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  • FRANNY AND ZOOEY
    FRANNY AND ZOOEY
    JEROME D. SALINGER
    De lotgevallen van een broer en zuster, beiden zoekend naar een innerlijk evenwicht. ...
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    11,25 €

  • COLD MOUNTAIN
    COLD MOUNTAIN
    CHARLES FRAZIER
    Inman is a wounded soldier who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his pre-war sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to survive her father's death and the loss of his income by reviving the family farm in the Cold Mountain community where she is an outsider. Based on...
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    12,50 €

  • THE BELL JAR
    THE BELL JAR
    SYLVIA PLATH
    Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable, witt...
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    11,25 €

  • THE TRIAL OF GOD
    THE TRIAL OF GOD
    ELIE WIESEL
    The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)A Play by Elie WieselTranslated by Marion WieselIntroduction by Robert McAfee BrownAfterword by Matthew Fox Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination. Set in a Ukranian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place...
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    18,75 €

  • PALACE WALK
    PALACE WALK
    NAGUIB MAHFOUZ / NAJIB MA?FU?
    THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR. 'A masterpiece' - The Times'The Arab Tolstoy' - Simon Sebag Montefiore'Shamelessly entertaining' - Guardian'Luminous' - New York TimesA sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the...
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    12,50 €

  • POSSESSION
    POSSESSION
    A. S. BYATT
    Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.WINNER OF THE BOOKER PR...
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    13,75 €

  • NINE STORIES
    NINE STORIES
    J.D. SALINGER
    The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of Salinger's fictional Glass family.Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urb...
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    12,50 €

  • THE THINGS WE WATER
    THE THINGS WE WATER
    MARIANA ZAPATA
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    13,75 €

  • THE COVENANT OF WATER
    THE COVENANT OF WATER
    ABRAHAM VERGHESE
    "Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the fir...
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    24,95 €

  • THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
    THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
    J. D. SALINGER
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    11,25 €

  • FOR ESME - WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR : AND OTHER STORIES
    FOR ESME - WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR : AND OTHER STORIES
    J. D. SALINGER
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    8,75 €

  • BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU
    BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU
    SALLY ROONEY
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    16,95 €

  • THE FIRST MAN
    THE FIRST MAN
    ALBERT CAMUS
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    12,50 €

  • NOCILLA TRILOGY
    NOCILLA TRILOGY
    AGUSTIN FERNANDEZ MALLO
    A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy-Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla Experience-presents multiple narratives of people and places that reflect America and the world in the digital age of the twenty-first century. In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree covered in hundreds of pairs of shoes. Far...
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    12,50 €

  • KAIROS
    KAIROS
    JENNY ERPENBECK
    Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, pun...
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    12,50 €

  • GREEN DOT
    GREEN DOT
    MADELEINE GRAY
    A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, THE I, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND RED 'One of the best books you will read all year' ELIZABETH DAY 'Incredibly funny. Every sentence sparkles' CAITLIN MORAN 'Imagine the intensity of Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion written with the lightness of Bridget Jones's Diary and the irreverence of Fleabag' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the most...
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    23,75 €

  • GREEN DOT
    GREEN DOT
    MADELEINE GRAY
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    18,75 €

  • TROUBLING LOVE
    TROUBLING LOVE
    ELENA FERRANTE / ANN GOLDSTEIN
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    11,25 €

  • MARIGOLD MIND LAUNDRY
    MARIGOLD MIND LAUNDRY
    JUNGEUN YUN
    The NEXT irresistibly uplifting read for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD set in a magical laundry The #1 International word-of-mouth bestseller Heartwarming and inspirational, MARIGOLD MIND LAUNDRY will remind you there is always a reason to feel positive 'A life-changing novel' ***** reader review 'A book that makes me reflect on my life' ***** 'Even better when you rea...
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    16,25 €

  • THE FOUR WINDS
    THE FOUR WINDS
    KRISTIN HANNAH
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    12,50 €

  • MONGREL
    MONGREL
    HANAKO FOOTMAN
    An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways. ...
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    12,50 €

  • DON BIOGOTE
    DON BIOGOTE
    ROY LOTZ
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    12,99 €

  • THE CENTRE
    THE CENTRE
    AYESHA MANAZIR
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    12,50 €

  • THE BOOK OF DISAPPEARANCE
    THE BOOK OF DISAPPEARANCE
    IBTISAM AZEM
    "Alaa, a young Palestinian, is haunted by his grandmother's memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland. Ariel, Alaa's neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished,...
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    18,75 €

  • JAMES
    JAMES
    PERCIVAL EVERETT
    Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha HaJames by Percival Everett is a profound and ferociously funny reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. From the author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Boo...
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    12,50 €

  • HIKIKOMORI
    HIKIKOMORI
    LUKE DARRACOTT
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    20,99 €

  • TAMARISK ROW
    TAMARISK ROW
    GERALD MURNANE
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    14,95 €

  • A ROOM ABOVE A SHOP
    A ROOM ABOVE A SHOP
    ANTHONY SHAPLAND
    From a new voice in Welsh literature, an atmospheric and poignant story of a relationship between two small-town Valleys men during the late 1980s. ...
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    18,75 €

  • TWIST
    TWIST
    COLUM MCCANN
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    23,75 €

  • FLIGHT BEHAVIOUR
    FLIGHT BEHAVIOUR
    BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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    12,50 €