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Enough About Angels

Emma — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025 Human being – astonishing creature – who are you? Delivered in Stockholm in December 2025, Enough About Angels is the extraordinary Nobel Lecture from László Krasznahorkai. Characteristically brilliant and unforgettable, it is a message about hope, compassion, the force of humanity and how, from our degraded current epoch, destruction might emerge – or rebellion. 'A compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art' Nobel Prize Judges TRANSLATED BY OTTILIE MULZET

Service

Emma — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

‘John Tottenham writes with a rare comic intensity’ COLM TÃIBÃN’My favourite nihilistic romantic’ RACHEL KUSHNER’A brutally honest, insightful, intelligent and absolutely hilarious novel’ MICHAEL IMPERIOLIWhat’s this book about? Is there a restroom? Do you have gluten-free bagels? Do you work here? Do you have a restroom? Do I buy books or rent books or what? Still a bookseller in his late forties, Sean knows that the worst thing about a bookshop is the customers. Then there’s the gift-wrapping, the invoicing, the Yelp reviews. The overwhelming sense of self-loathing after another day of not writing a novel yourself. While Sean’s book remains unfinished, his city has changed around him. As have friends and acquaintances, at least the ones who keep in touch. The service industry is different, too. But what, or whom, is he serving anyway? Biting, hilarious and self-aware, John Tottenham’s debut novel is a razor-sharp dissection of gentrification, friendship, jealousy and the role of literature in a digital age.

Herscht 07769

Emma — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The International Booker Award winner’s breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism’Propulsive and revelatory’ The New York Times’A work of genius’ 5-star review, TelegraphGentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer in their east German town. He is determined to punish the culprit and Florian has no choice but to join his gang as they devise a plan to catch him. But Florian has bigger things to worry about: having attended Herr Köhler’s adult education classes in physics, he can see that the world might end at any moment. Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai’s novel is a tour de force, a moving character study, a blistering satire and devastating encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today.

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Emma — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

‘Propulsive and revelatory’ The New York TimesFlorian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler’s classes in particle physics for two years, he is convinced that global cataclysm is imminent. And so he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, hoping to convince her of the imminent danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter.Written in one cascading sentence with the force of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai’s latest novel is a tour de force, a morality play of blistering satire, a devastating encapsulation of our helplessness in the face of the moral and environmental dilemmas we face.

A mountain to the north, a lake to the south, paths to the west, a river to the

Emma — Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him.This novel by International Booker Prize winner László Krasznahorkai – perhaps his most serene and poetic work – describes a search for the unobtainable and the riches to be discovered along the way. Despite difficulties in finding the garden, the reader is closely introduced to the construction processes of the monastery as well as the geological and biological processes of the surrounding area, making this an unforgettable meditation on nature, life, history, and being.

The geometer Lobachevsky

Emma — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

‘When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become a great mathematician, I strayed instead into the foothills of anthropology …’It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky, great-grandson of his illustrious namesake, is surveying a bog in the Irish Midlands, where he studies the locals, the land and their ways. One afternoon, soon after he arrives, he receives a telegram calling him back to Leningrad for a ‘special appointment’. Lobachevsky may not be a great genius but he is not foolish: he recognises a death sentence when he sees one and leaves to go into hiding on a small island in the Shannon estuary, where the island families harvest seaweed and struggle to split rocks. Here Lobachevsky must think about death, how to avoid it and whether he will ever see his home again

A mountain to the north, a lake to the south, paths to the west, a river to the

Emma — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000