Snow von Banville, John

Als Schauspieler konnte Alexander Cleave in viele Masken schlüpfen und doch war er immer auf der Suche nach seinem wahren Selbst. Nun ist er an einem Wendepunkt in seinem Leben angekommen. Mitten in einer Aufführung verlässt Cleave die...

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fourteen previous novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He was recently awarded the Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Dublin.

One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome...

»Billy Gray war mein bester Freund, und seine Mutter war meine erste Liebe.« Ein Roman über eine ungewöhnliche und verbotene erste Liebe, über Freundschaft, Trauer und das Weiterleben. Und eine Geschichte von Erinnerung und Einbildung,...

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fifteen previous novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN...

In a brilliant illumination of the Renaissance mind, acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville re-creates the life of Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Wars,...

'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss. When art historian...

April in Spain von Banville, John

Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. But we were happy together, simply happy.Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a petty thief; he does not...

From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered 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.“A...

Caliban von Banville, John