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Flights, a novel about travel in the 21st century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk’s most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion and migration. With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.

Brought to you by Penguin. On the Six-Thousand Ship, things have started to feel changed. Since bringing aboard a number of strange objects from a newly discovered planet, the crew – both human and humanoid – have begun to feel a yearning. They want to be near the objects, to feel them...

Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Silesian village at the start of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees her as second-best. When she falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with the era's dreams of power, glory and greatness, her life is irremediably changed.  

It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighbourhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the one per cent, but she can't seem to find her own...until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.

Brought to you by Penguin. Unlike anything you’ve read before, The Wax Child is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in...

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.

Die Geschichte der Liebe zwischen einer Frau, die gegen die Vorurteile ihrer Zeit kämpft, und einem Mann, der sich mit afrikanischen und arktischen Eskapaden an die Träume seiner Zeit von Größe und Macht verliert. Erst im Scheitern wird er mit der Realität konfrontiert - wie viele seines Volks und seiner Zeit. Die Frau bleibt ihm ihr Leben lang verbunden, in Gedanken, Briefen und einem großen Aufbegehren.

"Genre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin's fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph." –O, the Oprah Magazine Cinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved...

Es el año 2017 y Olga y su hermano, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, tienen un renombre audaz en su ciudad natal de Nueva York. Prieto es un congresista popular que representa a su vecindario Latinx de Brooklyn que está en vías de ser gentrificado, mientras que Olga es la organizadora de bodas más destacada de los poderosos de Manhattan.

Nelle città di provincia le ragazze perbene si assomigliano tutte. Per sottrarsi a un futuro già raccontato, Clara si trasferisce a Londra, dove insegna italiano a ricchi expat e si trova intrappolata nel vortice degli incontri online. Ma il matrimonio della bellissima cugina Rossella, inseparabile compagna d'infanzia diventata poi modella di abiti da sposa, la richiama a Caserta.

After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she can’t afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she forces herself to read and write.

"All three narrators are Puerto Rican–born and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel." —The Washington Post “The narrators’ accents and code-shifting create a vibrant auditory experience. In particular, Guerra’s luscious voice conveys...

Străveacul şi alte vremi este considerată cea mai reuşită carte a scriitoarei poloneze. Olga Tokarczuk construieşte o vastă alegorie despre forţa distructivă a timpului, povestind optzeci de ani din viaţa locuitorilor unui sat mitic. Sensul său profund este reprezentat de modul în...

James Green an English R.A.F. Engineer, test pilot and specialist in artificial intelligence, with an unexpected turn of events he finds himself getting entangled into handling an existing but forgotten project for the Russians to produce the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence fighter plane. The plane is already so advanced it is; in reality creating its self. The Plane & James form a unique and unbreakable bond.

Mascha ist jung und eigenwillig, sie ist Aserbaidschanerin, Jüdin, und wenn nötig auch Türkin und Französin. Als Immigrantin musste sie in Deutschland früh die Erfahrung der Sprachlosigkeit machen. Nun spricht sie fünf Sprachen fließend und ein paar weitere so "wie die Ballermann-Touristen Deutsch". Sie plant gerade ihre Karriere bei der UNO, als ihr Freund Elias schwer krank wird. Verzweifelt flieht sie nach Israel und wird schließlich von ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit eingeholt.

A woman shot dead. No enemies, no motive, only a story about how she swapped bodies with another woman found on her computer. The other woman in the story, the owner of the swapped body, goes into labor and won't talk. When FBI Agent Dave Dean asks psychiatrist/writer Mary Miller for her assistance, she doesn't know that The Case of the Swapped Bodies is not the only mystery in Port Haven. A hit and run, an armed robbery gone wrong, and questions about family traditions, priorities and legacies come into play and complicate matters.

What can you possibly do when your dazzling life starts unraveling before your eyes? Julianna Di Santis, a 33-year-old ad executive with a dream life in New York City, is about to find out, as her life starts crumbling before her very eyes, leaving her to question everything she though she wanted.

Life can be blurred, shaped, and reshaped in many ways. Everywhere you look, you see circles, squares, lines, and more lines. What you never think is that one line, one tiny little line, can change your life. For Emily, Rachel, and Vera, best friends since college, their yearly girls-only vacation is the time they regroup and leave behind their daily worries and woes.

Olga Master's debut novel - immediately hailed for her powerful and original fiction. Loving Daughters is a brilliant, unsentimental portrait of two sisters - one artistic and restless, the other houseproud, her father's favourite. The entry of an eligible young man into their lives creates a disturbing triangle of desire and rivalry.

The protagonist, Jesús, is ugly. Extraordinarily ugly. He is so ugly that his friends and relatives are convinced that behind that ugliness there must be something else. A malefic power or possibly a momentous fate. The truth is that fairly special things happen wherever Jesús is. His biological father is a mystery. His half-sister is a child-prodigy who excels at everything she does, his mother becomes the president of the country, his best-friend Vero is a computer tycoon, his brother-in-law also makes it in politics...But for all the success around him he still feels unsettled.