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The internationally acclaimed novel, is the story of an idealistic medical graduate who arrives at an isolated South African hospital to take up a year's community service

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS

What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as it goes on being written every day. An autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels.

A magical novel from a world class writer about a remarkable historical figure. In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of the soap-boiler Anna, and under the influence of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is made the first Khoi or ‘Hottentot’ missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope. Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all his early beliefs. After being drawn into the fierce struggle between the missionaries and the Dutch colonists, he rises to some prominence and is appointed as missionary in a remote and arid region in the North-western Cape. But this also marks the beginning of his decline, as the Society abandons him to his fate. One by one, the members of his congregation disappear into the desert, so that in the end, abandoned even by his wife and children, he is left to preach to the stones and thorn trees and tortoises, returning to the dream-world of his people. In a heady mixture of comedy and tragedy, the real and the magical, and immersed in the ancient, earthy, African world of magic and dreams, Praying Mantis explores through the historical figure of Cupido Cockroach the origins of racial tension in the shadowlands between myth and history.

La publicación de la segunda novela de Nicole Krauss confirmó su extraordinario talento, recibiendo elogios de críticos y escritores, incluido el Premio Nobel J. M. Coetzee. Con una mezcla de humor y ternura, la autora aborda el insondable tema del amor, la pérdida y la memoria, rindiendo homenaje a la literatura y su capacidad para transformar vidas. Leo Gursky, un cerrajero polaco jubilado en Nueva York, teme morir sin que nadie lo haya visto. Su vida da un giro cuando recibe un manuscrito perdido, acompañado de una carta enigmática, que lo lleva a revivir recuerdos de su juventud. Mientras tanto, Alma Singer, una quinceañera que enfrenta los dilemas de su edad, decide que es hora de que su madre supere la tristeza tras la muerte de su padre. Su búsqueda de un nuevo marido para su madre se entrelaza con la novela "La historia del amor", escrita en yidis y adquirida por su padre en Buenos Aires. Surgen interrogantes sobre el pasado de su padre, el autor del libro y un misterioso hombre que ha encargado su traducción al inglés. La narrativa se intensifica a medida que los caminos de Leo y Alma se cruzan, revelando una trama ingeniosa que culmina en un final inolvidable. Con un tono intimista, Krauss logra contar una profunda historia de amor, llena de pasión y melancolía, que resonará con todo tipo de lectores.

Een ex-politieke gevangene probeert in Dublin de draad van zijn leven weer op te pakken.

On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling honesty that not only intrigues and disturbs but is also completely enthralling.