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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass - as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam and riots sweep across India - their brotherly bond can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives. Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty. He will give everything, risk all, for what he believes, and in doing so will transform the futures of those dearest to him.

From Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, a stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

Designado Mejor Libro del Año 2008 por The New York Times, este título recibió un torrente de admiración de la crítica estadounidense y logró un hito al alcanzar el primer lugar en las listas de ventas, con más de 680 mil ejemplares vendidos en el país. Este fenómeno editorial es único en los tiempos recientes. La obra de Lahiri se centra en las vivencias de familias de ascendencia bengalí en Estados Unidos, y va más allá de la mera experiencia de la inmigración. Retrata con fidelidad las emociones y preocupaciones de un amplio sector de la sociedad moderna. Las historias presentan una variada galería de personajes, como hermanos, padres, maridos, amigos y amantes, que enfrentan momentos cruciales en sus relaciones. Navegan entre la inocencia y la experiencia, los dictados de la tradición familiar y la búsqueda de la emancipación personal, así como el impulso de reinventarse y definir su identidad en un mundo fragmentado. Sin duda, se trata de una muestra de gran literatura que deslumbra y conmueve, reafirmando la extraordinaria maestría de Jhumpa Lahiri, una autora en la plenitud de su arte.

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Tells an universal story of loss, regret and stoicism. In this novel, the fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age when he is stalked with physical woes.

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the 33rd president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial 'understanding' with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and whose virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. What then followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new novel by Pulitzer-prize winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family - and for a million such families all over the country - during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst.

Na zijn dood zwerft een joodse man door zijn vroegere omgeving en gaat samen met talloze andere doden uit een massagraf in Polen op zoek naar de eeuwige rust.

Satirische roman over de bewoners van een exclusieve buitenwijk van San Francisco, die allerlei geestelijke alternatieven tegenover hun materiële welvaart trachten te stellen.