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  • The Reunion

    by Lotte Kirkeby Hansen ...
    Translated by Paul Larkin ...
    Visceral and poetic, these short stories reveal everyday miracles and trivialities, human desires and anxieties in a very recognizable reality. The woman who cooks soup for the lover whose fidelity she questions, the man who loses courage when faced with the birth of his child, the married couple who know they have embarked on their last summer together.In English for the first time, readers of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Liar

    by Martin A. Hansen ...
    Translated by Paul Larkin ...
    Delicately attuned to the complexities of both the natural world and human psychology, this potent classic of twentieth-century Danish literature is narrated by an isolated schoolteacher stuck in a mire of loneliness, deception, and spiritual despair.One of the greatest works of modern Scandinavian fiction, The Liar tells the story of Johannes Lye, a teacher and parish clerk on tiny Sand Island ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Running in the Shadows of the Gods

    by Paul Larkins ...
    ‘Running in the Shadows of the Gods’ recounts how one runner dreamt of following the greats of British athletics. It also explores how the 1980s defined the way we see athletics today. In his book, Paul Larkins recounts what it was like to watch Seb Coe and Steve Ovett on TV, racing in far-flung stadiums on their way to world records before finally competing against them himself. Occasionally he ... Read more

    $5.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The White Bear

    by Henrik Pontoppidan ...
    Translated by Paul Larkin ...
    Love, faith, and the political mingle in these two short novels by a Nobel Prize-winning Danish author. One about a young couple making a new life in Rome, the other about a priest who goes to live among native peoples in Greenland, both books explore the reaches of the human heart through their complex and unforgettable characters.Henrik Pontoppidan, the Danish Nobel laureate, is admired for the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Decision Making for Sports Officials

    Training and Assessment Perspectives

    by Ian Cunningham, Aden Kittel, Duncan Mascarenhas, Clare MacMahon, Paul Larkin ...
    Series series Routledge Psychology of Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity
    This essential guidebook provides a comprehensive, holistic, and evidence-based account for improving the decision making of sports officials across different sports and levels. By combining cutting-edge research with practical strategies, this book provides fundamental frameworks for developing decision-making skills that support the needs of officials themselves, officiating educators, sport ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Fortunate Man

    by Henrik Pontoppidan ...
    Translated by Paul Larkin ...
    **A Nobel Prize-winner's unforgettable novel about a man who sheds the stifling country life of his childhood for the excitement of Copenhagen.This masterpiece of Danish literature, admired by the likes of Georg Lukács and Ernst Bloch, is now available in a new English translation.**A Fortunate Man tells the story of Per Sidenius, a Lutheran pastor's son who revolts against his family and flees ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Reunion

    by Lotte Kirkeby Hansen, Lotte Kirkeby Hansen ...
    Narrated by Sofia Engstrand ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 19 min

    Visceral and poetic, these short stories reveal everyday miracles and trivialities, human desires and anxieties in a very recognizable reality. The woman who cooks soup for the lover whose fidelity she questions, the man who loses courage when faced with the birth of his child, the married couple who know they have embarked on their last summer together.In English for the first time, readers of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Hunger

    by Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad ...
    Translated by Sverre Lyngstad ...
    A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner’s first and most important novelFirst published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on “an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of ... Read more

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  • Time No Longer

    A Novel

    by Taylor Caldwell ...
    On the eve of World War II, twin brothers are divided by the murder of a German Jew, in this epic tale from a #1 New York Times– bestselling author."Superb, magnificent, written at white heat." — Philadelphia InquirerKarl Erlich loves his country. But these are dangerous times for Germany, whose poor and downtrodden have been seduced by an Austrian sign painter named Adol... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Side

    by Alfred Kubin ...
    The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconcious, or as Kubin himself called it, 'a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us'. Written in 1908, and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka, it was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the ... Read more

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  • A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories

    by Robert Walser ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser’s first book, “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Stories of Five Decades

    by Hermann Hesse ...
    A Literary Titan's Evolution: Tracing Hermann Hesse's Development Through Rare and Captivating Short StoriesThis collection of twenty-three stories (twenty available in English for the first time) spans nearly half a century of Stories of Five Decades, offering a rare glimpse into the literary evolution of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse. Arranged chronologically from 1899 to 1948, these tales ... Read more

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