The tinder box

Andersen's bittersweet fairy tales propelled their troubled author to international fame and revolutionized children's writing.

The gate of the hundred sorrows

Opium dens, curses, ghostly tombs - these sinister tales of Imperial India made Kipling's name as a writer

Circles of hell

A terrifying depiction of sin and eternal damnation from Dante's Inferno, the medieval epic that revolutionize the Italian language

The nightingales are drunk

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780141980263

Collation

48 p. ; 14 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 HAF t

Mina's matchbox

In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms ar…

On the calculation of volume

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780571383375

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

800 BAL o

Perfection

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neukölln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints.

Sisters in yellow

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781035095094

Collation

429 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 KAW s

Hooked

Eriko's life appears perfect – devoted parents, spotless apartment and a job in the seafood division of one of Japan's largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness. Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by…

Martin eden

Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a criticism of ambition; however, much of its status as a classic has been conferred by admirers of its ambitious protagoni…