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Published by Mariner Books, 2014
ISBN 10: 0544292669ISBN 13: 9780544292666
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Published by Faber & Faber, 2013
ISBN 10: 0571294278ISBN 13: 9780571294275
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2013
ISBN 10: 0547934874ISBN 13: 9780547934877
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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ISBN 10: 0857527525ISBN 13: 9780857527523
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Published by Faber & Faber, 2013
ISBN 10: 0571294251ISBN 13: 9780571294251
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Published by Bolinda Audio, 2013
ISBN 10: 1743155409ISBN 13: 9781743155400
Seller: Bookmans, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
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Published by Penguin, 2023
ISBN 10: 1804991546ISBN 13: 9781804991541
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Published by Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 0571313957ISBN 13: 9780571313952
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Derek B. Miller's striking follow up to his much-loved, John Creasey Dagger-winning, Norwegian by Night. The Girl in Green takes us deep into modern Iraq, where British journalist Thomas Benton and relief worker Marta Strom are persuaded by ex-US soldier Arwood Hobbes to embark on what may be a fools' errand in a last-chance effort to atone for their failure to save a local girl more than twenty years previously, following Operation Desert Storm. Set against the shattered landscape and broken heart of Iraq, The Girl in Green is an adventure story told with all the wit, humanity and insight of Miller's acclaimed debut. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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ISBN 10: 0857527517ISBN 13: 9780857527516
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Published by Penguin, 2023
ISBN 10: 1529176859ISBN 13: 9781529176858
Seller: WeBuyBooks 2, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Published by Quercus Publishing, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 0857059394ISBN 13: 9780857059390
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Love, suspense, nature and superstition are woven together in this powerful novel" MAJA LUNDE, author of The History of Bees"Lars Mytting writes with an insight, empathy and integrity few others can match" JO NESBO"An exquisitely atmospheric novel . . . The Bell in the Lake does what fiction promises: to steal you away to another world and ask you, if unfairly, to leave a little of your heart behind" DEREK B. MILLER, author of Norwegian by Night"Lyrical, melancholy and with beautifully drawn characters, this pitches old beliefs against new ways with a haunting delicacy that rings true." DAILY MAILTHE TIMES' "Historical Fiction Book of the Month"The first in a rich historical trilogy that draws on legend, by a literary craftsman and the author of The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Norway, 1880. Winter is hard in Butangen, a village secluded at the end of a valley. The lake has frozen, and for months the ground is too hard to bury the dead. Astrid Hekne dreams of a life beyond all this, beyond marriage, children, and working the land to the end of her days. Then Pastor Kai Schweigaard takes over the small parish, with its 700-year-old stave church carved with pagan deities. The two bells in the tower were forged by Astrid's forefather in the sixteenth century, in memory of conjoined twins Halfrid and Gunhild Hekne. They are said to hold supernatural powers. The villagers are wary of the pastor and his resolve to do away with their centuries-old traditions, though Astrid also finds herself drawn to him. And then a stranger arrives from Dresden, with grand plans for the church itself. For headstrong Astrid this may be a provocation too far.Talented architecture student Gerhard Schonauer is an improbable figure in this rugged community. Astrid has never met anyone like him; he seems so different, so sensitive. She finds that she must make a choice: for her homeland and the pastor, or for an uncertain future in Germany. Then the bells begin to ring . . .Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah DawkinWith the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union The first novel in a thrilling Norwegian historical trilogy - by the author of The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Transworld Publishers Ltd, London, 2019
ISBN 10: 1784163295ISBN 13: 9781784163297
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A thrilling race-against-time crime, a personal journey through grief and a meditation on the world in which we live, American By Day shows Derek B Miller (author of Norwegian By Night) to be one of the most imaginative and entertaining writers working today.'This book reminds me of the things that crime fiction can do when it works well . Miller isn't afraid to write characters who are opinionated. They don't hold their tongue about what they believe in, they let rip. People are angry, people are passionate. I love the unorthodoxy of it, I suppose. It's not what you expect it to be." Val McDermidShe knew it was a weird place. She'd heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid deg rd has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African-American academic.America.And not someplace interesting, either- upstate New York.Plunged into a United States where race and identity, politics and promise, reverberate in every aspect of daily life. To find her older brother, she needs the help of the local police who appear to have already made up their minds about the case. Working with - or, if necessary, against - someone actually named Sheriff Irving 'Irv' Wylie, she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the back woods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before it's too late.Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2019 Working with - or, if necessary, against someone actually named Sheriff Irving 'Irv' Wylie, she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the back woods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before it's too late.Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award 2019 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Mariner Books, (2014), 2014
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
1st trade paperback printing. An award winning literary thriller: "Sheldon Horowitz widowed, impatient, impertinent has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway a country with one thousand Jews, not one of them a former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway." Winner of the Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award and included on many lists of best books of the year. 290 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
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Published by Scribe Publications, Carlton North, 2013
ISBN 10: 1922070424ISBN 13: 9781922070425
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Sheldon Horowitz - 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable - is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. Sheldon is an ex-Marine, and he feels responsible for his son's death in Vietnam. Recently widowed and bereft, he talks to the ghosts of his past constantly. To Norway's cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind. He'd heard the boy's eastern European mother being murdered, and he's determined to protect the child from the killer and his Balkan gang. With an endearing combination of dexterity and daring, Sheldon manages to elude the police in what is hostile, foreign territory for him. But what he doesn't know is that the police and the gang both know where he's heading. Norwegian by Night is the last adventure of a man coming to terms with the tragedy of his own life as he tries to save another's. It combines laconic, deadpan humour, moral seriousness, visceral grief, and narrative tension in a remarkable way. An extraordinary debut, featuring a memorable hero. 'Thoughtful, complex, gripping and very funny.' The Sydney Morning Herald 'Humane, Blackly funny, heart-breaking . Brilliant.' Herald Sun 'It is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful novels you will read this year.' ABC Radio Sheldon Horowitz -- 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable -- is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. Sheldon is an ex-Marine, and he feels responsible for his son's death in Vietnam. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2024
ISBN 10: 1668020882ISBN 13: 9781668020883
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. From the Dagger Award-winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult--for fans of All the Light We Cannot See. August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed "Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican," rescues Massimo and brings him up the mountain to serve as his assistant in preserving the treasures that lay within the monastery walls. But can Massimo believe what Pietro is saying, particularly when Massimo has secrets too? Who is this extraordinary man? When it becomes evident that Montecassino will soon become the front line in the war, Pietro Houdini and Massimo execute a plan to smuggle three priceless Titian paintings to safety down the mountain. They are joined by a nurse concealing a nefarious past, a cafe owner turned murderer, a wounded but chipper German soldier, and a pair of lovers along with their injured mule, Ferrari. Together they will lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill, and sin their way through battlefields to survive, all while smuggling the Renaissance masterpieces and the bag full of ancient Greek gold they have rescued from the "safe keeping" of the Germans. Heartfelt, powerfully engaging, and in the tradition of City of Thieves by David Benioff, The Curse of Pietro Houdini is a work of storytelling bravado: a thrilling action-packed adventure heist, an imaginative chronicle of forgotten history, and a philosophical coming-of-age epic where a child navigates one of the most enigmatic and morally complex fronts of World War II and lives to tell the tale. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Quercus Publishing, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 0857059378ISBN 13: 9780857059376
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. "Love, suspense, nature and superstition are woven together in this powerful novel" MAJA LUNDE, author of The History of Bees"Lars Mytting writes with an insight, empathy and integrity few others can match" JO NESBO"An exquisitely atmospheric novel . . . The Bell in the Lake does what fiction promises: to steal you away to another world and ask you, if unfairly, to leave a little of your heart behind" DEREK B. MILLER, author of Norwegian by Night"Lyrical, melancholy and with beautifully drawn characters, this pitches old beliefs against new ways with a haunting delicacy that rings true." DAILY MAILTHE TIMES' "Historical Fiction Book of the Month"The first in a rich historical trilogy that draws on legend, by a literary craftsman and the author of The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Norway, 1880. Winter is hard in Butangen, a village secluded at the end of a valley. The lake has frozen, and for months the ground is too hard to bury the dead. Astrid Hekne dreams of a life beyond all this, beyond marriage, children, and working the land to the end of her days. Then Pastor Kai Schweigaard takes over the small parish, with its 700-year-old stave church carved with pagan deities. The two bells in the tower were forged by Astrid's forefather in the sixteenth century, in memory of conjoined twins Halfrid and Gunhild Hekne. They are said to hold supernatural powers. The villagers are wary of the pastor and his resolve to do away with their centuries-old traditions, though Astrid also finds herself drawn to him. And then a stranger arrives from Dresden, with grand plans for the church itself. For headstrong Astrid this may be a provocation too far.Talented architecture student Gerhard Schonauer is an improbable figure in this rugged community. Astrid has never met anyone like him; he seems so different, so sensitive. She finds that she must make a choice: for her homeland and the pastor, or for an uncertain future in Germany. Then the bells begin to ring . . .Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah DawkinDeborah Dawkin originally trained in theatre at Drama Centre, London, before turning to translation. Her translations include The Blue Room by Hanne Orstavik and Buzz Aldrin: What Happened to You in All the Confusion by Johan Harstad, shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Awards in 2012. She is the co-translator of eight plays by Ibsen for Penguin Classics.With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union The first novel in a thrilling Norwegian historical trilogy - by the author of The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Transworld Publishers Ltd, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 0857529269ISBN 13: 9780857529268
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The compelling and heartrending new novel from the award-winning author of Norwegian By Night and How To Find Your Way In The DarkWe will lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill, and sin our way to Napoli. We will trust no one but each other, and we will remember that in this place, at this time, there is no way to tell friend from foe.The bombing of Rome in 1943 leaves fourteen-year-old Massimo orphaned and with no choice but to set out on a perilous journey to find his remaining family in Naples. A chance meeting with the mysterious and charismatic Pietro Houdini will deliver both of them to the doors of the monastery of Monte Cassino, a centuries-old haven of contemplation, learning and art.But the abbey is in the path of the relentless Allied advance to Rome. Pietro and Massimo need a plan to survive the coming onslaught and that means out-manoeuvring the Germans who are as interested in the abbey's art collection as in the murder of two of their officers in the town below.For their plan to work, they must dissemble, disguise, and outwit two armies using skills that Pietro has in spades, but as war edges ever closer, it becomes clear that Massimo is not without a surprise or two either.The Curse of Pietro Houdini is a sweeping tale of resilience, hope and survival which is at once an action-packed adventure heist, an imaginative chronicle of forgotten history and a philosophical coming-of-age story. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Scribe Publications, Carlton North, 2016
ISBN 10: 1925106950ISBN 13: 9781925106954
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the author of Norwegian by Night comes a new novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before.1991. Near Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones, in part to avoid his lacklustre marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Hobbes is a Midwestern American private who might be an insufferable ignoramus, or might be a brilliant lunatic with a death wish - it's hard to tell. Operation Desert Storm is over, peace has been declared, but as they argue about whether it makes sense to cross the nearest border in search of an ice cream, they become embroiled in a horrific attack in which a young local girl in a green dress is shot in the back and dies in Hobbes's arms. The two men walk away into their respective lives. But something has cracked for them both.Twenty-two years later, in another place, in another war, the two men meet again. Benton and relief worker M rta Str m are persuaded by a much-changed Hobbes to embark on what may be a fool's errand in a last-chance effort to redeem themselves when the girl in green is found alive and in need of salvation. Or is she?Set against the war-torn landscape of a shattered Iraq, The Girl in Green is an adventure story told with all the wit, humanity, and insight of Miller's acclaimed debut. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2018
ISBN 10: 1328876659ISBN 13: 9781328876652
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Miller, Derek B. American by day: a novel. First edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2018. Hardback, VG+ in unclipped dustjacket with very minor shelfwear to top edge. Two-tone red and blue boards with silver lettering to spine. Binding strong and tight. 334pp., contents clean and bright. A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid - the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night - from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother. Refreshingly funny, slyly perceptive, American by Day secures Derek B. Miller's place as one of our most imaginative and entertaining novelists (Book Browse. com). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
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Published by New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013., 2013
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
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First edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) An award winning literary thriller: "Sheldon Horowitz widowed, impatient, impertinent has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway a country with one thousand Jews, not one of them a former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway." Winner of the Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award and included on many lists of best books of the year. 290 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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Published by Espasa., 2013
ISBN 10: 8467038306ISBN 13: 9788467038309
Seller: Alcaná Libros, Madrid, Spain
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tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Literatura inglesa. Novela. Siglo XX. (821.111(73)-31"19") Espasa. Barcelona. 2013. 23 cm. 301 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Espasa narrativa'. Traducción de Aleix Montoto. Título original: Norwegian by night . ISBN: 9788467038309 (=2997014=) JS42.
Published by Scribe, 2012
ISBN 10: 1921844884ISBN 13: 9781921844881
Seller: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Good. All orders are dispatched the following working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004, we have over 500,000 books in stock. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied.
Published by Doubleday Random House UK, 2018
ISBN 10: 0857525379ISBN 13: 9780857525376
Seller: AHA-BUCH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager - 'Derek B Miller writes the kind of crime fiction the world needs right now. Principled, but not afraid to get down and dirty - and shot through with some of the sharpest humour you're likely to find.' Joseph Knox, bestselling author of SirensShe knew it was a weird place. She'd heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African-American academic.America.And not someplace interesting, either: upstate New York.It is election season, 2008, and Sigrid is plunged into a United States where race and identity, politics and promise, reverberate in every aspect of daily life.To find her older brother, she needs the help of the local police who appear to have already made up their minds about the case. Working with - or, if necessary, against - someone actually named Sheriff Irving 'Irv' Wylie, she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the back woods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before events escalate further.At once a thrilling race-against-time crime story, a personal journey through grief and a meditation on the world in which we live, American By Day once again shows Derek B Miller to be one of the most imaginative, ingenious and entertaining writers working today. 352 pp. Englisch.
Published by Bolinda Audio, 2014
ISBN 10: 1486209130ISBN 13: 9781486209132
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
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Published by Mariner Books, 2019
ISBN 10: 1328585085ISBN 13: 9781328585080
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid--the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night--from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother.She knew it was a weird place. She'd heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African American academic--America.Sigrid is plunged into a United States where race and identity, politics and promise, reverberate in every aspect of daily life. Working with--or, if necessary, against--the police, she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the backwoods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before events escalate further.Refreshingly funny, slyly perceptive, American by Day is 'a superb novel on all levels' (Times, UK).'Ingenious. Humorous. Wonderful.'--Lee Child.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2018
ISBN 10: 1328745503ISBN 13: 9781328745507
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the award-winning author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before. 1991: One hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones in part to avoid his lackluster marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Arwood is an American private who might be an insufferable ignoramus or might be a genuine lunatic with a death wish--it's hard to tell. Desert Storm is over, peace has been declared, but as they argue about whether it makes sense to cross the nearest border in search of an ice cream, they become embroiled in a horrific attack in which a young local girl in a green dress is killed as they are trying to protect her. The two men walk away into their respective lives. But something has cracked for them both. Twenty-two years later, in another place, in another war, they meet again and are offered an unlikely opportunity to redeem themselves when that same girl in green is found alive and in need of salvation. Or is she? “A compelling combination of literate storytelling and action-packed thriller laced with humor. -- Library Journal (starred review) From the award-winning author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Published by HMH Books, 2021
ISBN 10: 0358269601ISBN 13: 9780358269601
Seller: buchversandmimpf2000, Emtmannsberg, BAYE, Germany
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Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut - ungelesen,als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet, mit leichten Mängeln an Schnitt oder Einband durch Lager- oder Transportschaden -'[Miller's] character portraits are indelible, often heartbreaking. At times this novel moved me to tears, the highest possible compliment.'-New York Times Book Review With the wit and scope of Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Derek B. Miller tackles his most ambitious epic yet. At its heart is the return of Sheldon Horowitz, the protagonist from Miller's award-winning first novel, Norwegian by Night, who was lauded by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo as 'one of the most memorable characters . . . that I've encountered in years.' MEET SHELDON IN THE MORNING OF HIS LIFE Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts. It is 1938, and Sheldon, who was in the truck, emerges from the crash an orphan hell-bent on revenge. He takes that fire with him to Hartford, where he embarks on a new life under the roof of his buttoned-up Uncle Nate. Sheldon, his teenage cousins Abe and Mirabelle, and his best friend, Lenny, will contend with tradition and orthodoxy, appeasement and patriotism, mafia hitmen and angry accordion players, all while World War II takes center stage alongside a hurricane in New England and comedians in the Catskills. With his eye always on vengeance for his father's murder, Sheldon stakes out his place in a world he now understands is comprised largely of crimes: right and wrong, big and small. 'For me-as I'm certain it will be for every reader of the wonderful Norwegian By Night-Derek B. Miller's new novel is a genuine literary event (Sheldon Horowitz is back!). Miller has long deserved to be a household name. How to Find Your Way in the Dark should finally make him one.' -Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are. 355 pp. Englisch.
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