Marcelo Figueras, born in Buenos Aires in 1962, is a writer and a screenwriter.
61 Ebooks von Frank Wynne
Marcelo Figueras: Kamchatka
Winner of the 2012 Premio Valle Translation Prize
Shortlisted for the 2011 INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE
In the forecourt of a petrol station outside of Buenos Aires, a father says goodbye to …
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Alexis Jenni: The French Art of War
It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you see. Everything was going wrong. I just awaited the end. But then I met Victorien Salagnon, a …
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Claude Lanzmann: The Patagonian Hare
The international bestseller: a cry of witness to the 20th century – the unforgettable memoir of 70 years of contemporary and personal history from the great French filmmaker, journalist and …
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Boualem Sansal: German Mujahid
"[A] masterly investigation of evil, resistance and guilt, billed as the first Arab novel to confront the Holocaust" from the Nobel Prize-nominated author (Publishers Weekly).Banned in the …
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Tomás Gonzáles: In the Beginning Was the Sea
Death in paradise: sea, sex and a sinister downward spiral on a Caribbean island The young intellectuals J. and Elena abandon the parties, the drinking and the money of the city, and start a new life …
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Marie-Sabine Roger: Get Well Soon
A joyful novel full of humanity from the author of Soft in the Head After falling into the Seine and winding up in hospital, ageing widower Jeanne-Pierre begins writing his memoirs. But if he was …
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Bernard Henri-Levy & Michel Houellebecq: Public Enemies
'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals.' (Houellebecq to BHL)
In 2008, two of the most …
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo: Animalia
Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by the …
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Carlos Manuel Alvarez: The Fallen
A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s debut novel The Fallen is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned …
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Virginie Despentes: Vernon Subutex One
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018**WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX?An urban legend.A fall from grace.The mirror who reflects us all.Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an …
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Virginie Despentes: Vernon Subutex Two
**Sunday Times Best Books of 2018**"Funny, irreverent and scathing" Guardian"Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot" ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too …
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Javier Cercas: Impostor
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION – FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCOBut who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish Civil …
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Pierre Lemaitre: Three Days and a Life
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded by forests, where …
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Herv Le Corre: Talking to Ghosts
With his son Pablo’s kidnapping still unsolved, and his marriage ruined by the torment of hope, the brutal murder of a single mother in her own home is an almost welcome diversion for Commandant …
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Antonin Varenne: Loser’s Corner
2008. George ‚The Wall‘ Crozat has racked up thirty-eight victories (twenty-three of them by knock-out), eight defeats, and an empty bank account. Finally ready to hang up the gloves and focus on his …
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Pierre Lemaitre: Camille
MEET COMMANDANT CAMILLE VERHOEVEN OF THE PARIS POLICE WITH NOTHING ELSE TO LOSEAnne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jeweller’s on the …
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Pierre Lemaitre: Ir ne
THE NOVELIST KILLS BY THE BOOK For Commandant Camille Verh ven life is beautiful. He is happily married and soon to become a father.HE’S ALWAYS ONE CHAPTER AHEADBut his blissful existence is …
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Fabrice Humbert: The Origin of Violence
During a school trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, a young French teacher comes across a photograph of a man whose resemblance to his own father, Adrien, is uncanny. However, the man has a differ …
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Pierre Lemaitre: Great Swindle
Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Ir ne and Camille.October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the …
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Pierre Lemaitre: Blood Wedding
Sophie is haunted by the things she can’t remember – and visions from the past she will never forget.One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what …
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Boualem Sansal: Harraga
____________________ “This is a remarkable novel … and a remarkably brave one. It is compelling and gripping. The horrors of man“s inhumanity to man are presented unblinkingly“
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Modiano Patrick Modiano: La Place de l‘ toile
The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation’A Marcel Proust of our time‘ Peter Englund, permanent …
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Matias Nespolo: Seven Ways to Kill a Cat
‚There’s seven ways to kill a cat. But when it comes down to it, there’s only two ways. In a civilised fashion or like a fucking savage‘.In Buenos Aires, the economy has collapsed and people are …
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Michel Houellebecq: Lanzarote
Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of …
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Emiliano Monge: Among the Lost
In the desolate wastelands between the sierra and the jungle, under an all-seeing, unforgiving sun, a single day unfolds as relentlessly as those that have gone before. People are trafficked and …
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Wynne Frank Wynne: I Was Vermeer
Frank Wynne’s remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world. During van …
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Acosta Carlos Acosta: Pig’s Foot
______________________’Vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling … The pace leaves you breathless‘ – Kate Saunders, The Times’Elegant and seductive‘ – Guardian’Spellbinding … Acosta does for prose …
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Frédéric Beigbeder: A Life Without End
What does the man who has everything―fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby―want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his …
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Wynne Frank Wynne: Found in Translation
‚Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence‘ George Steiner. It is impossible to overstate the influence world literatures have had in defining each other. No culture …
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Amin Maalouf: Adrift
The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind. …
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Amin Maalouf: The Disoriented
“A thoughtful, philosophically rich story that probes a still-open wound.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor.” —The New York Times Book Review
One night …
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Virginie Despentes: King Kong Theory
‚I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don’t want …
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Marcelo Figueras: Kamchatka
An O, The Oprah Magazine Summer Reading Pick. A “brilliantly observed, heartrending” novel of a Buenos Aires boy in exile (Financial Times). In 1976 Buenos Aires, a ten-year-old …
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Wynne Frank Wynne: Queer
LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to …
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Guillermo Arriaga: Untameable
Goodfellas meets White Fang. By the BAFTA-winning screenwriter of Amores Perros."An epic tale" Sunday Times Crime Club"A fast-moving, intriguing and virile novel" Irish …
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Paul B. Preciado: Can the Monster Speak?
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3, 500 psychoanalysts at the École de la Cause Freudienne’s annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for …
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Adrien Bosc: Outrageous Horizon
‚A beautiful book about the best minds of a generation and the devastation of war – an outrageous voyage from the past that speaks eloquently to our present‘ Deborah Levy March 1941. A converted carg …
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo: Animalia
This “lyrically descriptive [novel] traces the terrible evolution of rural ways of life into cruelty and abuse via the history of one unhappy family.” —Kirkus Reviews 1898: In the …
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Pierre Lemaitre: All Human Wisdom
"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen King The second …
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Carlos Manuel Álvarez: The Tribe
Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young …
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Ahmadou Kourouma: Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote
Ahmadou Kourouma’s remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora – storyteller and king’s fool. Over the course of five nights he tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator …
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Valentin Gendrot: Cop
The story of a French journalist who infiltrated the country’s police force, revealing a culture of racism and violence in which officers act with impunity.What happens behind the walls of a police …
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Emiliano Monge: What Goes Unsaid
From one of Mexico’s most important writers, a fictionalised memoir about three men who are driven to escape the confines of their traditional lives and roles.In 1958, Carlos Monge Mc Key sneaks out …
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Gauz: Standing Heavy
"One of those rare, transformative novels" KARIM MISKE"Funny and poignant" TIFFANY TSAO, author of The Majesties Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the …
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Antoine Renand: Empathy
Prix Maison de la Presse Award Finalist 2019 Marion Mesny and Anthony Rauch, otherwise known as ‚The Pear‘, work at the heart of the Sexual Assault Unit in Paris. Renowned for their bravery and …
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Santiago H. Amigorena: Ghetto Within
In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that has stifled [him] since [he] was born, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring …
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Michel Houellebecq: Atomised
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human …
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Andre Comte-Sponville: Little Book Of Philosophy
In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a series of sparkling chapters on the ‚big questions‘. In doing so he reveals the …
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Philippe Besson: In the Absence of Men
‚An astonishing love story, beautifully told‘ Time Out’I am sixteen. I am as old as the century’It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, …
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Alonso Cueto: Blue Hour
Adri n Ormache, a high-flying lawyer with a beautiful wife and two daughters, leads a privileged and glamorous life in one of Lima s wealthiest neighbourhoods. But when his mother dies, he discovers …
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Victoria Mas: Mad Women’s Ball
‚A darkly sumptuous tale of wicked spectacle, wild injustice and the insuppressible strength of women‘ EMMA STONEX, author of THE LAMPLIGHTERS’An essential story of women resisting the unjust …
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Valentin Gendrot: Flic
flic(French noun, slang)cop; police officer Flic(noun)The gripping and groundbreaking work of French comics journalism.What happens behind the walls of a police station? What kind of living does a …
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Gauz‘: Standing Heavy
Winner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize • Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize • One of The Walrus‘ Best Fall Books of 2023
A funny, fast-paced, and poignant …
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Mathias Enard: Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers‘ Guild
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to …
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Mathias Énard: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers‘ Guild
From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an exciting comic masterwork rooted in the French countryside. To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves …
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Victoria Mas: Island of Mists and Miracles
Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see. In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Laboure was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for …
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