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Bernhard Robben, geboren 1955, Übersetzer und Journalist, lebt in Brunne/Brandenburg und übersetzt aus dem Englischen u. a. Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Patricia Highsmith, Peter Carey und Philip Roth. 2003 wurde er für die Übersetzung des Romans ›Abbitte‹ von Ian McEwan und für sein Lebenswerk mit dem Übersetzerpreis der Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW ausgezeichnet, 2013 mit dem Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt-Preis.




64 Ebooks by Peter Carey

Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America
Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on …
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€8.74
Peter Carey: Tax Inspector
The day that Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy was also the day that the Tax Inspector, Maria Takis, arrived to begin her long-overdue …
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€8.72
Peter Carey: Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
If you are not a citizen of Voorstand, you may not be familiar with the strange case of Tristan Smith and his illegal appropriation of Bruder Mouse. Even if you are a citizen of faraway Efica, you …
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€8.74
Peter Carey: Collected Stories
Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories …
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€8.75
Peter Carey: Jack Maggs
London, 1837. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the …
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€8.74
Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang
'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence…'To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and …
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€8.78
Peter Carey: My Life as a Fake
Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most …
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€8.68
Peter Carey: Illywhacker
An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, …
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€8.74
Peter Carey: Bliss
Peter Carey's astonishing debut novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in …
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€8.75
Peter Carey: Theft: A Love Story
Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's …
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€8.72
Peter Carey: His Illegal Self
Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to …
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€8.73
Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in …
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€9.96
Peter Carey: Chemistry of Tears
London 2011. Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years – but as the mistress of a married man, she has to grieve in private. …
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€8.76
Peter Carey: Big Bazoohley
Sam Kellow is nine. His father is a compulsive gambler, pursuing the 'big bazoohley' – the jackpot to end all jackpots. But it is Sam who sets out to win it – against all the odds, he …
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€6.24
Peter Carey: Amnesia
When Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia's prison system, allowing hundreds of asylum seekers to walk free, she also let the cat out of the bag. The Americans ran the prisons, …
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€8.72
Peter Carey: A Long Way From Home
Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award Longlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural …
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€9.99
Peter Carey: Amnesie
Peter Careys ›Amnesie‹ trifft mitten in den wunden Punkt unseres Jetzt. Die junge Australierin Gaby Bailllieux hackt ein amerikanisches Sicherheitssystem und befreit Tausende Gefangene. Im Fall …
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€9.99
Peter Carey: Das schnellste Rennen ihres Lebens
Australien, 1954: Irene Bobs liebt schnelle Rennen. Ihr Ehemann ist der beste Autoverkäufer im Südosten. Gemeinsam wollen sie am Redex Reliability Trial teilnehmen, dem härtesten Autorennen …
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€19.99
Peter Carey: Theft
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€6.62
Peter Carey: His Illegal Self
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€17.06
Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America
From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author: an irrepressible, audacious, trenchantly funny new novel set in the 19th century and inspired in part by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville.With dazzling …
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€31.48
Peter Carey: Chemistry of Tears
An automaton, a secret love story, a man and a woman who can never meet, and the fate of the warming world are all brought to incandescent life in this haunting new novel from one of the most admired …
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€29.98
Peter Carey: Collected Stories
For the first time, Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s dazzling stories are gathered in one volume. Bound together with his critically acclaimed collection, The Fat Man in History, are seventeen …
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€29.91
Peter Carey: Jack Maggs
A foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fortunes, he seeks to fulfill his innermost desire. Returning to …
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€31.51
Peter Carey: Fat Man in History
If, in some post-Marxist utopia, obesity were declared counterrevolutionary, how would a houseful of fat men strike back? If it were possible to win a new body by lottery, what kind of people would …
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€20.24
Peter Carey: Theft
Ferocious and funny, penetrating and exuberant, Theft is two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Careys master class on the things people will do for art, for love . . . and for money.I dont know if my …
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€31.45
Peter Carey: His Illegal Self
Two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Careys His Illegal Self crackles with passionate, electrifying prose and characters that leap off the page and into your psyche. Utterly captivating. It is 1972 and …
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€29.98
Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang
The international bestseller and winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book.Out of 19th century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations: Ned Kelly, the son of …
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€25.43
Peter Carey: My Life as a Fake
Following the triumph of his Booker Prizewinning True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and …
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€31.50
Peter Carey: Wrong About Japan
Previous winner of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel but now gives us something entirely different. When famously shy Charley Carey becomes …
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€25.49
Peter Carey: Jack Maggs
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€7.96
Peter Carey: My Life as a Fake
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€11.65
Peter Carey: Wrong About Japan
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€17.19
Peter Carey: Illywhacker
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€9.27
Peter Carey: Fat Man in History
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€11.94
Peter Carey: Tax Inspector
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€13.23
Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda
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€15.96
Peter Carey: Bliss
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€13.23
Peter Carey: Chemistry of Tears
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€7.94
Peter Carey: Amnesia
From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel–at once dark, suspenseful and seriously funny–that takes us on a journey to the place where the cyber underworld of …
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€31.54
Peter Carey: Amnesia
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€17.32
Peter Carey: Long Way from Home
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€11.90
Peter Carey: Wrong About Japan
For Peter Carey, a trip to Japan with his twelve-year-old son Charley would be a unique opportunity to share and learn something about his son’s passion for Japanese comics and animated …
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€13.71
Thomas Aquinas: De Sortibus
This book makes De Sortibus, Thomas Aquinas’s letter to a friend on the casting of lots, available in clear English for the first time. The letter was written around 1270 and was prompted by the …
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€17.99
Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father’s stern religion in favour of the Anglican Church. Lucinda Leplastrier, a frizzy-haired heiress, impulsively buys a …
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€26.12
Peter Carey: Long Way from Home
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent over roads no car will ever …
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€26.16
Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the child of survivors of the revolution. Parrot, the son of an English printer, is a restless servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World – ostensibly to study …
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€22.72
Peter Carey: Chemistry of Tears
When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work. In an act of compassion her manager at London’s Swinburne Museum gives her a very particular project: a box of intricate clockwork …
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€26.27
Peter Carey: Amnesia
When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia’s prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse: an American corporation runs prison security, so the malware …
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€26.17
Peter Carey: Bliss
It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that the life he thought was happy is actually hellish. His wife is a cheat, his kids are a source of shame, his company spruiks …
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€25.94
Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang
As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he’s a hero for opposing the …
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€26.09
Peter Carey: Illywhacker
Herbert Badgery is vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch. He might very well be the embodiment of Australia’s national character, especially in its fondness for tall …
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€22.67
Peter Carey: Jack Maggs
The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of …
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€26.10
Peter Carey: Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Severely afflicted, doomed never to be taller than three foot six, Tristan Smith faces death and danger from the first moment of his energetic and ambitious life. Here, for the first time, is the …
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€26.16
Peter Carey: Tax Inspector
The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky’s Karamazovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full …
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€26.11
Peter Carey: His Illegal Self
Che is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he yearns for his famous outlaw parents. Soon Che too …
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€26.07
Peter Carey: My Life as a Fake
In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a …
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€26.12
Peter Carey: Theft: A Love Story
Michael ‘Butcher’ Boone is an ex-‘really famous’ painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they’ve forged a …
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€26.27
Peter Carey: Fat Man in History and Other Stories
The Fat Man in History and Other Stories combines the brilliant, bizarre, funny, chilling pieces originally published in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes (plus three stories not in either). …
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€26.27
Peter Carey: Data Protection
Now in its sixth edition, this invaluable handbook provides a complete guide to the practical application of data protection law in the UK. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of …
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€120.24
Peter Carey: Data Protection
Now in its sixth edition, this invaluable handbook provides a complete guide to the practical application of data protection law in the UK. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of …
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€119.82