Rang was a Protestant pastor stationed near Poznan in modern-day Poland, then part of Prussia. The church, which he subsequently abandoned, had a mission to 'Germanise' the local population. Weber draws parallels between this apparently benign ambition and the subsequent murderous impulses of the third Reich, although a definitive portrait of her ancestor keeps eluding her. After his apostasy he became friends with several great early-twentieth-century thinkers, including Hug...
Winner of The Yomiuri Prize for Literature This prize-winning debut novel offers a compelling, insightful portrait of 1980s Japan, portraying a group of architects competing to design a major new building in Tokyo. Toru Sakanishi is a recent university graduate who joins a small, prestigious architecture firm founded by Shunsuke Murai, a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. A sensitive and observant narrator, Sakanishi is captivated by the artistic quality and careful ...
From bestselling novelist Patricia Melo comes a masterful thriller set in the far west of Brazil that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humorous and harrowing. To escape an overprotective family and an abusive partner, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian border town of Cruzeiro do Sul. There, she meets Carla, a local prosecutor, and Marcos, the son of an indigenous woman, and learns about an epidemic of violence against women that seems beyond comprehensio...
