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In 1975, six young people stormed the West German embassy in Stockholm, taking the entire staff hostage. They demanded the immediate release of members of the Baader- Meinhof group being held as prisoners in West Germany, but twelve hours into the siege, the embassy was blown up, two hostages...

"Frihedens åndedrag" er tredje og sidste bind i Nádas' monumentale romanværk om to familier fra Berlin og Budapest. Af deres liv og skæbner væves et storslået billedtæppe, som spejler Europas historie i det 20. århundrede fra mellemkrigstiden og frem til Berlinmurens fald. Péter Nádas brugte 18 år på at skrive "Parallelle historier", som af de ungarske anmeldere blev hyldet som "Krig og fred for det 21. århundrede". Et fascinerende og provokerende romanværk i tre bind, som befæster hans position som en af vor tids allerstørste fortællere og har fået kritikere verden over til at sidestille ham med forfattere som Marcel Proust, Robert Musil, Thomas Mann og Lev Tolstoj.

The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist.The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180...

Femte bind i romanserien om Esben Poulsen fra Skarring. Lise og Esben er blevet gift, Lise er gravid, og de læser begge to stadigvæk i Brattrup. Esben har lidt svært ved at koncentrere sig om sin ægtestand: Der skal ikke så meget til at distrahere ham og lokke ham fra dydens smalle vej til bajerne og andre fristelser.

Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most...

Europæisk hovedværk om to familier fra Berlin og Budapest. Af deres liv og skæbner væves et storslået billedtæppe over det 20. århundredes historie fra mellemkrigstiden og frem til Murens fald i 1989. Centralt i romanen står tre usædvanlige mænd: Hans von Wolkenstein, hvis tyske mor har forbindelser til nazisterne; Ágost Lippay Lehr, hvis indflydelsesrige far har tjent Ungarns forskellige politiske regimer gennem årtier; og András Rott, som har sin egen dystre fortid. "Parallelle historier" er en vidunderlig, grum, poetisk og nøgtern roman om Europas kultur og krise.

"I nattens mørke dyb" er andet bind i Péter Nádas' monumentale romanværk, "Parallelle historier", der nu endelig foreligger i dansk oversættelse. Et europæisk hovedværk om to familier fra Berlin og Budapest. Af deres liv og skæbner væves et storslået billedtæppe, som spejler Europas historie i det 20. århundrede fra mellemkrigstiden og frem til Berlinmurens fald. Péter Nádas er blevet sammenlignet med litteraturhistoriens helt store sværvægtere som Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Leo Tolstoj og Marcel Proust.

In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin...

***WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION'S INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2017*** ***WINNER OF THE DANISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE (Best Crime Novel 2012)*** ***WINNER OF THE FINNISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' AWARD (Best Crime Novel 2012)*** ***WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY (Best...

INCLUDES MATTHEW PEARL'S EXCLUSIVE AUDIO AFTERWORD ON THE TRUTH BEHIND POE'S DEATH! Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. Everyone seems to accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end -- except for a young...

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically---it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate...

Return to the “steamy and dreamy” (Publishers Weekly) world of Christine Feehan’s #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian novels as thundering passions signal a dark force on the horizon... Buried alive for hundreds of years in a volcano in South America, Dax worries that he has become...

This Is Where We Live tells the story of Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she’s an aspiring filmmaker, he’s an indie musician) who are on the verge of making it. Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release, he’s assembled a new band and...

Set in Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel is filled with culinary delights, sumptuous wines, and colorful characters. It’s also a lot of fun. The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally impressive wine...

"[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, The New York Times Book Review In a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as elegant as...

In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening. Here the veil is ripped away from modern China--its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty--and the inextricable link between China's...

From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time...

Follow Father Tim and Cynthia on their journey to research his Kavanagh ancestry in the Irish countryside. Vacation—the very word has been foreign to Episcopal priest Tim Kavanagh. Now retired from tending his flock in the village of Mitford, he is making good on a promise to show his wife...

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us...

All New from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. As brutal as the undead he hunted, Zacarias De La Cruz was a master executioner. Now his stark and savage journey has ended. For his brothers, Zacarias had walked to the edge of madness, but with centuries as a killing machine now left to...