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Instalada en la casa que heredó de su padre y con la sola companía de una pariente anciana, Eszter es una mujer soltera que vive con la placidez y tranquilidad de quien ha logrado adaptarse a lo que la vida le ha deparado. Hasta que un día,inesperadamente, recibe un telegrama de Lajos, viejo amigo de la familia, anunciando su inminente visita. Canalla encantador y sin escrúpulos, cuyas magníficas dotes de actor le confieren un poder de seducción irresistible, Lajos no sólo traicionó aEszter, sino que también destruyó a su familia y les quitó todo lo que poseían, salvo la casa en la que viven y cuyo jardín es su único y escaso medio de subsistencia. Ahora, tras una prolongada ausencia, Lajos regresa y Eszter se prepara para recibirloconmovida por un torbellino de sentimientos contradictorios. Con la inevitabilidad del destino como eje central de la narración, La herencia de Eszter se desarrolla de una forma totalmente inesperada y paradójica. El vividor y mentiroso Lajos, con suinagotable energía, es un vendaval de vitalidad, alegría y pasión por la vida que sólo por el hecho de existir pone permanentemente en entredicho la aparente solidez de las convenciones morales más arraigadas. Escrita en 1939, tres anos antes de Elúltimo encuentro, con la misma prosa depurada y precisa que ha admirado a miles de lectores, esta novela es una pequena joya que merece su lugar entre las mejores obras literarias del siglo XX.

Der Goethe-Spezialist János Mester hat weder in der Forschung noch bei den Frauen wirklich Fortune: als Wissenschaftler wartet er bisher vergebens auf den groáen Durchbruch, und seine dritte Ehe steht vor dem Aus. Umso willkommener ist ihm da einForschungsaufenthalt in Berlin. Endlich wird er sein Buch über den Dichterfürsten und dessen Romanzen zum Abschluss bringen können. Aber statt zu arbeiten, lässt Janos lieber sein eigenes Leben und seine Lieben Revue passieren. Im Gegensatz zu demverehrten Meister hat er es jedoch nur auf ganze zehn Frauen gebracht. Und nur eine davon hat er wirklich geliebt.

Che cosa aspetti a infilarti il costume, vecchio commediante, illusionista appassito? Il ballo in maschera sta per cominciare. Il libertino quarantenne ha un gusto amaro in bocca, e la stanza c piena di ombre: sono le ombre della sua giovinezza. Ma haun contratto, e deve rispettarlo. Dov'c la lettera che gli ha mandato Francesca? Devo vederti ha scritto. Oh, non sara né la prima né l'ultima che riceve da una donna sposata. Questa, pero, c stata scritta dalla sola donna che un giorno ha creduto diamare (e lui, per paura di quell'amore, c fuggito). Per di piu gliel'ha portata il marito in persona: Sua Eccellenza il conte di Parma.

The master of the medical thriller' New York Times The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestsellingauthor and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with Coma: what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical 'incubators' against their will. Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student atMason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, she doesn't know it's the last time she will see him whole again. Devastated by Carl's death, Lynnsearches for answers.

An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch-Scout-struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society,and the small Alabama town that shaped her.Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee's enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as amagnificent novel in its own right.

Dans une petite ville de la province hongroise, un respectable professeur de latin mcne une vie terne et solitaire, dénuée de surprises. Lorsqu'il entreprend de tenir son journal, pour faire passer le temps , cette apparente tranquillité vole enéclats. Au fur et a mesure qu'il couche sur le papier les menus faits et gestes de ses journées, des bribes de souvenirs d'enfance lui reviennent, la glace qui recouvrait ses émotions se craquelle, et sa propre vérité surgit enfin. Cette felure enannonce une autre, qui va faire basculer sa vie : une passion amoureuse, violente, ravageuse... Ce premier roman de Sandor Marai impose d'emblée le talent magistral du grand auteur des Braises.

A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented authorChristine Rose is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin late one night when she sees a stranger, Adam, poised to jump. Desperate to help, she talks him into a reckless deal: if he gives her two weeks - till his 35th birthday - she'll prove that life isworth living.But as the clock ticks and the two of them embark on late-night escapades and romantic adventures, what Christine has really promised seems impossibleA novel to make you laugh, cry and appreciate life, this is Cecelia Ahern at her thoughtful and surprising best.

A profoundly moving novel with the unforgettable power of Szabo's award-winning The Door. When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life, but can't seem to get itright. She irritates the maid, hangs food outside the window because she mistrusts the fridge and, in her naivety and loneliness, invites a prostitute in for tea. Iza's Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life's companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known. It is about the meeting of the old-fashioned and the modern worlds and the beliefs we construct over alifetime.

Trois récits pour évoquer trois expériences cruciales de l'auteur, en Hongrie, a partir des années 1950. Le Drapeau anglais se situe a Budapest, pendant l'insurrection hongroise de 1956, et met en sccne les affres et les détours de la mémoire. LeChercheur de traces raconte le retour d'un homme dans une région ou, longtemps auparavant, ont eu lieu d'indicibles crimes. Et Proccs-verbal relate un voyage de Budapest a Vienne, peu aprcs la chute du mur de Berlin, voyage qui se transforme en uncauchemar bureaucratique. Un triptyque singulier ou le questionnement philosophique c“toie l'amour de la langue et de la forme littéraire. Trois textes d'une rare puissance narrative.

En avril 1945, Budapest est libérée par l'armée russe au terme d'un sicge implacable. Cet épisode historique, que Sandor Marai évoquera vingt-cinq ans plus tard dans ses Mémoires de Hongrie, lui inspire, a chaud, ce roman qu'il achcve en quelques mois.Pendant les dernicres semaines du sicge, une centaine de réfugiés se terrent dans les caves d'un immeuble, attendant l'issue d'un combat incertain. Autour de la jeune Élisabeth, fille d'un savant renommé, résistant au nazisme, se rassemblent toutessortes de gens. Au fil des jours, dans l'atmosphcre oppressante de ce huis clos, les caractcres se révclent, les masques tombent.

Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis'sgirlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will? These seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on theedge of your seat.CEFR B2/C1Word count 26,500

My name is Simon. I'm 10 years old. I'm a serial killer.Robert Stern, a successful defence lawyer, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. To his astonishment, the defendant is a ten-year-old boy - Simon - a fragile childwith a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a former life. Stern's surprise quickly turns to horror as he searches the cellar Simon has directed him to and discovers the skeletal remains of a man, the skull split with an axe - just asSimon told him he would.But this is only the beginning, as Simon tells Stern where to find even more victims whose bodies have lain undisturbed for years. Suddenly, the present feels murderously dangerous as well...

Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbo's antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity.Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neckis his mother's pink scarf.Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he's received and the disappearance of Jonas's mother-and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he isbecoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised-and constantly revised-by the killer.Fiercely suspenseful, its characters brilliantly realized, its atmosphere permeated with evil, The Snowman is the electrifying work of one of the best crime writers of our time.

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Historia del ano y medio de la vida de un adolescente en diversos campos de concentración nazis (experiencia que el autor vivió en propia carne), Sin destino no es, sin embargo, ningún texto autobiográfico. Con la fría objetividad del entomólogo ydesde una distancia irónica, Kertész nos muestra en su historia la hiriente realidad de los campos de exterminio en sus efectos más eficazmente perversos: aquellos que confunden justicia y humillación arbitraria, y la cotidianidad más inhumana con unaforma aberrante de felicidad. Testigo desapasionado, Sin destino es, por encima de todo, gran literatura, y una de las mejores novelas del siglo XX, capaz de dejar una huella profunda e imperecedera en el lector.

A Jég és Tűz dala története egy kitalált világban játszódik a központi Westeros és a keletre fekvő Essos földrészén. A karakterek többsége ember, ám a sorozat előrehaladtával további, a világ népe által rég kihaltnak vélt fajok is megjelennek. Három főcselekményszálon fut a történet: a Westeros uralmáért folytatott dinasztikus polgárháború számos nemesi család között

Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son s well-being, Balder wantsMillennium to publish his story - and it is a terrifying one. More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder s world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker. It seems that Salander, like Balder, is atarget of ruthless cyber gangsters - and a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team, and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves

Mais qu'est-ce donc que ce parapluie miraculeux qui sauve une orpheline de la pleurésie, qui réveille un mort, garde un curé de la ruine, un village de l'abandon, un vieux gar‡on du célibat ? Tout simplement le trésor de Glogova - un village du fin fondde la province hongroise qui semblait quitté de tous et de Dieu meme -, la relique merveilleuse que saint Pierre a envoyée aux Glogovains pour les sortir du désespoir et les préserver de la miscre.

Cecelia Ahern einmal anders: die atmosphärische Novelle der BestsellerautorinHerman Banks hat es vom armen Farmersjungen zum Multimillionär gebracht. Nur ein Wunsch treibt ihn noch um: Er möchte ein Buch schreiben, den groáen, vollendeten Roman - und bezieht deshalb mit seiner jungen Frau das abgelegene Anwesen eines verstorbenenAutors in Südengland. Doch statt Inspiration zu finden, gerät Herman in eine mächtige Schreibblockade. Bis er im Zimmer mit der Kollektion alter Schreibmaschinen etwas Unheimliches vorfindet .