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The Last Weynfeldt
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Author : Martin Suter
language : en
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
Release Date : 2017-09-20
The Last Weynfeldt written by Martin Suter and has been published by Bedford Square Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-20 with Fiction categories.
A well-to-do bachelor, who sees no more promise in love. A beautiful young woman with a mysterious past. A picture and its price. An auction, which causes an uproar in the art community - and a few who come up short in their desire for the big money. Adrian Weynfeldt, mid-fifties, bachelor, upper middle class, art expert at an international auction house, lives in an expansive apartment in the city centre. He is done with love. Until one day a younger woman persuades him - against his customary practice - to take her home with him. The next morning, she is holding on to the balcony... and threatening to jump. Adrian is able to dissuade her, but from now on she makes him responsible for her life. Weynfeldt's settled life becomes untracked - until he finally realizes that nothing is the way it appears.
Der Letzte Weynfeldt
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Author : Martin Suter
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Der Letzte Weynfeldt written by Martin Suter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with German language materials categories.
Ein wohlhabender Junggeselle, der sich von der Liebe nichts mehr verspricht. Eine schöne junge Frau mit schillernder Vergangenheit. Ein Bild und sein Preis. Eine Auktion, die die Kunstszene in Aufruhr versetzt - und einige Zukurzgekommene, die teilhaben wollen am großen Geld.AutorentextMartin Suter, geboren 1948 in Zürich, arbeitete bis 1991 als Werbetexter und Creative Director, bis er sich ausschließlich fürs Schreiben entschied. Seine Romane - zuletzt erschien >Elefant - und Business Class-Geschichten sowie seine Allmen
L Ultimo Dei Weynfeldt
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Author : Martin Suter
language : it
Publisher: Sellerio Editore srl
Release Date : 2013-02-04T00:00:00+01:00
L Ultimo Dei Weynfeldt written by Martin Suter and has been published by Sellerio Editore srl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-04T00:00:00+01:00 with Fiction categories.
Adrian, cinquantenne piacente, l’ultimo dei Weynfeldt, ha ricevuto in eredità dal padre un solido e vasto patrimonio. Artista senza genio, ha ripiegato nell’expertise di pittura per un’importante casa d’aste. Le sue giornate sono disciplinate dalla regola inflessibile che più sono uguali l’una all’altra, più il tempo rallenterà la sua corsa spietata. Naturalmente, la vita supera tutte le barriere. E infatti il destino gli presenta la giovane Lorena, una modella del tutto sregolata, che in più ricorda ad Adrian irresistibilmente il suo unico e tragico amore. Negli stessi giorni, un amico gli ha affidato per una vendita all’asta un quadro del pittore Félix Vallotton, dipinto dotato di un’affascinante, inusuale sensualità. Da questo momento, per caso e per necessità, il viaggio di Adrian attraverso l’esistenza cambia forma: da uguale routine dorata diventa una movimentata commedia di scambi, equivoci, suspense; e la distaccata, elegante rassegnazione si tramuta in una saporosissima vendetta del desiderio.
Adua
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Author : Igiaba Scego
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2017-05-22
Adua written by Igiaba Scego and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-22 with Fiction categories.
“Utterly sublime . . . Aduatells a gripping story of war, migration and family, exposing us to the pain and hope that reside in each encounter” (Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King). Adua, an immigrant from Somalia, has lived in Italy nearly forty years. She came seeking freedom from a strict father and an oppressive regime, but her dreams of becoming a film star ended in shame. A searing novel about a young immigrant woman’s dream of finding freedom in Rome and the bittersweet legacies of her African past. “Lovely prose and memorable characters make this novel a thought-provoking and moving consideration of the wreckage of European oppression.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Igiaba Scego is an original voice who connects Italy’s present with its colonial past. Adua is an important novel that obliges the country to confront both memory and truth.” —Amara Lakhous, author of Dispute over a Very Italian Piglet “This book depicts the soul and the body of a daughter and a father, illuminating words that are used every day and swiftly emptied of meaning: migrants, diaspora, refugees, separation, hope, humiliation, death.” —Panorama “A memorable, affecting tale . . . Brings the decolonialization of Africa to life . . . All the more affecting for being told without sentimentality or self-pity.” —ForeWord Reviews “Deeply and thoroughly researched . . . Also a captivating read: the novel is sweeping in its geographical and temporal scope, yet Scego nonetheless renders her complex protagonists richly and lovingly.” —Africa Is a Country
A Present Past
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Author : Sergei Lebedev
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2023-04-11
A Present Past written by Sergei Lebedev and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-11 with Fiction categories.
"A tour de force—exquisite and gripping."—Philippe Sands, author of East West Street The Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them more movingly than Russian author Sergei Lebedev, who in this stunning volume probes a collective guilty conscience marked by otherworldliness and the denial of misdeeds. These eleven tales share a mystical topography in which the legacy of totalitarian regimes is ever-present—from Katyn to Chechnya, from Lithuanian KGB documents to the streetscape of unified Berlin, from the fragments of family history to the echoes of foot soldiers in Russia’s wars of aggression. In these stories, as in Lebedev’s acclaimed novels, the voices of things, places, animals, and people seek justice for a restless past, where steel claws scrape just beneath the surface and where the heredity of evil is uninterrupted, unacknowledged, unnamed.
Moving The Palace
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Author : Charif Majdalani
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2017-03-20
Moving The Palace written by Charif Majdalani and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-20 with Fiction categories.
“A Middle Eastern heart-of-darkness tale that flows like a dream . . . Crackling with razor-sharp humor” (The New York Times). At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Lebanese explorer leaves the Levant for the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. In this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who has dismantled a sumptuous palace in Tripoli and is transporting it across the continent on a camel caravan. The protagonist soon takes charge of this hoard of architectural fragments, ferrying the dismantled landmark through Sudan, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula, attempting to return to his native Beirut with this moveable real estate. Along the way, he will encounter skeptic sheikhs, suspicious tribal leaders, bountiful feasts, pilgrims bound for Mecca, and T. E. Lawrence in a tent—in this “utterly charming” novel that was a recipient of the Académie Française’s François Mauriac Prize (Library Journal). “Renders the complex social landscape of the Middle East and North Africa with subtlety and finesse . . . Yet one doesn’t need to care about the region’s history, or its present-day contexts, to enjoy Moving the Palace.” —The Wall Street Journal
De Laatste Weynfeldt
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Author : Martin Suter
language : nl
Publisher: Signatuur
Release Date : 2011-09-07
De Laatste Weynfeldt written by Martin Suter and has been published by Signatuur this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-07 with Fiction categories.
Een zeer welgestelde vrijgezel, die van de liefde niets meer wil weten. Een mooie, jonge vrouw met een duister verleden. Een schilderij en de waarde ervan. Een veiling die de kunstwereld in rep en roer brengt. Adrian Weynfeldt, halverwege de vijftig en vrijgezel, is de laatste telg van een vermogende familie. Hij woont in een kolossaal huis in het centrum van de stad en hoeft er weinig voor te doen om in zijn levensonderhoud te voorzien. Puur uit passie werkt hij als kunstexpert bij een groot internationaal veilinghuis. De liefde heeft hij al jaren geleden de rug toegekeerd, de kunst is zijn leven. Tot hij op een avond Lorena ontmoet, een jonge vrouw die hem overhaalt haar - geheel tegen zijn gewoonte in - mee naar zijn huis te nemen. De volgende ochtend staat ze echter op zijn balkon, klaar om te springen. Adrian weet haar ervan te weerhouden, maar vanaf dat moment acht ze hem verantwoordelijk voor haar leven. Daar komt nog bij dat ze hem doet denken aan zijn verongelukte vriendin Daphne. Als Adrian vervolgens ook nog via een vriend een schilderij van dubieuze herkomst in handen krijgt, is zijn eens zo geregelde leven geheel uit zijn voegen geraakt: wat is echt, en wat een kopie? Een beroemd schilderij van de Zwitserse schilder Félix Vallotton speelt een geheimzinnige rol in Suters nieuwe roman De laatste Weynfeldt.
Le Dernier Des Weynfeldt
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Author : Martin Suter
language : fr
Publisher: Christian Bourgois Editeur
Release Date : 2008
Le Dernier Des Weynfeldt written by Martin Suter and has been published by Christian Bourgois Editeur this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with German literature categories.
Adrian Weynfeldt, expert en art et dernier descendant d'une richissime famille suisse, mène une existence d'une régularité irréprochable au sein de la grande société zurichoise. Un soir, il se laisse charmer par une jeune femme qui s'invite à passer la nuit chez lui. Le destin de Weynfeldt sera désormais irréversiblement lié à celui de la mystérieuse Lorena. Un de ses amis proches le contacte afin de mettre aux enchères la fameuse Femme nue devant une salamandre de Félix Vallotton. Une vente qui promet de faire date dans le milieu de l'art. Il s'ensuit une série de péripéties, manipulations et retournements orchestrés avec subtilité par un Martin Sitter au sommet de son talent d'écrivain. Brouillant sans cesse les pistes, il joue avec le lecteur qu'il initie aux arcanes du marché de l'art, et maintient jusqu'à la dernière page un suspense maîtrisé à la perfection.
The Propagandist
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Author : Cécile Desprairies
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2024-10-08
The Propagandist written by Cécile Desprairies and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-08 with Fiction categories.
"Shows why historical fiction matters ... This haunting tale stayed with me."—Cara Black, author of Three Hours in Paris In a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized by her mother. The women talk about beauty secrets and gossip, but the mood grows dark when the past, notably World War II, comes under coded discussion in hushed tones. Years later, the silent witness to these sessions has become a prominent historian, and with this chilling autobiographical novel she sets out to unmask enigmatic figures in and around her family. Why, she seeks to understand, did they betray their Jewish neighbors and zealously collaborate with the Nazi occupation of France, remaining for decades hence obsessive devotees of that evil lost cause.
The Goose Fritz
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Author : Sergei Lebedev
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2019-03-19
The Goose Fritz written by Sergei Lebedev and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with Fiction categories.
A man obsessively investigates the mysteries of his family’s past in this “brave and unflinching” novel by the acclaimed Russian author of Oblivion (The Financial Times). Sergei Lebedev’s first two novels, The Year of the Comet and Oblivion, established him as one of Russia’s most important contemporary novelists. Now he reaffirms that status with this third work of fiction. The Goose Fritz tells the story of a young Russian named Kirill, the sole survivor of a once numerous clan of German origin, who delves relentlessly into the unresolved past. When Krill’s ancestor, Balthasar Schwerdt, migrated to the Russian Empire in the early 1800s, he brought with him the practice of alternative medicine. He was then taken captive by an erratic nobleman who supplied entertainment to Catherine the Great in the form of dwarves, hunchbacks, and magicians. S earches archives and cemeteries across Europe, Kirill’s investigation takes us through centuries of turmoil during which none of Schwert’s descendants can escape their adoptive country’s cruel fate. Illuminating both personal and political history, “Lebedev muses in Tolstoyan fashion about [how] the actions of distant ancestors can fix the destinies of people hundreds of years later" (The Wall Street Journal).