»Banville überrascht erneut mit wohldosiertem Übermaß.« Seamus Heaney Ein langer Sommertag in einem Herrenhaus in Irland: Adam Godley liegt im Sterben, Grund genug für seinen Sohn Adam jun. und seine Tochter Petra, Ressentiments über...

"The Untouchable" von John Banville ist ein fesselnder Roman, der die Geschichte von Victor Maskell erzählt, einem angesehenen Kunsthistoriker und ehemaligen Spion, der im späteren Leben als Verräter entlarvt wird. Die Handlung ist...

"Athena: Roman" von Lilian Faschinger ist ein faszinierendes Werk, das sich um die Protagonistin Athena dreht. Die Geschichte entfaltet sich in einem komplexen Geflecht aus persönlichen und historischen Ereignissen. Athena ist eine...

April in Spain von Banville, John

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.

Snow von Banville, John

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...

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...

'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...

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,...

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...

April in Spain von Banville, John