Eugène Dabekaussen Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Court physician Robert Merivel has a middle age crisis and sets off for Versailles where he meets Madame de Flamanville, a Swiss botanist, and rescues a captive bear to take back to Bidnold Manor.

At the heart of this story is an interracial couple, Steven and Jabulile, living in a 'free' South Africa. He is a university lecturer and she is a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.

Set among the hills and gorges of the Cevennes, the dark and beautiful heartland of southern France, 'Trespass' is a novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge.

Ian Buruma's epic novel is the richly imagined story of one woman's struggle to survive in the face of war and occupation in the Far East during the Second World War. It should appeal to anyone who loved Memoirs of a Geisha. 'Spare, elegant... Buruma's writing is wonderful... So beautifully executed that the reader is swept along.' Vanora Bennett, The Times

One of the most popular and influential painters to emerge from turn-of-the-century Vienna finds expression here with a full catalog of the artist's work, as well as a full accounting of his life, including his early childhood, his shaky encounters with the upper classes, his sexual adventures, and his arrest on a morals charge.10,000 first printing.

Nominee for the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp. From Publishers Weekly Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Mnohovrstevným životním příběhem "Maura" Moraese Zogoibyho, příslušníka bombajské obchodnické dynastie, potvrzuje světoznámý britský prozaik indického původu znovu svou pověst originálního vypravěče a brilantního stylisty. Moraesovu tragickou i komickou románovou zpověď je možné vnímat jako složitý organismus vzniklý prolínáním a vrstvením několika rovin reality a textu, jako nemilosrdný portrét moderní Indie i jako výkřik neukotvené duše toužící po životní autenticitě, nikdy však nepřestává uchvacovat svou invencí a vášnivým zaujetím....

Navrácená milost je historický román z prostředí Anglie druhé poloviny 17. stol., doby, kdy po pádu Cromwellova protektorátu zemi opět vládne král – Karel II. Do královy blízkosti se náhodou dostane nadaný, byť poněkud nezodpovědný student medicíny Robert Merivel. Panovník si ho oblíbí, ale protože má lékařů dost, udělá z něj svého šaška a rozhodne se ho využít i jinak – Robert se musí oženit s jeho metresou Célií Clemencovou. Sám se jí však nikdy nesmí dotknout jako manžel. Aby zbytečně neupadal v pokušení, odstěhuje ho Karel na přidělený zámek na severu. Když se však Célie králi znelíbí a je poslána za manželem, Robert zjistí, že své zakázané choti nedokáže odolat, a za svou slabost musí podstoupit trest. Ten ho ale nezlomí, naopak, udělá z něho lepšího člověka. Filmová adaptace oceněna dvěma Oscary.

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.

Examines seventeenth-century Dutch life, history, and culture.