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My German Brother
Ciccio already has many problems: romantic failure, an older brother who seems intent on breaking the heart of every beautiful woman in Sao Paulo, a distant and larger-than-life father. When Ciccio finds, among the many of his father's books that line the walls of their house, a troubling letter dated `December 21, 1931. Berlin', his existential crisis only intensifies.
It seems that his father once had a child with another woman - a German son whose fate remains unclear. Ciccio sets out on a mission to locate his lost half-brother, and to win the respect of his father. But as Brazil's military government cracks down on dissent, and rumours of arrests and disappearances spread, while Ciccio has been out looking for his German brother, he finds that he has taken his eye off his immediate family...
In writing My German Brother, acclaimed Brazilian novelist and musician Chico Buarque was driven by the desire to find out what happened to his own German half-brother - whether he survived the war in a bomb-ravaged Berlin, whether he had joined the ranks of the Hitler Youth. His novel has been a project of a lifetime, one that makes use of what happened, what might have happened, and pure imagination, in order to weave together the threads of narrative and arrive at a truth.
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Touch
The electrifying new thriller from the author of the acclaimed The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Kepler is like you, but not like you. With a simple touch, Kepler can move into any body, live any life - for a moment, a day or for years. And your life could be next. SOME PEOPLE TOUCH LIVES. OTHERS TAKE THEM. I DO BOTH. 'Just extraordinary' Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go 'North's talent shines out' Sunday Times 'Dazzlingly imaginative' Sunday Mirror 'Breathless and brilliantly original' Love Reading 'Destined to be one of the biggest thrillers of 2015' Rick O'Shea, radio presenter Discover the mesmerising new novel from one of the most original new voices in modern fiction.
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Kalózszív
Sorra tűnnek el a fehér emberek a Brit Birodalom nyugat-afrikai gyarmatán: férfiak, nők, gyerekek. A korona Robert Frobishert, a kipróbált hajóst és diplomatát küldi Freetownba, hogy járjon utána a rejtélynek. Afrikába érkezve megismerkedik Aileen Hopkinsszal, a szép és belevaló fiatal lánnyal, akinek öccse szintén az eltűntek között van, és Aileen eltökélte, hogy mindenáron felkutatja. Robert számára, aki eddig leginkább bürokraták és üzletemberek közt forgott, merőben újszerű kihívást jelent, hogy ezúttal egy önfejű, ráadásul ellenállhatatlanul vonzó nővel kell szót értenie. Minthogy azonban céljaik egybevágnak, úgy döntenek, egyesítik erőiket…
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An extraordinary story of love and hope, travelling from the Middle East to London and beyond, from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing - to fall in love - in a world turned upside down. Theirs will be a love story but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow, of a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it.
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