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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -From Rachel Kushner the celebrated, 'exceptionally talented, and philosophically minded writer,' (San Francisco Chronicle) and regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays encompassing politics, culture, and art.Since her debut more than a decade ago, Rachel Kushner has firmly established herself as not only one of our finest fiction writers, but one of our most incisive essayists-each of her pieces is singular, brilliant, and itself a literary event. Now, in The Hard Crowd, Kushner gathers a selection of her writing over the course of the last twenty years that not only illuminates the themes that underpin her fiction, but addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times. In nineteen razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on politics, social justice, and her personal relationships, as well as on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem, the world of truckers, and the music scene of her hometown of San Francisco. Her stories are electric, incisive, and wry, and provide us the opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. 'Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor.' -Entertainment Weekly 'The authority and precision of Kushner's writing is impressive, but it's the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.' -The Wall Street Journal 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -From Rachel Kushner the celebrated, 'exceptionally talented, and philosophically minded writer,' (San Francisco Chronicle) and regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays encompassing politics, culture, and art.Since her debut more than a decade ago, Rachel Kushner has firmly established herself as not only one of our finest fiction writers, but one of our most incisive essayists-each of her pieces is singular, brilliant, and itself a literary event. Now, in The Hard Crowd, Kushner gathers a selection of her writing over the course of the last twenty years that not only illuminates the themes that underpin her fiction, but addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times. In nineteen razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on politics, social justice, and her personal relationships, as well as on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem, the world of truckers, and the music scene of her hometown of San Francisco. Her stories are electric, incisive, and wry, and provide us the opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. 'Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor.' -Entertainment Weekly 'The authority and precision of Kushner's writing is impressive, but it's the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.' -The Wall Street Journal 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world's great civilizations for the first time at the end of the first millennium.In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to 1000 AD were lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn't yet discovered North America, that the farthest anyone had traveled over sea was the Vikings' invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired, blue-eyed people in Mayan temple murals in Chichen Itza, Mexico Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Mayan empire Valerie Hansen, a much honored historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world's first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research on medieval China and global history, she presents a compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies. As civilizations on at least five continents ventured outward, they spread technology, agriculture, and religion. These encounters, she shows, made it possible for Christopher Columbus to reach the 'New World' in 1492, and set the stage for the process of globalization that so dominates the modern era. For readers of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens, The Year 1000 is an intellectually daring, provocative account that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about how the modern world came to be. It will also hold up a mirror to the hopes and fears we experience today. 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times ('incandescent.hilarious.a triumph'), Oprah Daily ('surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise'), Vanity Fair ('Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress'), and more! From the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief and a 'magical tale of survival' (Publishers Weekly, starred review).In Melissa Broder's astonishingly profound new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path discovered on a nearby hike. Out along the sun-scorched trail, the narrator encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious, and poignant. Death Valley is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest, and is 'a journey unlike any you've read before' (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Friday Black). 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vogue and Vulture 'Alternately whimsical, sweet, and dark,' this astonishing debut novel about a lonely girl waiting for her mother 'brim[s] with uncompromisingly African magical realism' (The New York Times).Ayosa is a wandering spirit-joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who teach her to dance and wail at the death news; the Jolly-Annas, cruel birds who cover their solitude with spiteful laughter; the milkman, who never greets Ayosa and whose milk tastes of mud; and Sindano, the kind owner of a café no one ever visits. Unexpectedly, miraculously, one day Ayosa finds a friend. Yet she is always fixed on her beautiful mama, Nabumbo Promise: a mysterious and aloof photographer, she comes and goes as she pleases, with no apology or warning. Set at the intersection of the spirit world and the human one, Things They Lost sets out a rich and magical vision of 'girlhood as a time of complexity, laced with unparalleled creativity and expansion' (Vogue). Heartbreaking, elegant, and written in 'giddily exuberant prose' (Financial Times), it's a story about connection, coming-of-age, and the dizzying dualities of love at its most intoxicating and all-encompassing. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vogue and Vulture 'Alternately whimsical, sweet, and dark,' this astonishing debut novel about a lonely girl waiting for her mother 'brim[s] with uncompromisingly African magical realism' (The New York Times).Ayosa is a wandering spirit-joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who teach her to dance and wail at the death news; the Jolly-Annas, cruel birds who cover their solitude with spiteful laughter; the milkman, who never greets Ayosa and whose milk tastes of mud; and Sindano, the kind owner of a café no one ever visits. Unexpectedly, miraculously, one day Ayosa finds a friend. Yet she is always fixed on her beautiful mama, Nabumbo Promise: a mysterious and aloof photographer, she comes and goes as she pleases, with no apology or warning. Set at the intersection of the spirit world and the human one, Things They Lost sets out a rich and magical vision of 'girlhood as a time of complexity, laced with unparalleled creativity and expansion' (Vogue). Heartbreaking, elegant, and written in 'giddily exuberant prose' (Financial Times), it's a story about connection, coming-of-age, and the dizzying dualities of love at its most intoxicating and all-encompassing. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NATIONAL BESTSELLER \* A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK \* LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE In this 'espionage-laden family epic' (Vanity Fair), an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy-and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties.Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth. A decade prior, Cecily had been desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonized Malaya. A chance meeting with the charismatic General Fujiwara lured her into a life of espionage, pursuing dreams of an 'Asia for Asians.' Ten years later as the war reaches its apex, her actions have caught up with her. Now her family is on the brink of destruction-and she will do anything to save them. Told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, The Storm We Made spans years of pain, triumph, and perseverance. 'The tenderness in its details, the ordinary ways that these characters love and laugh in the face of the extraordinary.Chan shows us, with clarity and care, how the truest mirror comes from the intimacy of human connection' (The New York Times Book Review). 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -\*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!\* From 'one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot' (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China-perfect for fans of Lisa See's classics Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.According to Confucius, 'an educated woman is a worthless woman,' but Tan Yunxian-born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness-is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations-looking, listening, touching, and asking-something a man can never do with a female patient. From a young age, Yunxian learns about women's illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose-despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it-and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other's joys and struggles. No mud, no lotus, they tell themselves: from adversity beauty can bloom. But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife-embroider bound-foot slippers, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights. How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts A captivating story of women helping each other, Lady Tan's Circle of Women is a triumphant reimagining of the life of one person who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -\*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!\* From 'one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot' (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China-perfect for fans of Lisa See's classics Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.According to Confucius, 'an educated woman is a worthless woman,' but Tan Yunxian-born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness-is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations-looking, listening, touching, and asking-something a man can never do with a female patient. From a young age, Yunxian learns about women's illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose-despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it-and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other's joys and struggles. No mud, no lotus, they tell themselves: from adversity beauty can bloom. But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife-embroider bound-foot slippers, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights. How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts A captivating story of women helping each other, Lady Tan's Circle of Women is a triumphant reimagining of the life of one person who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today. 368 pp. Englisch.

Zustand: New. From a brilliant Brookings Institution writer, a vivid, timely, and insightful examination of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan s The Revenge of Geography.

Zustand: New. A gripping and heartfelt (The New York Times Book Review) story about two young brothers contending with the love they have for their abusive father, One of the Boys is one of the most striking debut novels of the year (Rolling Stone.

Zustand: New. A meditation on death and an embrace of death, this is the latest bestseller from acclaimed author Don DeLillo and is written with clinical precision and surgical sterilityA New York Times Notable Book A New York Times bestsell.

Zustand: New. In the bestselling tradition of Nice Girls Don t Get the Corner Office, The Confidence Code, and How Women Rise, former PepsiCo chief operations officer Grace Puma and former Nike president of consumer-direct Christiana Smith Shi show women ho.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. In the bestselling tradition of Charles Duhigg s The Power of Habit and Angela Duckworth s Grit, a renowned social psychologist demonstrates how a subtle turning of habits into rituals can clear a little space for everyday magic (The G.

Zustand: New. From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and one of the most gifted authors of her generation (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who inf.

Zustand: New. Synopsis coming soon.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and .

Zustand: New. Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille (The New York Times Book Review) in this delicious fairytale-like read (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste.Born above his grandfather s modest restaur.

Zustand: New. The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: Fascinating.serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author .

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. OPRAH S BOOK CLUB PICK - Instant New York Times Bestseller - Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more.

Zustand: New. The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, warmly conspiratorial.seriously good (The New York Times) literary memoir from the award-winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Park.

Zustand: New. In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls grit. Inspiration for non-geniuses e.

Zustand: New. Now includes a new essay, Naked Childhood, about Kushner s family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco! The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout. -T.

Zustand: New. From Rachel Kushner the celebrated, exceptionally talented, and philosophically minded writer, (San Francisco Chronicle) and regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, a career-spanning col.

Zustand: New. The #1 New York Times bestseller, Cujo hits the jugular (The New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a bat. Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to terrorize the town of Castle Rock, M.

Zustand: New. Tony Wagner s groundbreaking bestseller- a road map for parents who want to sculpt their children into innovative thinkers (USA TODAY) and a guide for an employer looking to have a pipeline of creative talent (Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO).

Zustand: New. This captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world (Financial Times) is both empowering (The New Statesman, UK) and compelling (New Scientist) as it challenges our most fundamen.

Zustand: New. In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing-and endangering-human sexuality and fertility o.

Zustand: New. Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. This celebrated volume gathers together her complete work -- four short collections of stunning stories about marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation. With her inimitable compassion a.

Zustand: New. When a bookshop patron dies by suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this shocking, charming, thrilling (Associated Press) and award-winning debut novel.Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight.

Zustand: New. Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah.