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Netherland / druk 1
2024 || Paperback || Joseph O’Neill || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal.
The Lowland
Shortlisted for The Booker Prize and The Women's Prize for Fiction
2022 || Paperback || Jhumpa Lahiri || Bloomsbury Publishing
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013From 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 r...
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Le gone du Chaaba
2022 || Paperback || Begag Azouz e.a. || Seuil
Season of Migration to the North
2003 || Paperback || Tayeb Salih || Penguin Books Ltd
The story of a man undone by a culture that in part created him, Season of Migration to the North, is a powerful and evocative examination of colonization in two vastly different worlds. When a young man returns to his village in the Sudan after many years studying in Europe, he finds that among the familiar faces there is now a stranger - the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. As the two become friends, Mustafa tells the younger man the disturbing story of his own life in London after the First World...
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Americanah
2024 || Undefined || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || Harper Collins UK
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' a powerful story of love, race and identity.As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of ba...
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Tea Time for the Traditionally Built / druk 1
'Totally addictive' Daily Mail
2024 || Paperback || Alexander McCall Smith || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Book 10 in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
2024 || Paperback || Raymond Carver || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK.
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Green Grass, Running Water
2022 || Paperback || Thomas King || Bantam Doubleday
Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam proje...
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Deluxe edition Hardback
The Sunday Times Bestseller
2024 || Hardcover || Taylor Jenkins Reid || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
From the author of Daisy Jones & The Six in which a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.
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Hate U Give
2018 || Paperback || Angie Thomas || Walker Books
Movie tie-in edition of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox, starring Amandla Stenberg
No. 1 New York Times bestseller
"A classic in the making." The Times
"Places a spotlight on Black Lives Matter." Stylist
"Passionate and uncompromising." The Observer
"A must-read." The Pool
"Outstanding." The Guardian
"Powerful." Metro
Read the book that inspired the movie! Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she wa...