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Just Kids

A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists--Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art. In 1967, a chance meeting between...

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Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Kategorier: Skönlitteratur

Utgivningsår: 2010

Författare: Patti Smith,

Just kids

'It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The...

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Förlag: Penguin books ltd

Kategorier: Skönlitteratur

Utgivningsår: 2010

Författare: Patti Smith,

Eat, pray, love

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and...

Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Kategorier: Skönlitteratur

Utgivningsår: 2007

Författare: Elizabeth Gilbert,

Pao

Richly imagined and utterly captivating, Pao is a dazzling tale of race, class and colour, love and ambition, and a country at a historical crossroads.

Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Kategorier: Skönlitteratur

Utgivningsår: 2012

Författare: Kerry Young,

Dreams of Joy

Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite...

Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Kategorier: Skönlitteratur

Utgivningsår: 2012

Författare: Lisa See,

The Quiet Twin

Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. But these are uncharitable times and one must be careful where one probes...When an unexpected house...

Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Kategorier: Skönlitteratur

Utgivningsår: 2012

Författare: Dan Vyleta,

I Shall Not Hate

Heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor's inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza...

Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Kategorier: Skönlitteratur

Utgivningsår: 2012

Författare: Izzeldin Abuelaish,

Jack Holmes and His Friend

Jack Holmes is in love. The other men he takes to bed never last long, and it doesn't look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls in love with. Sadly for him, his feelings are not...

Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Kategorier: Skönlitteratur

Utgivningsår: 2012

Författare: Edmund White,

Pigeon English

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011 Deeply funny, moving, idiosyncratic and unforgettable, Pigeon English introduces a major new literary talent Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second...

Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Kategorier: Skönlitteratur

Utgivningsår: 2012

Författare: Stephen Kelman,

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what Chinese parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like...

Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Kategorier: Skönlitteratur

Utgivningsår: 2011

Författare: Amy Chua,

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