It is 1943, and the German Army has been defeated at Stalingrad. The Russians have taken 91,000 prisoners; 145,000 German soldiers have been killed. The tide is beginning to turn. But on Guernsey and the rest of the Channel Islands, the only...
JAUNIE MĒRNIEKU LAIKI
Matīss Kaudzīte
««Jaunajos mērnieku laikos» Kaudzītes Matīsa ievērojamā personība redzama sevišķi spilgti. Grāmatas nolūks ir rādīt...
Il est peut-être né le jour de la mort de Jeanne d’Arc. On a pendu son père et supplicié sa mère. Il a étudié à l’université de Paris. Il a joui, menti, volé dès son plus jeune âge. Il a fréquenté les miséreux et les nantis, les...
In the magnificent tradition if Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Burr, Max Byrd reveals a Thomas Jefferson we've never met before... It is 1784, and Jefferson, the newly appointed American ambassador to the court of Louis Xvi and Marie-Antoinette had just...
Una gran epopeya rural por la primera mujer que obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Jerusalén narra la trayectoria vital de un grupo de campesinos suecos que a finales del siglo XIX, empujados por la fe, abandonaron su país para...
The first novel about present-day North Korea to be published in the West.
A moving and true-to-life tale of courage in the face of oppression and exile.
Hyejin Kim’s Jia follows the adventures of an orphaned young woman, Jia, who has the...