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Max
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Max" by Katherine Cecil Thurston. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Homo Faber
The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life.
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Mardigard bietet viele Chancen. Von den Büros von Broker Springs bis zu den Gassen von Crows Pit sind die Straßen voll von Scheinen, nach denen man nur zu greifen braucht. Tara ist immer bereit die Chancen zu nutzen, die die Straßen ihr bieten, doch sie muss erst noch lernen welchen Preis man dafür zahlt. In Mardigard ist es selten die Kugel die dich tötet, denn diese kommt erst geflogen, wenn dein Schicksal längst besiegelt ist.
Children of the Sun
1970: Fourteen-year-old Tony becomes seduced by Britain’s neo-Nazi movement, sucked into a world of brutal racist violence and bizarre ritual. It’s an environment in which he must hide his sexuality, in which every encounter is potentially deadly. 2003: James is a young writer, living with his boyfriend. In search of a subject, he begins looking into the Far Right in Britain and its secret gay membership. He becomes particularly fascinated by Nicky Crane, one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi movement who came out in 1992 before dying a year later of AIDS. The two narrative threads of this extraordinarily assured and ambitious first novel follow Tony through the seventies, eighties, and nin...
Knowing Max
Haunting novel about time and identity set in post-war 'fast set' Britain. A brilliant new novel that is quite different from the wonderful Ferney but which has some of the same qualities. Memory and coincidence play a strong part as the narrator, himself trying to escape a passionate relationship, endeavours to piece together the remarkable life of the man who used to own an old trunk, stuffed with letters, bought in a street market. Racing driver, lover, officer, but maybe not gentleman, con-man, liar, thief -- as the fascinating portrait of the trunk's owner evolves, so the narrator is drawn deeper and deeper into a story with strange connections to his own life.
Max
"[...] "We're well on time, Blake," he remarked, drawing out his watch. The youth by the window shot an involuntary, fleeting glance at the two younger men, to see which would answer to the name; and the student of human nature noted the fact that he understood English. "Oh, it's a good service!" he acquiesced, the tolerant look-half sceptical, half humorous-- passing again over his face. "I don't know! I think we could do with another few kilometres to the hour." The thin man studied his flat gold watch with the loving[...]".
