It won Denmark’s most important literary prize, Den Danske Banks Litteraturpris, and its English translation was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Prize.

As the police investigate, the slightly cantankerous Bess instead follows a trail of her own regrets and misapprehensions.Ītmospheric and haunted by the uncanny, The Murder of Halland is anything but your typical whodunnit. She isn’t worried about that, though, but about the daughter she abandoned years ago. When Halland is found murdered almost right outside his door, his widow, Bess, is of course the prime suspect. Request it here or grab it at the IC Display!ĭENMARK: The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul, translated by Martin Aitken Shocked out of his comfortable existence, Adrián becomes obsessed with finding the girl at the heart of the mystery, and sets out to face the harrowing realities of Peru’s recent past and uncover the truth about his father. As well as being linked to atrocities committed against the “Shining Path” guerrillas, it appears that he also kidnapped and kept a local girl, whose family now seeks retribution. But when his mother dies, he discovers a letter among her possessions making shocking claims about her now long-dead husband, Adrián’s father-a commander in the army during the Peruvian Civil War of the 1980s. PERU: The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto, translated by Frank WynneĪdrián Ormache, a high-flying lawyer with a beautiful wife and two daughters, leads a privileged and glamorous life in one of Lima’s wealthiest neighborhoods.

Amazonįind it here or at Lewis Library Display! In a world of supermarkets and public transportation, indifferent landscapes and lonely nights, Houellebecq manages to find traces of divine grace even as he exposes our inexorable decline into chaos. Drawing on themes that are similar to the ones in his novels, these poems are a journey into the depths of individual experience and universal passions.ĭivided into five parts, Unreconciled forms a narrative of love, hopelessness, catastrophe, dedication, and―ultimately―redemption. Today’s match-ups include France v Peru, Denmark v Australia and Argentina v Croatia.įRANCE: Unreconciled: Poems, 1991-2013 by Michel Houellebecq, translation by Gavid BowdĪ shimmering selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France’s most exciting authors, Unreconciled shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and reveals the radical singularity of his work.

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