From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. von...

Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art", who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on...

25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH EXTRA MATERIALFrederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Don't make me laugh.Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He...

Eine Ode an die Stadt Dublin. Ein sehr persönlicher Dublin-Stadtführer und zugleich eine autobiographische Reise des großen irischen Schriftstellers und Man Booker Prize-Trägers John Banville an ganz besondere Orte in der Sehnsuchtsstadt...

"Long Lankin: Stories" von John Banville ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die sich durch Banvilles charakteristischen literarischen Stil auszeichnen. Die Geschichten erkunden Themen wie Erinnerung, Verlust und die Komplexität...

Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child--a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without his recently deceased wife. It is also a return to the place...

The Lock-Up von Banville, John

John Banville's stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer.Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life...

„Kepler“ von John Banville ist ein historischer Roman, der das Leben des berühmten Astronomen Johannes Kepler nachzeichnet. Der Roman konzentriert sich auf Keplers berufliche und persönliche Herausforderungen im 17. Jahrhundert, einer...

Doctor Copernicus von Banville, John

"Nicht frei von Sünde" ist der erste Band der Kriminalromanreihe "Quirke ermittelt" von John Banville, die unter dem Pseudonym Benjamin Black veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte spielt im Dublin der 1950er Jahre und folgt dem Pathologen...

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books are Nightspawn , Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976), Kepler (which...