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Ein New Yorker Ehepaar reist mit dem Zug in eine abgeschiedene, schneeverwehte Kleinstadt im Norden Europas, um im örtlichen Waisenhaus ein Kind abzuholen, das sie adoptieren wollen. Er hofft, durch das Kind seiner Frau wieder näherzukommen. Sie, gezeichnet vom Kampf gegen eine tödliche Krankheit, will ihn nach ihrem Tode nicht allein zurücklassen. Am Ziel ihrer Reise angelangt, quartieren sich die beiden im Grand Imperial Hotel ein, das von der Pracht längst vergangener Tage zeugt und in dem eine Handvoll skurriler Gäste logiert. Am nächsten Morgen setzt das Taxi sie fälschlicherweise nicht beim Waisenhaus ab, sondern vor dem Haus von Bruder Emmanuel, einem mysteriösen Heiler. Dies löst eine Reihe von Verwicklungen aus, die den Plan, das Kind abzuholen, nach und nach in den Hintergrund treten lassen. In diesem Buch darf nichts für bare Münze genommen werden – und nie weiß man, was als Nächstes geschieht. Peter Cameron stört empfindlich unsere Gewissheiten über den natürlichen Ablauf der Welt und liefert dabei einen Roman ab, dessen eigenartige Spannung und grotesker Humor ihresgleichen suchen.

A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness). An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. On arrival, the couple checks into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the lobby populated with an enigmatic cast of characters ranging from an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse to a debauched businessman to an enigmatic faith healer. Nothing is as it seems in this baffling, frozen world, and the more the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself. For readers of Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Strout, and Iris Murdoch, What Happens at Night is a "masterpiece" (Edmund White) poised on the cusp of reality, told by "an elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer" (Richard Eder, The Boston Globe).

Coral Glynn arrives at Hart House, an isolated manse in the English countryside, early in the very wet spring of 1950, to nurse the elderly Mrs. Hart, who is dying of cancer.  Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs. Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs. Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to come to terms with his latent homosexuality. When a child's game goes violently awry in the woods surrounding Hart House, a great shadow - love, perhaps - descends upon its inhabitants. Like the misguided child's play, other seemingly random events - a torn dress, a missing ring, a lost letter - propel Coral and Clement into the dark thicket of marriage. A period novel observed through a refreshingly gimlet eye, Coral Glynn explores how quickly need and desire can blossom into love, and just as quickly transform into something less categorical. Borrowing from themes and characters prevalent in the work of mid-twentieth-century British women writers, Peter Cameron examines how we live and how we love - with his customary empathy and wit.

This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read. 'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, Time William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life. 'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan 'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby INTRODUCED BY JOHN McGAHERN

Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.

Focusing on recent advancements in permutation groups, this book serves as an introductory guide tailored for beginning graduate students. It presents key concepts and developments in the field, making complex topics accessible for those new to the subject. Through clear explanations and structured content, readers will gain a solid foundation in permutation group theory.

Der 'Fänger im Roggen' des 21. Jahrhunderts! Es ist ein heißer Sommer in New York, aber James macht nicht nur die Hitze zu schaffen, sondern vor allem die Forderung seiner Eltern, endlich vernünftig und erwachsen zu werden. Im Herbst soll er auf die Universität gehen, seine Zukunft ist haargenau geplant, alles ist entschieden. Doch James will auf keinen Fall so enden wie seine Eltern. Für eine Welt, in der man mit Hunden mehr spricht als mit Menschen, in der man sich ständig belügt und die eigene Hilflosigkeit hinter Floskeln verbirgt, hat er nichts übrig. Er will ein sinnvolles Leben führen – doch wie er das anstellt, weiß er selbst noch nicht.

Quando qualcuno si accinge a scrivere la biografia di qualcun altro, parenti e amici del biografato cercano quasi sempre di ostacolare un'iniziativa che, in un futuro minacciosamente vicino, li costringerebbe a leggere la solita compilazione di svarioni, congetture e voli di fantasia non autorizzati. È quindi ovvio che né la moglie, né il fratello, né l'amante del defunto Jules Gund, autore di un solo e venerato libro, desiderano che il giovane Omar Rezaghi si rechi nella tenuta di famiglia in Uruguay, e s'impicci di faccende – piuttosto scabrose, fra l'altro – che non lo riguardano. Ma Omar ha una fidanzata che ripone in lui consistenti aspettative, e lo mette, di fatto, sul primo aereo per il Sudamerica – ignorando di consegnarlo così, nel ruolo di amoroso, a tre consumati professionisti della dissimulazione. È solo l'inizio di una commedia brillante e feroce, dove nessuna combinazione di fatti, sentimenti o rivelazioni è esclusa in partenza: e la regia di Peter Cameron, alternando concessioni alla platea e battute al vetriolo, costruisce sotto i nostri occhi una scena perfetta, che sembra immaginata da Noël Coward o Tennessee Williams, ed è invece solo quella in cui viviamo.

A novel about deceit, desire, and the persistence of memory. After a devastating personal tragedy, a man leaves the United States to start a new life. The country he settles in, Andorra, eerily echoes his past - especially when he begins to fall in love with two women simultaneously.