsvonden. Dank zij de zeevaart, enkele missionarissen en avonturiers namen wij kennis van andere werelddelen en volken met hun cultuur en religie. Deze ontdekkingen hadden positieve en negatieve gevolgen, zoals handelscontacten, overheersing en de slavenhandel. Verwikkelingen aan Europese en Aziatische hoven drukken hun stempel op de tijd. De tweede helft van de zeventiende eeuw was ook de tijd van grote onderzoekers, wetenschappers en literatoren. De auteur kon putten uit authentiek bronnenmateriaal. Met enkele illustraties in zwart/wit. Een uitgebreid overzicht van geraadpleegde bronnen en verdere literatuur biedt de in geschiedenis geïnteresseerde lezer voldoende mogelijkheid om zijn kennis uit te breiden. Het boek eindigt met een personen- en zakenregister. (Biblion recensie, P. Brugmans-Peters) (first published January 3rd 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company)
An exploration of the overwhelming complexity of Afghan politics, this title explains how it came in to being, how it is sustained and how Osama bin Laden has risen to such a figure of absolute power.
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.
Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge. "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord is the second novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1992.
This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelegia's fiancé is fighting the Italian army ...
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'Gedumpt' vertelt opnieuw het verhaal van een moord op een jonge vrouw: Betty Jean Scales. Het is het adembenemende relaas van twee mannen, een schrijver en een detective, in hun hongerige zoektocht naar gerechtigheid. CPNB Maand van het spannende boek 1998.
America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring effect on her son - he spent his teens and early adult years as a wino, petty burglar and derelict. Only later, through his obsession with crime fiction, triggered by his mother's murder, did Ellroy begin to delve into his past. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old killing. The result is one of the few classics of crime non- fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip to America's underbelly and one man's tortured soul.
Islamic Excursion among the Converted People
A Starthing And Revelatory Addition To The Naipaul Canon, This Book Confirms The Author`S Reputation As A Masterful Observer, A `Finder-Out` Of Stories, As Well As A Magnificent Teller Of Them.
Theologische beschouwing over menselijke gevoelens van ontoereikendheid en schuld, door de Amerikaanse rabbijn.
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In denkbeeldige herinneringen vertelt de auteur over ontmoetingen en gebeurtenissen in zijn leven, in zijn huwelijk en in zijn werk als schrijver.
Reisverslag van de 5 jaar durende zeereis die de Britse wetenschapper Charles Darwin vanaf 1831 maakte naar Zuid-Amerika, Afrika, Australië en eilanden in de Stille en Indische Oceaan.
Combining the acute observation of a nineteenth-century missionary, and the wit of a Monty Python player, Redmond O'Hanlon is famous for his adventurous travel. His new challenge is the Congo, the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.
Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, Paul Theroux travelled the length of North and South America, to his destination in Patagonia. In this book he vividly evokes the contrasts of his journey.
Van de Rio Negro naar Buenos Aires - Charles Darwin Goedenavond, mrs. Thys - Jan Brokken Drie maanden in de West - W. Wijnaendts Francken-Syserinck Paaseiland: voorbij de branding van Rapa Nui - Paul Theroux Kongo - Redmond O'Hanlon Filfla - Boudewijn Büch Het dorp van Ratu Dinges - Johnny Frisbie Bot Pippel - Linda Polman De Kakaanse seismograaf - Benno Barnard
One of the world's premier travel writers launches his most exotic and tantalizing adventure yet, as he kayaks the shimmering Pacific, exploring the islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these happy isles.
Verslag van een reis van vier maanden over de Orinoco naar het hart van het Amazonegebied.
Paul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and, said the Sunday Times, 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure . . . 'After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result is absolutely riveting reading. 'Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast and I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly and honestly' - Anthony Burgess in the Observer. 'Filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations and laments' - The New York Times.
Deels autobiografisch relaas over het leven van een Amerikaan vanaf zijn vijftiende jaar tot aan de nadering van de middelbare leeftijd.
Describes the author's travels by train in every province of the People's Republic of China.
Waarom zou een Israëlische jood zich voordoen als een Arabier? Het was volgens mij (de schrijver) de beste manier om in de huid van een Palestijn te kruipen.` Joram Binoer stak zijn licht op in de Gazastrook, in de vluchtelingenkampen op de Westoever en in het centrum van Tel Aviv. Een gewaagde onderneming.
An Account of a Journey Made In 1983 to the Mountains of Batu Tiban with James Fenton "Ye Gods, old man--don't do it!" you're bound to shriek on page 1 of this hilarious travelogue, on which the author lists the hazards that may befall him--vipers, cholera, crocs, ticks, tuberculosis, malaria, rabies, and 1,700 types of parasitic worms among them. After all, portly, over-the-hill London Times literary reviewer Redmond O'Hanlon hasn't done anything more aerobic than flip the pages of a book for decades; he wasn't even a Boy Scout. It's hardly reassuring that his colleague, poet James Fenton--who had the big idea to trek in Borneo--was a Boy Scout. He hated it, and besides, aged, balding Fenton, whom O'Hanlon describes as rather worm-like, sounds like he's a likely lunch for a swooping black eagle. But on they trod--with the much-needed help of three Iban natives and an unseen, though oft-quoted river god--through jungle, across rivers whose height may rise seven feet overnight, and via native villages (where they often have late-night parties), with one goal in mind: seeing the fabled Borneo rhino. Fenton is nearly swept away in a whirlpool, they subsist on jungle-worm gruel, and ripping off sucking leeches is a near-daily occurrence, but cultural and natural insights and adventures abound in this rip-roaringly funny and deftly written travelogue that will have you chortling out loud. --Melissa Rossi
The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending traces the life of a seemingly ordinary woman with an extraordinary disdain for wisdom in this “marvelous literary epiphany” (The New York Times Book Review). In this wonderfully provocative novel, Barnes follows Jean Serjeant from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, confronting readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed). Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, Staring at the Sun is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.
Günter Wallraffs Erfahrungsbericht als Türke Ali wurde mit einer deutschsprachigen Auflage von über 4 Millionen und Übersetzungen in mehr als 30 Ländern zu einem sensationellen Bucherfolg mit "durchschlagender politischer Wirkung" (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Elf Jahre nach seinem ersten Versuch erlebte Wallraff 1984 die bundesdeutsche Realität aus einer Perspektive, die für Deutsche sonst unzugänglich ist, und machte Erfahrungen, die eher an das südafrikanische Apartheidsregime erinnern als an den vielgerühmten demokratischen Rechtsstaat. In seiner Rolle als Türke Ali Levent arbeitete er unter anderem bei McDonald's, als Leiharbeiter auf einer Großbaustelle und als Versuchskaninchen bei einem Medikamentenversuch. Er erlebte, wie Türken als "der letzte Dreck" behandelt werden, gebraucht als "Lückenbüßer" der Wirtschaft und als Billigarbeitskräfte für gefährlichste Arbeiten. Trotz gesundheitlicher Schäden und Demütigungen fand Wallraff auch Positives: die Solidarität und Freundschaft seiner Kollegen. Anders als während seiner Zeit in der BILD-Redaktion konnte er ein Stück seiner Identität bewahren, auch wenn er diese nicht offenbaren durfte. Die Veröffentlichung seiner Erfahrungen in dem Buch Ganz unten (Oktober 1985) führte zu einem enormen Echo in Medien, die das Thema Leiharbeit aufgriffen und Druck auf Politiker und Unternehmer ausübten. In Nordrhein-Westfalen wurden zahlreiche illegale Leiharbeitsfirmen von der Staatsanwaltschaf
Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, is endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated never to be believed. After ten years of brutal war, Troy has fallen to the Greek army, and Cassandra is now a prisoner of war, shackled outside the gates of a foreign fortress, Agamemnon's Mycenae. Through memories of her childhood and reflections on the long years of conflict, Cassandra pieces together the legendary fall of her city. A woman living in an age of heroes, Cassandra reveals the untold personal story that has been lost among the triumphs of Achilles and Hector.
