Marijke Koch Knihy

Als in 1903 een al afgemeerd schip ontploft, met veel doden en gewonden tot gevolg, is onduidelijk wie de schuldige is.

A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel--"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)--Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties and again in the nineties. With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, "this is DeLillo's most affecting novel...a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

Vyrastal v nájomnom byte na najchudobnejšom predmestí švédskeho mesta Malmö, ako syn imigrantov z Juhoslávie. Jeho otec bol moslim, ktorého bosnianska dedina bola etnicky vyhladená; jeho matka bola chorvátska katolíčka. Bolo to manželstvo z rozumu, ktoré sa skončilo, keď mal Zlatan dva roky. Jeho detstvo bolo poznačené častými rodičovskými hádkami a nadmerným pitím. Zlatan si uvedomoval, že je „malý chlapec s veľkým nosom a vadou reči“. Medzi svojimi rovesníkmi získaval postavenie ako pouličný bitkár a zlodej bicyklov. Až neskôr ako futbalista. Riaditeľa školy ktorú navštevoval, nedávno požiadali, aby opísal ako si na neho spomína: „Som na tejto škole 33 rokov,“ povedal, „a Zlatan je určite v prvej päťke najneposlušnejších žiakov, akých sme kedy mali. Bol najhorším chlapcom, prototypom dieťaťa, ktoré skončí vo vážnych problémoch.“ Zlatan má tendenciu súhlasiť. Keď sa ho opýtali, čo by robil, keby nezarábal 250 000 libier týždenne, jeho prvá myšlienka je „bol by zo mňa zločinec“.

This is the extraordinary first-person account of a young woman's coming of age in Somalia and her struggles against the obligations and strictures of family and society. By the time she is nine, Aman has undergone a ritual circumcision ceremony; at eleven, her innocent romance with a white boy leads to a murder; at thirteen she is given away in an arranged marriage to a stranger. Aman eventually runs away to Mogadishu, where her beauty and rebellious spirit leads her to the decadent demimonde of white colonialists. Hers is a world in which women are both chattel and freewheeling entrepreneurs, subject to the caprices of male relatives, yet keenly aware of the loopholes that lead to freedom. Aman is an astonishing history, opening a window onto traditional Somali life and the universal quest for female self-awareness.

Henry Cage seemed to have it all. A successful business career, considerable wealth, and a reputation for being a just and principled man. But public virtues can conceal private failings, and as Henry faces retirement, his well-ordered life begins to unravel. On the eve of the new millennium he is the victim of a random act of violence which soon escalates into a prolonged persecution, with tragic consequences. Family secrets are revealed, and when his ex-wife Nessa summons Henry to Palm Beach, he realises that there is little time to redress the mistakes of the past. The Upright Piano Player explores with a tender, yet unflinching eye the small but devastating flaws in human nature that can shape our destinies.

The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is an eighteen-year-old who grasps the chance of escape to foreign lands and takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai, and, on the other side of the law, brings about the overthrow of the Shogun.

CRIME & MYSTERY. Moll Robbins is a journalist in a rut. But then she gets wind of a very exciting story: it concerns a small piece of celluloid, a pornographic film purportedly shot in a bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall with Hitler as its star. One person claims to have access to this unique piece of Naziana; inevitably, more than one wants it. Unfortunately for Moll, in the black-market world of erotica, the currency is blackmail, torture and corruption; and no price is too high.

Wanneer een Amerikaanse professor een pil ontwikkeld heeft waarvan men gelukkig wordt, is het resultaat voor zijn eigen gezin dramatisch.