![]() ![]() ![]() At the heart of a cast as diverse as the union itself is Fenia Xenapoulou, a Greek Cypriot recently "promoted" to the Department of Culture, who hopes to revamp the European Commission's image by proclaiming Auschwitz as its birthplace with the "Big Jubilee Project." Other tragic heroes, clever schemers, and involuntary accomplices are intricately woven, revealing the absurdities-and real dangers-of a fiercely nationalistic "union." Mordantly funny and piercingly urgent, The Capital, the winner of Germany's highest fiction prize, is an "elegantly written, beautifully constructed" (Die Zeit) feat of world literature. The Capital: A Novel: Menasse, Robert, Bulloch, Jamie: 9781631497865: : Books Books Literature & Fiction Genre Fiction Buy new: 13.63 List Price: 18.95 Details Save: 5. The resulting novel has become an international sensation, translated from German into more than twenty languages and deemed "the first great EU novel" (Politico). Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Capital: A 'House of Cards' for the E.U. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Kindle edition by Menasse, Robert, Bulloch, Jamie. Set on capturing the elusive inner workings of the European Union, Robert Menasse, one of Austria's most creative thinkers, moved to the EU's headquarters in Brussels for an enthralling, wine-soaked tour of supranational institutions. The Capital: A 'House of Cards' for the E.U. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote―and perhaps not even to live―the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.īut when the Eastwood sisters―James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna―join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. ![]() ![]() Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR Books.Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel. ![]() "―Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling authorĪ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. ![]() Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. ![]() In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery O’Connor at her most haunting. Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert PattinsonĪ dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. ![]() ![]() ![]() The finale, An American Spy, was published in March 2012 in the US and UK, and it spent 3 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, as well as the LA Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. The second volume, The Nearest Exit, was published in 2010 and won the Hammett Prize for best literary crime novel of the year. The Tourist reached the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 25 languages. ![]() With The Tourist (2009), he began a trilogy of spy tales focused on international deception in the post 9/11 world. The rest of the sequence includes: The Confession, 36 Yalta Boulevard (The Vienna Assignment in the UK), Liberation Movements (The Istanbul Variations in the UK)-this one was nominated for an Edgar Award for best novel of the year-and Victory Square, which was a New York Times editor’s choice. His first novel, The Bridge of Sighs (2003), began a five-book sequence chronicling Cold War Eastern Europe, one book per decade. He now splits his time between Hungary and New York with his wife and daughter. He spent a year in Romania on a Fulbright grant, an experience that helped inspire his first five books. ![]() Olen Steinhauer grew up in Virginia, and has lived throughout the US and Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 10 publication date, reportedly dives into far more detail about how Harry’s once-close relationship with William, heir to the throne, deteriorated over the last several years-including an explosive scene in which Harry says that William grabbed him by the collar and threw him to the ground in a 2019 argument about Meghan. But Spare, which was mistakenly put on sale in Spain days before its official Jan. Harry claimed in the Netflix series, which was released last month, that in January 2020 his brother had “screamed” at him in front of their grandmother, the Queen, about Harry’s plan to leave England with his wife Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex. Now, leaked excerpts from Harry’s forthcoming memoir Spare dive into greater detail about the rift between Harry, William, and their wives. But Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, did detail clashes he had with his brother Prince William, heir to the throne. The recent Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan didn’t offer much in the way of revelations for avid royal watchers. ![]() |