New Releases by Barry Unsworth

Barry Unsworth is the author of The Greeks Have a Word for It (2002), The Big Day (2002), Horatios Schatten (2002), Heilige honger (2002), La folie Nelson (2002).

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The Greeks Have a Word for It

release date: Feb 17, 2002
The Greeks Have a Word for It
When two men disembark from the same boat in Greece, their lives accidentally and frighteningly intersect. Kennedy, an opportunist, orchestrates a scam that will have some intended and some thoroughly unintended consequences. For Mitsos, an unresolved family tragedy awakens again, along with his need to avenge his parents'' deaths. With utterly convincing characterizations, Barry Unsworth brings us the underbelly of the forge of Western civilization.

The Big Day

release date: Feb 17, 2002
The Big Day
It was a big day for Cuthbertson''s Regional School, and it would go off like a bomb. Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching, along with a birthday party for his wife, Lavinia, who is not going quietly into middle age. Her lavish costume party provides the revelers with a darkly comic resolution to romantic dalliance and political intrigue.

Horatios Schatten

release date: Jan 01, 2002

Heilige honger

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Heilige honger
Na de muiterij op een slavenschip, rond 1760, kunnen de overlevenden, blank en zwart, voor korte tijd een eigen wereldje inrichten.

La folie Nelson

release date: Jan 01, 2002
La folie Nelson
Audacieuse fresque historique saluée comme un chef d''œuvre par la presse britannique, La Folie Nelson est un roman littéraire foisonnant où s''entremêlent les hauts faits d''un personnage prestigieux de l''Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle et le triste destin de l''un de ses admirateurs. En juin 1799, lors de l''assaut d''une forteresse napolitaine, l''amiral Nelson fit exécuter des rebelles à qui il avait promis la vie sauve. Un acte de trahison qui portera un coup funeste à l''admirable carrière du vainqueur de Trafalgar... Deux siècles plus tard, à Londres, un homme, indigné par cette interprétation de l''histoire, écrit une biographie à la gloire de l''amiral. Charles Cleasby, très tôt orphelin de mère comme son idole, convaincu d''être le double obscur de ce héros dont il reproduit inlassablement les exploits navals dans le sous-sol de sa maison victorienne, se sent investi d''une mission vitale : prouver l''innocence de lord Nelson. Mais tandis que sa secrétaire, miss Lily, émet des réserves sur la bravoure du grand homme, Charles lui-même découvre certains faits qui viennent ternir l''image de son icône. Peu à peu s''engage en lui une douloureuse bataille opposant le maître et le disciple, la réalité et la fiction, les ténèbres et la lumière, premiers signes d''une folie qui le conduira à commettre l''irréparable...

Chanontas Ton Nelson

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Chanontas Ton Nelson
As he writes on Nelson, a British biographer re-lives his battles and romances. But he is obsessed by a black mark against his hero, Nelson''s massacre of Neapolitans. The biographer undertakes a trip to Naples and receives an explanation.

Le nègre du paradis

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Le nègre du paradis
Gigantesque fresque romanesque, passionnant roman d''aventures, Le Nègre du paradis a été salué, dès sa parution en France en 1994, comme un chef-d''œuvre par une presse unanime. Liverpool, 1752. Jeune médecin rebelle, emprisonné pour avoir défendu des théories sur l''évolution des espèces, Matthew Paris embarque à bord d''un navire négrier appartenant à son oncle, l''armateur William Kemp. Horrifié par les épouvantables conditions de détention des esclaves, il défiera le sanguinaire capitaine Thurso, allant jusqu''à organiser la mutinerie de l''équipage. Une fois sur les rives de Floride, il tentera de réaliser son rêve d''une colonie fondée sur les principes de liberté et d''égalité, où Noirs et Blancs vivraient fraternellement... Mais, au même moment, en Angleterre, son cousin Erasmus Kemp, qui rend Paris responsable de la déchéance de son père, se lance à son tour dans le commerce maritime et fait fortune ; il ira jusqu''aux Amériques pour poursuivre son cousin de sa haine et de sa vengeance.

Losing Nelson

release date: Jan 01, 2000
Losing Nelson
As he writes on Nelson, a British biographer re-lives his battles and romances. But he is obsessed by a black mark against his hero, Nelson''s massacre of Neapolitans. The biographer undertakes a trip to Naples and receives an explanation.

Nelsons skugga

release date: Jan 01, 2000

Un été en Italie

release date: Jan 01, 2000

Das Sklavenschiff.

release date: Feb 01, 1999

Ein Haus in Umbrien.

release date: Feb 01, 1999

Sugar and Rum

release date: Jan 01, 1999
Sugar and Rum
A "powerfully done" ("Times Literary Supplement") and tantalizingly semi-autobiographical novel from the author of the Booker Prize-winning "Sacred Heart".

Die Masken der Wahrheit.

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Efter Hannibal

release date: Jan 01, 1998

The Morality Play Workbook

release date: Jan 01, 1998

To nēsi tou Paschalē

release date: Jan 01, 1998

Na Hannibal

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Na Hannibal
Enkele mensen die in Italië nogal afgesloten van de buitenwereld wonen, wenden zich tot dezelfde sluwe advocaat wanneer zij voor problemen komen te staan.

Lo spettacolo della vita

release date: Jan 01, 1997

Döden och gycklarna

release date: Jan 01, 1997

“Die” Masken der Wahrheit

release date: Jan 01, 1997

Mooncranker's Gift

release date: Jun 17, 1996
Mooncranker's Gift
In this edgy and masterfully written novel, Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth explores the themes of the corruption of innocence and the complications of lust. Farnaby, a young Englishman in Istanbul researching a thesis on Ottoman fiscal policy, is nervous at his reunion with the celebrated Mooncranker who once so fatefully influenced and disturbed his life. Mooncranker, a famous intellectual, is now a pitiful alcoholic deserted by his secretary and lover Miranda—the woman Farnaby secretly loved with the violence of youth. Mooncranker sends him to find Miranda at a notorious Turkish spa on the grounds of an ancient city where sex is known to come along with the price of the room. There Farnaby tries to understand Mooncranker''s gift to him as a boy of thirteen, which has tainted his life ever since, as he finds himself a pivotal figure in the eccentric destinies of the other residents of the spa.

Hambre sagrada

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Opowiesc o czynach Zlego Ducha

release date: Jan 01, 1996

The Rage of the Vulture

release date: Jan 01, 1995
The Rage of the Vulture
In 1908 Englishman Robert Markham is appointed to the British legation in Turkey.

Stone Virgin

release date: Jan 01, 1995
Stone Virgin
As Simon Raikes restores a fifteenth-century Venetian masterpiece, he becomes obsessed with the sculpture, becoming involved in a crime as he reconstructs the past and is drawn into the mysteries of love, betrayal, and violence.

Novels and Novelists in the 1990's

release date: Jan 01, 1993

L'Île de Pascali

release date: Jan 01, 1990

Pascali's Island Counter Display

release date: Aug 01, 1988

L'isola di Pascali

release date: Jan 01, 1988
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