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The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend, Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path in life. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Meticulously researched, drawing on the 658 letters Vincent wrote to Theo during his lifetime, Deborah Heiligman weaves a tale of two lives intertwined and the love of the Van Gogh brothers.

Die Ladenhüterin ist die warmherzige und überraschende Geschichte der sechsunddreißigjährigen Keiko Furukura aus Tokio. Keiko hat sich nie eingefügt, weder in ihrer Familie noch in der Schule, doch als sie mit achtzehn Jahren in der Filiale von „Smile Mart“ in Hiiromachi zu arbeiten beginnt, findet sie Frieden und Sinn in ihrem Leben. Im Laden versteht sie, anders als sonst irgendwo, die Regeln des sozialen Umgangs – viele sind im Handbuch des Ladens Zeile für Zeile festgelegt – und sie bemüht sich nach Kräften, die Kleidung, Manierismen und Sprechweise ihrer Kolleginnen und Kollegen nachzuahmen und die Rolle einer „normalen“ Person mehr oder weniger hervorragend zu spielen. Geschäftsführer kommen und gehen, aber Keiko bleibt achtzehn Jahre lang im Laden. Es ist fast schwer zu sagen, wo der Laden aufhört und sie beginnt. Keiko ist sehr glücklich, doch die Menschen in ihrer Nähe, von ihrer Familie bis zu ihren Kolleginnen und Kollegen, setzen sie zunehmend unter Druck, einen Ehemann zu finden und eine richtige Karriere zu beginnen, was sie zu verzweifelten Maßnahmen veranlasst … Als brillante Darstellung einer ungewöhnlichen Psyche und einer verborgenen Welt ist Die Ladenhüterin ein ironischer und scharfsichtiger Blick auf die zeitgenössische Arbeitskultur und den Druck, sich anzupassen, sowie das charmante und völlig neue Porträt einer unvergesslichen Heldin.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

لقد جاء عام 1984 ومضى، لكن رؤية جورج أورويل النبوئية الكابوسية التي صاغها عام 1949 للعالم الذي كنا نصير إليه تبدو اليوم أكثر راهنية من أي وقت مضى. لا تزال «1984» الكلاسيكية الحديثة العظيمة في أدب «اليوتوبيا السلبية» — رواية أصيلة على نحو مدهش ومقلقة، تخلق عالماً خيالياً مقنعاً تماماً، من الجملة الأولى إلى الكلمات الأربع الأخيرة. ولا يستطيع أحد إنكار سطوة الرواية على مخيلات أجيال كاملة، أو قوة تحذيراتها — وهي قوة يبدو أنها تزداد، لا تضعف، مع مرور الزمن.

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Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black—to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride—no matter how others may degrade them, the Logans possess something no one can take away.

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