Resultaten gefilterd op "Akashic Books"

Office Girl

Joe Meno

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Meno's tender, hip, funny, and imaginative portrayal of two Chicago misfits...dramatizes that anguished and awkward passage between legal age and act... Lees meer

The System of Dante's Hell

Amiri Baraka

• Paperback | Engels | Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint
• Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age...the special agony of the American Negro. -- New York Times B... Lees meer

Dallas Noir

• Paperback | Engels | Akashic Noir
• One of Texas Monthly 's 5 Things You'll be Talking about in November This collection of crime stories takes its inspiration from the darker corners of... Lees meer

Dance of the Jakaranda

Peter Kimani

• Paperback | Engels
• Peter Kimani has been nominated for the 2018 Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires, Catégorie Belles-Lettres Nominated for the 2018/2019 People's Bo... Lees meer

The Necessary Hunger

Nina Revoyr

• Paperback | Engels
• A Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet Best of the Bunch Fiction Pick High school basketball player Nancy Takahiro's future is uncertain. She's courte... Lees meer

Providence Noir

• Hardcover | Engels | Akashic Noir
• Peter Farrelly's story The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday has been nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Short Story! Named a Favorite Book of 20... Lees meer

The Book of Love and Hate

Lauren Sanders

• Paperback | Engels
• Sanders, whose first novel Kamikaze Lust, won a 2000 Lambda Literary Award, offers an international espionage thriller in which a failed Olympic speed... Lees meer

Wide Eyed

Trinie Dalton

• Paperback | Engels | Little House on the Bowery
• "Trinie Dalton's voice is so charming in these stories and they fly right by, so it takes a little time to realize how deftly she is talking about dea... Lees meer

Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

Shani Mootoo

• Hardcover | Engels
• Long-listed for Canada's Scotiabank Giller Prize . Short-listed for the Lambda Literary Award . Readers who enjoy rich details of place will find Moot... Lees meer

A Student of History

Nina Revoyr

• Hardcover | Engels
• Revoyr is gifted in her ability to deal with complex ideas like racism, class conflict, and sexuality without sacrificing the truth of her narrative. ... Lees meer

Tales of the Out & the Gone

Amiri Baraka

• Paperback | Engels
• Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century--most of which has never been published-- Tales of the Out & the Gone reflec... Lees meer

Alice Fantastic

Maggie Estep

• Paperback | Engels
• The storytelling has vitality and a spirit of rebellion, giving us hope for the future of all those bad girls with dirty faces and bad boys on bikes.-... Lees meer

Beulah Hill

William Heffernan

• Paperback | Engels
• "The whispered revelations that come spilling out of -Beulah Hill are like ghostly voices you sometimes hear in the attic--soft, sad and disturbingly ... Lees meer

The Ravenous Audience

Kate Durbin

• Paperback | Engels | Black Goat
• Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are close to Ra... Lees meer

A Tall History of Sugar

Curdella Forbes

• Paperback | Engels
• A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. WINNER of the 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for... Lees meer

Grace

Elizabeth Nunez

• Paperback | Engels
• "Extremely deserving of its title, this gorgeous, meditative book is a graceful rendering of one couple's journeys and explorations toward and away fr... Lees meer

Out of Mesopotamia

Salar Abdoh

• Paperback | Engels
• Informed by firsthand experience on the battlefronts of Iraq and Syria, Abdoh captures the horror, confusion, and absurdity of combat from a seldom-gl... Lees meer

Seriously, You Have to Eat

Adam Mansbach

• Hardcover | Engels
• Parents and children alike will surely welcome a pause to bond over a shared recognition that their endless battles are not theirs alone--before they ... Lees meer

Cervantes Street

Jaime Manrique

• Hardcover | Engels
• A Latinidad List Best Book of 2012 " Cervantes Street is exciting to read...Under Mr. Manrique's pen, the world of renaissance Spain and the Mediterra... Lees meer

Hurricane Street

Ron Kovic

• Paperback | Engels
• " Hurricane Street ...[is] another raw expose on the cost of war. The book, which he calls a prequel, drills deep into the 17-day drama of a 1974 sit-... Lees meer

Tango for a Torturer

Daniel Chavarría

• Paperback | Engels
• Aldo Bianchi, a former Argentine revolutionary now living in Italy, travels to Havana, where he meets the beautiful Bini, a sultry student with great ... Lees meer

Nine Coins/Nueve Monedas

Carlos Pintado

• Paperback | Engels
• Named a Notable Translation of 2015 by World Literature Today The Moon has been selected as one of Vancouver Poetry House 's 10 Best Poems of 2015 Thi... Lees meer

Montreal Noir

• Paperback | Engels | Akashic Noir
• These 15 new stories celebrate the differences between us and our northern neighbor. As in any good noir, poverty, drugs, and despair cloud many of th... Lees meer

Lessons in Taxidermy

Bee Lavender

• Paperback | Engels | Punk Planet Books
• "Bee Lavender is a fantastic writer. Her work is deep and personal, and I don't think there are any places she's scared to go." --Michelle Tea, author... Lees meer