Алессандро Периссинотто3.7 Талантливый молодой программист Лука Барберис в состоянии аффекта совершает жестокое убийство. Ему удается покинуть Италию. Уверенный, что его никогда не найдут, Лука шлет мейлы судье-следователю, ведущему его дело, Джулии Амброзини. Она отвечает, и постепенно переписка затягивается их обоих. Вместе им удается распутать грандиозное мошенничество, совершенное при помощи Интернета. Тем временем в Италии происходят новые убийства, связанные с этим делом. Наконец им открывается страшная правда…
Rosa Montero0.0 This novel, essay and/or autobiography is a journey through the mystery of fantasies, of artistic creation and Montero's most secret memories. She undertakes a trip to her inner self in a narrative game full of surprises. It is a magician's hat from which she reveals amazing and unexpected events. In this book, she mixes literature and life in an aphrodisiacal cocktail of other people's biographies and a semi-fictional autobiography. This is, above all, a torrid story of love and salvation between her and her imagination.
Dương Thu Hương0.0 Now available for the first time in North America, Huongs first novel is a brilliantly spun tale of a young woman who marries her professor because she so admires his idealism. When he sells out everything he believes in order to support her, her love goes. Only when they are both beyond illusions can they try again for a real relationship. Deeply lyrical and wholly believable, this early novel is illuminated by the haunting language and unflinching honesty that have led critics to hail Huong
Thomas Hettche4.0 A compelling international thriller that explores the terrain between erotic love and death
On a warm September evening in 1953 Hans Arbogast, a young travelling salesman, picks up a hitchhiker, a refugee from East Germany. As dusk fall they make passionate love in a meadow. And then she is dead, her body found nestled against blackberry brambles. Even though the evidence is inconclusive, Arbogast is tried for murder, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment, all the while protesting his innocence. But Germany during the postwar years has no tolerance for scandal; all appeals are denied. For the next fourteen years he grows to inhabit his cell like a second skin, until finally a journalist, lawyer, and forensic pathologist from East Berlin set out to reexamine the evidence and have the case reopened.
Inspired by an actual criminal case that caused a furor at the time, The Arbogast Case elegantly weaves dramatic courtroom scenes with detailed forensic descriptions and authentic details of the grim postwar era. The result is a compelling legal thriller in which erotic love and death are intimately intertwined, by a young German writer whose lyrical style and utter originality have brought him renown throughout Europe and is now being published in English for the first time.
