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A powerful collection of linked stories about the entwined lives of masters and servants set in PakistanIn Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the...

A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADLegends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle.But prophecy spoke of a time when he...

Für Detective Deckers Verhältnisse ist es zwar ein hässliches, aber vergleichsweise harmloses Verbrechen: Der Highsociety-Sprössling Ernesto Golding hat die Synagoge geschändet, zu der auch Decker und seine Ehefrau Rina gehören. Täter geständig, Fall erledigt? So einfach ist es nicht. Denn kurz darauf wird Ernesto brutal ermordet. Tatort ist ein...

A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead, and the avarice of the town's survivors. In 'The Diamond Mine' a woman...

John Man follows the trail of the alphabet from its origins in Ancient Egypt to its present form, and considers how it shaped the western world.The idea behind the alphabet #8212; that language with all its wealth of meaning can be recorded with a few meaningless signs #8212; is an extraordinary one. So extraordinary, in fact, that it has occurred...

Donna Tartt's long-awaited second novel (published 10 years after THE SECRET HISTORY) begins with the murder of a 9-year-old boy, which is never solved. Twelve years later, the family is still stunned and bereft, stuck in time--except for Harriet, the boy's younger sister, who is convinced she knows who committed the crime and intends to expose the...