International Bookseller 2-2018

Oktober / Fiction
Murakami, Haruki: Killing Commendatore. A novel. Die
Ermordung des Commendatore - Eine Idee erscheint.
An unnamed thirtysomething portrait painter becomes
caretaker of the home of an aging famous artist, Tomohiko
Amada. When the younger man discovers an unknown
painting in the attic, he also discovers clues about Amada,
his family, and their involvement in a violent and failed plot
to kill a Nazi leader in Vienna.
608 S, ISBN: 978‐0‐525‐52004‐7 (Random House US;
Knopf) GEB
69 59 57 05 26,95 € (D)
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Olsson, Kristina: Shell.
Sydney, 1960s: reporter Pearl Keogh has been relegated
to the women‘s pages as punishment. Axel Lindquist is
working as a sculptor on the Sydney Opera House, haunted
by his past and seeking to create a unique piece that
will do justice to the controversial architect of the Opera
House. Pearl and Axel‘s lives orbit and collide, as they both
struggle in the eye of the storm.
Export/Airside, Paperback ‐ Trade paperback (UK), 400
S, Format 234 mm. ISBN: 978‐1‐4711‐7263‐2 (Simon &
Schuster UK; Scribner UK) KT
69 14 38 88 15,95 € (D)
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Perry, Sarah: Melmoth.
Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot
forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since
barricading herself against its memory. When a strange
manuscript comes into her possession, its contents have
the power to unravel every strand of her fragile safety
net. Exquisitely written, and gripping until the last page,
MELMOTH is a masterpiece of moral complexity
Trade Paperback, 288 S, Format 234 mm.
ISBN: 978‐1‐78816‐066‐7 (Profile Books; Serpent‘s Tail) KT
69 13 07 70 18,45 € (D)
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Picoult, Jodi: A Spark of Light.
The warm fall day starts like any other at The Center,
a women’s reproductive health services clinic. Then a
desperate gunman opens fire, taking all inside hostage.
Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, rushes to the
scene. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages,
he glances at it, and to his horror, finds out that his fifteen
year old daughter, Wren, is inside.
400 S, Format 234 mm. ISBN: 978‐1‐4447‐8813‐6 (Hodder
& Stoughton) KT
69 12 87 32 14,95 € (D)
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Picoult, Jodi: A Spark of Light. A Novel.
At Mississippi‘s sole remaining women‘s reproductive
services clinic, a gunman bursts in and takes hostage of
its patients and staff. As the book moves backward in
time, each chapter set one hour earlier than the next, we
learn how all these people and their stories are unwittingly
connected.
384 S, ISBN: 978‐1‐984817‐31‐0 (Random House US;
Ballantine Books) KT
69 59 56 81 17,95 € (D)
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Rosnay, Tatiana de: The Rain Watcher.
The first new novel in four years from the beloved
superstar author of Sarah‘s Key. The Rain Watcher is a
powerful family drama set in Paris as the Malegarde family
gathers to celebrate the father‘s 70th birthday. Their
hidden fears and secrets are slowly unraveled as the City
of Light undergoes a stunning natural disaster.
240 S, ISBN: 978‐1‐250‐20001‐3 (Macmillan US) GEB
69 59 30 78 27,95 € (D)
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Schiller, Friedrich von: The Ghost-Seer. Der
Geisterseher.
First serialized in 1787–89, this multilayered, fragmentary
novel – which gave Friedrich Schiller a platform to expound
his Enlightenment ideas on society and religion – has
thrilled and engaged lovers of Gothic literature for over two
centuries.
Format 198 mm. ISBN: 978‐1‐84749‐758‐1 (Bloomsbury
Trade; Alma Classics) KT
69 70 26 90 11,10 € (D)
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Small, David: Home After Dark. A Novel.
Told almost entirely through thousands of spliced
images, once again “employ[ing] angled shots and silent
montages worthy of Alfred Hitchcock” (Washington Post,
on Stitches (ISBN 978 0 393 33896 6)), Home After Dark
becomes a new form of literature in this shocking graphic
interpretation of cinema verité.
400 S, Format 229 mm. ISBN: 978‐0‐87140‐315‐5
(Norton) GEB
69 13 09 54 24,45 € (D)
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Smith, Ali: Winter. Seasonal quartet – from the Man
Booker Prize-shortlisted author.
Dark yet life-affirming, endlessly inventive and heartbreakingly
human – the next novel in the ‚Seasonal‘ cycle,
following the Man Booker-shortlisted AUTUMN. Now in
Paperback. Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone,
so the old song goes. But winter makes things visible. And
Christmas is a time for family reunions, unexpected guests
and evergreen truths.
208 S, Format 198 mm. ISBN: 978‐0‐241‐97333‐2
(Penguin UK; Penguin) KT
69 14 49 54 12,50 € (D)
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Sparks, Nicholas: Every Breath. Wo wir uns finden.
Hope Anderson is 36 and she‘s been dating her boyfriend
for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her
father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a
week at her family‘s cottage in Sunset Beach. Tru Walls
is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter from a man
claiming to be his father. When the two strangers cross
paths, their connection is as electric as it is unfathomable.
320 S, Format 234 mm. ISBN: 978‐0‐7515‐6776‐2 (Little,
Brown Book Group; Sphere) KT
69 12 86 27 15,95 € (D)
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