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Brigitte Coopmans

    Buena Vista
    The Informers
    The Athenian Murders
    Daughter of fortune
    Het lied van leven en dood
    • Het lied van leven en dood

      • 566 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Een reus raakt door een relatie met een knappe vrouw verzeild in een dorp in Patagonië met merkwaardige bewoners.

      Het lied van leven en dood2009
      4.2
    • The Informers

      • 338 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      'Juan Gabriel Vasquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature. His first novel, The Informers, a very powerful story about the shadowy years immediately following World War II, is testimony to the richness of his imagination as well as the subtlety and elegance of his prose' Mario Vargas Llosa

      The Informers2008
      3.6
    • The Athenian Murders

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      THE ATHENIAN MURDERS is a brilliant, very entertaining and absolutely original literary mystery, revolving round two intertwined riddles. In classical Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher suspects that this wasn't an accident and asks Herakles, known as the 'Decipherer of Enigmas', to investigate the death and ultimately a dark, irrational and subversive cult. The second plot unfolds in parallel through the footnotes of the translator of the text. As he proceeds with his work, he becomes increasingly convinced that the original author has hidden a second meaning, which can be brought to light by interpreting certain repeated words and images. As the main plot and also the translation of the manuscript advances, there are certain sinister coincidences, and it seems that the text is addressing him personally and in an increasingly menacing manner... THE ATHENIAN MURDERS constitutes a highly compelling, entertaining and intelligent game about the different ways we can see and read reality, about our refusal to take things 'as they are' and our need to interpret hidden meanings into everyday life.

      The Athenian Murders2004
      3.9
    • Buena Vista

      Cubaanse inkt

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Bloemlezing van verhalen over Cuba.

      Buena Vista2000
    • Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the 19th century, a tale of how Eliza Sommers becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair with the charismatic, but capricious Joaquin Andieta. When he disappears suddenly for California, she follows him.

      Daughter of fortune1999
      4.0