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    <![CDATA[Kein Land für alte Männer]]>
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    <![CDATA[In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed <em>Border Trilogy</em>. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. <br/><br/>One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law&#8211;in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell&#8211;can contain.<br/><br/>As Moss tries to evade his pursuers&#8211;in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives&#8211;McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning&#8217;s headlines. <br/><em>No Country for Old Men</em> is a triumph.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2005</published>
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    <![CDATA[Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Nach den beiden Science-Fiction-Romanen <em>Snow Crash</em> und <em>Diamond Age</em> und dem Kultbuch <em>Cryptonomicon</em> überrascht Neal Stephenson seine Leser ein weiteres Mal: <em>Quicksilver</em> spielt im späten 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhundert und unternimmt nichts weniger als eine Geschichte der aufstrebenden Naturwissenschaften aus der Froschperspektive. <p> Am vornehmen Trinity College hat es Daniel Waterhouse, ein Urahn der gleichnamigen Figur in <em>Cryptonomicon</em>, als Sohn eines armen Puritaners unter lauter Adelssprösslingen schwer. Trotzdem gelingt es ihm, mit dem jungen und genialen Isaac Newton Freundschaft zu schließen. Gemeinsam führen sie riskante -- und oft hahnebüchene -- Experimente durch und machen sich einen Namen als &#147;Naturphilosophen&#148;. <p> Unterdessen versucht der Londoner Herumtreiber Jack Shaftoe -- auch dieser Name ist uns aus <em>Cryptonomicon</em> bekannt -- in den Wirren der Türkenkriege am Leben zu bleiben. Während der Belagerung von Wien im Jahr 1683 gerät er an die Haremssklavin Eliza, die sich nicht nur als äußerst schön, sondern auch als über die Maßen intelligent erweist. Ihre herausragenden kaufmännischen Fähigkeiten ermöglichen ihr alsbald den Aufstieg in höhere Adelskreis, eine &#147;Karriere&#148;, die für eine Frau von einfacher Abstammung allerdings auch einige Gefahren in sich birgt ... <p> Es ist unmöglich, den zahlreichen Figuren und Handlungssträngen dieses Mammutwerkes in wenigen Zeilen gerecht zu werden. Neal Stephenson hat ein kluges, witziges und in jeder Beziehung atemberaubendes Buch geschrieben. <em>Quicksilver</em> ist Historienschmöker, Wissenschafts-Thriller und Schelmenroman -- und lässt sich doch in keiner Schublade unterbringen. Literatur auf diesem Niveau zeigt, wie gegenstandslos Diskussionen über Genrezuordnungen oder E- und U-Literatur eigentlich sind. <p> Auf Englisch sind die beiden Folgebände <em>The Confusion</em> und <em>The System of the World</em> bereits erschienen. Warum der deutsche Verlag beschlossen hat, den Buchtitel im Original zu belassen, ist nicht ganz nachvollziehbar. Trotzdem ist <em>Quicksilver</em> eine hundertprozentige Empfehlung, denn das <em>TIME MAGAZINE</em> hat Recht: &#147;Sie werden sich wünschen, dass das Buch nie zu Ende geht!&#148; <em>--Hannes Riffel</em></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Bis ich dich finde.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Fast möchte man John Irving bedauern. Kaum legt er einen neuen Roman vor (noch immer ein Ereignis, bei dem die literarische Welt den Atem anhält), stürzt sich die vergleichende Irving-Wissenschaft auf das Werk. Ist er wieder in Form? Ein neuer <em>Garp</em>? Besitzt er gar die Größe von <em>Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag</em>? Kann er <em>Owen Meany</em> toppen, <em>Zirkuskind</em> und <em>Die vierte Hand</em>, diese vorübergehende schriftstellerische Talsohle, vergessen machen? Amerika ist, wie man hört, enttäuscht. Aber, warum nur? Vielleicht ist es an der Zeit, die Irving-Richterskala der völlig überzogenen Erwartungen auf Null zurückzustellen, um den Zauber erneut empfinden zu können. Dann nämlich stellte sich sehr schnell heraus, mit welch magischen Erzählkräften Irving uns im Handumdrehen in seine Welt hineinzuziehen vermag. Die traurige Welt von Alice, der schottischen Tätowiererin und Jack Burns, ihrem vierjährigen Sohn. Ein treuloser Liebhaber und Vater wird gesucht.<p>    1.140 Seiten, eine Langstrecke, die bei einem solchen Erzfabulierer leicht ins Uferlose führen kann. Auf Alice' und Jacks einjähriger Spurensuche durch Nordeuropas Hafenmetropolen, Kirchen und Bordelle, in denen der Orgelvirtuose William Burns seine Duftmarke hinterließ, präsentiert Irving -- typisch -- ein Panoptikum skurriler Figuren. Amsterdams Prostituierte, Helsinkis Tätowierer und unzählige blutjunge Chormädchen können ein Lied singen von der Spur, die der charmante Organist hinterlassen hat, der sich auf jeder seiner unseligen Stationen zum lebenden Notenblatt tätowieren lässt. Die schöne Alice, selbst eine Meisterin der Nadel, interviewt deflorierte Mädchen und Orgelnovizen (deren Auskünfte sie schon mal mit kostenlosen Tattoos und Liebesdiensten belohnt). Das Phantom des sexbesessenen flüchtigen Vaters aber ist stets einen Schritt voraus. Zwischen Tatovør-Ole, Herzensbrecher-Lars, Bach, Händel, sowie der halben Amsterdamer Rotlichtbesetzung, wächst der vierjährige Jack in eine merkwürdige Welt hinein.<p>   Im zweiten Teil des Romans findet Klein-Jack sich als einer der wenigen männlichen Schüler in der St. Hilda Mädchenschule in Toronto wieder, Gelegenheit für den in erotischen Dingen ohnehin nie zaghaften Irving, seinem Affen gehörig Zucker zu geben. In dieser sexuell ausgehungerten Umgebung erschließt Emma Oastler, Jacks Tutorin, dem Jungen die tiefere Bedeutung eines der Lieblingsmotive seiner Mutter: Jack darf die &quot;Rose von Jericho&quot; entblättern. Eine Kindheit an der Seite starker älterer Frauen findet seine Entsprechung. Nach Schultheater und einem Ausflug ins Softpornogewerbe (erneut ein Irving-Festival), landet der schöne Jack schließlich als gefeierter Transvestiten-Darsteller in Hollywood (ein Irving-Eldorado der großen Namen). Jahre später wird der erfolgreiche Schauspieler den Auftrag seiner inzwischen verstorbenen Mutter erfüllen. Die Suche nach dem Vater geht weiter. Und zeitigt überraschende Ergebnisse.<p>  Ein überschäumender, zuweilen überkonstruierter und vor allem überlanger Lebensbogen. Dennoch -- vergesst Garp und alle Bären! Wäre dies der Erstling eines unbekannten Schriftstellers, die Jubelfeiern nähmen kein Ende! <em>--Ravi Unger</em></p></p></p>]]>
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    <id>453480</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Dirk van Gunsteren]]></name>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Niederland]]>
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    <![CDATA[In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure who is part idealist and part operator, introduces Hans to an &#8220;other&#8221; New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality. Hans is alternately seduced and instructed by Chuck&#8217;s particular brand of naivete and chutzpah--by his ability to a hold fast to a sense of American and human possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith. <br/><br/><em>Netherland </em>gives us both a flawlessly drawn picture of a little-known New York and a story of much larger, and brilliantly achieved ambition: the grand strangeness and fading promise of 21st century America from an outsider&#8217;s vantage point, and the complicated relationship between the American dream and the particular dreamers. Most immediately, though, it is the story of one man--of a marriage foundering and recuperating in its mystery and ordinariness, of the shallows and depths of male friendship, of mourning and memory.  Joseph O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s prose, in its conscientiousness and beauty, involves us utterly in the struggle for meaning that governs any single life.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Joseph O'Neill]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>2008</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Confusion (Barock-Zyklus, #2)]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold.</p> <p>In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.</p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.]]>
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    <id>748571</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Juliane Gräbener-Müller]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.75</average_rating>
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    <author>
    <id>442586</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Nikolaus Stingl]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Anathem: Roman]]>
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    <![CDATA[El planeta Arbre estuvo al borde del colapso hace miles de años. Los nuevos intelectuales, los avotos, se reunieron en monasterios para iniciar un nuevo tipo de vida de reflexion sin elemento religioso alguno. El ritmo de evolucion y cambio de los avotos es lento, mientras el planeta sufre todo tipo de transformaciones. Ahora, casi cuatro mil años despues de la Reconstitucion y la fundacion del sistema cenobitico, el Poder Secular parece ocultar que hay una nave alienigena orbitando el planeta. Descubrirla, establecer contacto y comprender a esos extraÃ±os seres procedentes de otro lugar es el gran trabajo que espera al protagonista, fra Erasmas, discipulo del heterodoxo Orolo..    /    Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizableyet strangely invertedworld. Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside &quot;&quot;saecular&quot;&quot; world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outsidethe Extramurosfor the last of the terrible times was long, long ago]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Nikolaus Stingl]]></name>
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    <id>748571</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Juliane Gräbener-Müller]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Gegen den Tag]]>
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    <![CDATA[Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.<br/><br/>With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.<br/><br/>The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.<br/><br/>As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.<br/><br/>Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.<br/><br/>--Thomas Pynchon]]>
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    <id>442586</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Nikolaus Stingl]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>35</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>7</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>453480</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Dirk van Gunsteren]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.74</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>53</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>7</text_reviews_count>
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  <isbn13>9783866152625</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Süddeutsche Zeitung Kriminalbibliothek: Topkapi: Bd 38]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin&#8217;s classic film, <strong>Topkapi</strong><em>.</em><br/><br/>When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a  private driver. In other words, the perfect mark for Simpson&#8217;s brand of entrepreneurship. But Harper proves to be more the spider than the fly when he catches Simpson riffling his wallet for traveler&#8217;s checks. Soon Simpson finds himself blackmailed into driving a suspicious car across the Turkish border. Then, when he is caught again, this time by the police, he faces a choice: cooperate with the Turks and spy on his erstwhile colleagues or end up in one of Turkey&#8217;s notorious prisons. The authorities suspect an attempted coup, but Harper and his gang of international jewel thieves have planned something both less sinister and much, much more audacious.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>906</ratings_count>
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        <name><![CDATA[Nikolaus Stingl]]></name>
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    <text_reviews_count>7</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1962</published>
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        <book>
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  <isbn13>9783552054639</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Keiner rennt für immer]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <text_reviews_count>273</text_reviews_count>
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    <id>442586</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Nikolaus Stingl]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>35</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>7</text_reviews_count>
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    <![CDATA[Der wahre Robinson oder Das Walten der Vorsehung. Leben und Abenteuer des Alexander Selkirk]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Nikolaus Stingl]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/442586.Nikolaus_Stingl]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>35</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>7</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1985</published>
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        <book>
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  <isbn>3442545722</isbn>
  <isbn13>9783442545728</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Eine Geschichte von Liebe und Tod]]>
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    <id>282616</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Edgardo Vega Yunque]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/282616.Edgardo_Vega_Yunque]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.89</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>91</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>19</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>442586</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Nikolaus Stingl]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/442586.Nikolaus_Stingl]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>35</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>7</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2005</published>
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