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  • Ere the Cock Crows
    Jens Bjørneboe / Esther Greenleaf Mürer
    Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe’s chilling novel follows the ethical quandaries--or not--of Germans involved in Nazi concentration camps and human medical experiments in World War II. Dr. Reynhardt rejects Nazi ideology, while compartmentalizing his life as a loving family man and his work on horrific medical experiments performed on prisoners of war. Head of camp Heidenbrand i...
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    37,87 €

  • Winter in Bellapalma
    Jens Bjørneboe / Esther Greenleaf Mürer
    This comic novel by renowned Norwegian writer Jens Bjørneboe follows the exploits of a community of expatriates living off-season in a small Italian fishing village: their lives, loves, and interactions with the locals, including involvement in a dispute between the fishermen and the town fathers who wish to promote the tourist industry. A shorter, lighter read than most of Bjø...
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    24,08 €

  • Powderhouse
    Jens Bjørneboe / Esther Greenleaf Mürer
    Powderhouse is a novel which is set in an asylum for the criminally insane, where the narrator functions as a kind of porter, observing and commenting on the foibles of inmates and keepers alike. The patients are a motley collection, and their treatment is unorthodox to say the least; part of their treatment consists of composing and delivering a series of lectures on subjects ...
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    18,12 €

  • Moment of Freedom
    Jens Bjørneboe / Esther Greenleaf Mürer
    This is the first volume of a trilogy which marks the high point of outspokenness and originality of one of Norway's most controversial modern writers. Jens Bjørneboe was an author and polemicist of fierce energy and deep conviction, who throughout his career provoked and upset the establishment by his unrelenting attacks on its most sacred cows: a repressive school system,...
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    18,04 €

  • The Silence
    Jens Bjørneboe / Esther Greenleaf Mürer
    This volume marks the apex and the culmination of the provocative Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe's investigations into the nature of evil. Here the study moves to a broader canvas than in earlier works; the enquiring narrator explores not just European history, but the crimes committed by Europeans against the rest of humanity in the name of expansion and conquest. Cortez&...
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    18,12 €

  • The Sharks
    Jens Bjørneboe / Esther Greenleaf Mürer
    Set at the end of last century, The Sharks is a thrilling tale of mutiny and shipwreck, which bears comparison with Melville’s Moby Dick or Conrad’s Typhoon in its suspense and its evocation of the fascination of the sea. It is also the story of mankind’s voyage into the twentieth century, suspended between the empty skies and the bottomless depths, dreadfully aware of its pote...
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    17,94 €