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'Sensual, spiky, tender and utterly original' Pandora Sykes

âe~In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear.âe(tm) Freetown, Sierra Leone. A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single assignment. He must find Michael Adriko âe" maverick, warrior, and the man who has saved Nair's life three times and risked it many more. The two men have schemed, fought and profited together in the most hostile regions of the world. But on this new level âe" espionage, state secrets, treason âe" their loyalties will be tested to the limit. This is a brutal journey through a land abandoned by the future âe" a journey that will lead them to meet themselves not in a new light, but in a new darkness.

Korean edition of THE CORRECTIONS: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen, the winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction. Author Franzen deftly sketches a portrait of the modern American dysfunctional family and marriage. In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...

Neuedition der Erzählungen mit 93 Short Stories in 4 Bänden, darunter 26 erstmals auf Deutsch, 17 neu übersetzte und 50 revidierte Erzählungen. Enthält zudem 4 Essays des Autors, von denen 2 erstmals auf Deutsch sind, sowie Nachworten von Paul Ingendaay, Daniel Kampa, Verena Lueken und Manfred Papst.

Now the subject of a major film by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, this work is F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. Edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Tanner, it follows young, handsome, and fabulously rich Jay Gatsby, the bright star of the Jazz Age. As writer Nick Carraway becomes immersed in Gatsby's extravagant world, he confronts the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires. Beneath the glamorous facade lies a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled, leading to a destructive obsession that unravels Gatsby's life. Fitzgerald captures the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failures of a society fixated on wealth and status. More than a reflection of a specific era, the narrative chronicles Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, embodying the universal conflict between illusion and reality. Fitzgerald, who married Zelda Sayre, whose struggles influenced his writing, has attained mythical status in American literary history. His masterwork is often regarded as the 'great American novel.' After his death, The New York Times noted that he 'created a "generation"' in both fact and literary sense.

In "Das entfernte Ufer" von Matthew Eck werden sechs amerikanische Soldaten nach einem Vorfall in einer belagerten Wüstenstadt in ein Überlebensszenario gezwungen. Der Roman thematisiert die moralischen Dilemmata und das Chaos moderner Kriegsführung und zeigt, dass selbst gute Absichten fatale Konsequenzen haben können.

Der Meteorologe Isaac Cline erlebt am 8. September 1900 in Galveston ein unheilvolles Gefühl. Trotz normaler Messwerte entfaltet sich am Abend ein verheerender Hurrikan, der zehntausende Menschenleben fordert. Parallel dazu wird die Entstehung des Sturms beschrieben, der durch das Zusammentreffen dreier Winde entsteht.

Amerikanische Mythen - das sind Stories von Siedlern, In-dianern, Goldgräbern, Cowboys, Millionären, Tellerwäschern. Einige solcher Geschichten enthält dieses Buch. Nicht alle sind historisch verläßlich, aber alle sind in einem höheren Sinn richtig. Autoren sind u. a. Max Brand, F. Scott Fitzgerald, C. S. Forester, Dorothy M. Johnson, Jack London und Mark Twain