Book of the Month

Dinosaurs | lydia millet | 9781324021469

Dinosaurs

lydia millet

€ 22,95

Through close observation of human and animal life in the desert, Lydia Millet writes about human society without losing sight of the difference one person can make in the world, and asks: Can a person be good? Dinosaurs is a compelling, tender, and beautifully told novel about a wealthy white man who is doing his best to be a good person every day, making connections with others, and helping those around him. How wonderful  to read a positive novel for a change!

Winner Booker Prize 2022

The seven moons of maali almeida | Shehan Karunatilaka | 9781908745903

The seven moons of maali almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka

€ 24,95

A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka. 

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Winner Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022

The book of form and emptiness | Ruth Ozeki | 9781838855277

The book of form and emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

€ 14,99
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. A brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being. After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. When ignoring them doesn't work, Benny seeks refuge in the silence of a large public library. There he meets a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret; a homeless philosopher-poet who encourages him to find his own voice amongst the many; and his very own Book, who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. Blending unforgettable characters with everything from jazz to climate change to our attachment to material possessions, this is classic Ruth Ozeki - bold, humane and heartbreaking.

International Booker Prize 2022

Tomb of sand | geetanjali shree | 9781911284611

Tomb of sand

geetanjali shree

€ 17,99

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention – including striking up a friendship with a hijra (trans) woman – confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more 'modern' of the two. At the older woman's insistence they travel back to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist.

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