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Rivers
A critically acclaimed, award-winning collection drawing sparkling prose from the inspiration of three rivers passing through different times and places. On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature's tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish: to travel with the lumber from his small Franconian hometown to the end of the river in the Netherlands, where it feeds into the majestic North Sea. In a bucolic vale in the French region of Brittany, two families, divided by religion and an unnamed stream, sustain a centuries-old feud, their resolve no match for the constantly shifting flow of water. These three stories span countries and eras, but they are all connected by, and reliant on, the unpredictable power and languid beauty of rivers that give life as quickly as they take it away.
Le saint
Les captivantes mémoires picaresques de Donatien, qui deviendra saint Dieudonné de Metz, personnage aussi peu fiable qu'irrésistible Donatien est né l'année de la Révolution française. Avide de gloire et de reconnaissance, opportuniste impénitent, il mobilise ses talents et toute sa fourberie pour tirer le meilleur parti des vicissitudes de l'existence humaine. Donatien nous conte son épopée drolatique sous la forme d'un roman picaresque hédoniste, qui comprend tous les ingrédients qui ont fait la renommée du genre : hypocrisie, immoralité, cynisme. Il rencontrera des contemporains comme Victor Hugo, participera à l'élaboration de l'échelle de Beaufort, contournera le Cap Ho...
The Pelican
"[A] funny, serious, clever novel." --The New York Times From award-winning Dutch author Martin Michael Driessen comes a fearlessly funny tragedy about an improbable friendship, unstable dreams, missed opportunities, and epic coincidence. In a quiet coastal town in Yugoslavia, two men seeking more than the Communist regime can offer find their lives deceitfully entwined. Andrej is a postman in complete denial of his existence. He yearns for respect and fame but commits petty crimes for reasons he doesn't fully comprehend. Josip is an increasingly irrelevant cable car operator and unfaithfully married. Life was so much simpler when neither one knew the other's secrets. Now that they do--discovered quite by accident--each man has resorted to blackmailing the other. As their anonymous misdeeds escalate, a farce of mutual dependency begins. So does the unlikeliest of friendships when Andrej and Josip finally meet face-to-face. In a tale set against the impending wars, Martin Michael Driessen ingeniously explores the foibles of two painfully ordinary men boldly staking their claims on life.
Ríos
Las historias que se cuentan en este libro están ambientadas en tres ríos del norte de Europa. En el Aisne, en Francia, un hombre libra una batalla contra los elementos y contra sí mismo; en Alemania, a través del Rodach, el Meno y el Rin, dos almadieros persiguen un sueño que se encuentra más allá de sus fronteras; en un remoto valle de Bretaña, un arroyo es la causa, durante siglos, del enfrentamiento entre dos familias. Estos ríos, testigos mudos o agentes involuntarios de la alegría o desdicha de las personas, son símbolo de vida, de civilización y de apertura a nuevos horizontes, pero también de la violencia que entraña la naturaleza. Partiendo de ellos, Martin Michael Dri...
Baron Bagge, Mona Lisa
De novelles Baron Bagge en Mona Lisa, vertaald door Martin Michael Driessen. Een aanrader voor liefhebbers van Rilke, Roth en Zweig.
Het licht aan het einde van de loop
Wanneer een kogel de kamer verlaat en richting het einde van de loop jaagt, komt er een einde aan een lange periode van wachten. Eenmaal in beweging vindt hij in een fractie van een seconde zijn doel, maar tot hij wordt afgevuurd is zijn bestemming een raadsel. 0Wat ging er aan dat explosieve moment vooraf? In een buitengemeen origineel en spannend boek beschrijft Martin Michael Driessen het leven van wachten en vervulling van een specifieke kogel. Vanuit het perspectief van zijn curieuze hoofdpersonage passeren wisselende constellaties van mensen de revue die allemaal als potentiële schutters dan wel als doelwit in aanmerking komen -criminelen, brave Amerikaanse huisvaders, vrouwen en kinderen. De roman is niet zozeer een whodunit als een who?ll do it. De beschouwingen van de verteller, die de vervulling van zijn noodlot met gemengde gevoelens tegemoetziet, zijn menselijker, melancholieker en geestiger dan je van zo?n bescheiden projectiel zou verwachten.
Weaveworld
The Seerkind, a people who possess the power to make magic, have weaved themselves into a rug for safekeeping. Now, with the last human caretaker dead, a variety of humans vie for ownership of the rug.
The Secret Keeper
Withdrawing from a family party to the solitude of her tree house, 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking murder that throughout a subsequent half century shapes her beliefs, her acting career and the lives of three strangers from vastly different cultures. By the best-selling author of The Distant Hours. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.
The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
Phosphorus: Polluter and Resource of the Future
This comprehensive book provides an up-to-date and international approach that addresses the Motivations, Technologies and Assessment of the Elimination and Recovery of Phosphorus from Wastewater. This book is part of the Integrated Environmental Technology Series.
