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Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation. It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation.

Von einem, der auszog, den Mut zu findenEines Morgens lauft Noah von zu Hause fort. Ein einsamer Waldweg fuhrt ihn zu einem Spielzeugladen voller Zauber und Magie. Hier lernt Noah einen sehr ungewohnlichen Spielzeugmacher kennen.Der alte Mann hat viel zu erzahlen. In seiner Geschichte geht es um Abenteuer, Wunder und gebrochene Versprechen. So nimmt er Noah mit auf eine Reise.Eine Reise, die Noahs Leben verandern wird.Und die auch unser Leben verandern konnte.Eine marchenhafte Parabel uber den Trost des Erzahlens.

Ein neuer Roman von Bestsellerautor John BoyneEs gibt sie, diese winzigen Momente, die ein Leben fur immer verandern. Fur Danny und seine Familie kommt ein solcher Moment, als Dannys Mutter einen kleinen Jungen mit dem Auto anfahrt. Qualende Schuldgefuhle lassen sie nicht mehr los, die Familie droht auseinanderzubrechen.Der Text besticht durch eine spannende Handlung und die groartig eingefangene Atmosphare. John Boyne erzahlt unmittelbar aus der Sicht des zwolfjahrigen Danny und schafft so einen eindringlichen Roman uber Schuld, Schicksal und die Kunst, zu verzeihen.

London, September 1919: Der junge Tristan Sadler steigt in einen Zug. Er fahrt nach Norwich, um sich dort mit Marian Bancroft, der Schwester seines toten Kameraden Will, zu treffen. Will und Tristan waren Freunde, die Seite an Seite im Ersten Weltkrieg gekampft haben bis Will eine folgenschwere Entscheidung traf, die er fur den Rest seines Lebens bereuen sollte ...

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place...

Apesar de sentir falta do irmão mais velho, que estava fazendo faculdade em outro país, Danny aproveitava o tempo livre das férias para andar de bicicleta e jogar bola com seu melhor amigo, Luke Kenn

Noah is running away from his problems the day he takes the untrodden path through the forest - or at least that''s what he thinks. When he comes across a very unusual toyshop and meets the even more unusual toymaker, he''s not sure what to expect. But the toymaker has a story to tell, a story full of adventure, wonder and broken promises. And Noah travels with him on a journey that will change his life for ever.A thought-provoking fable from the author of the bestselling Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

London, 1936. Owen Montignac, der attraktive, charismatische Spross aus gutem Haus, erwartet bang die Testamentsverlesung seines unlangst verstorbenen Onkels. Doch Owen wird nicht berucksichtigt. Die Alleinerbin ist seine schone Cousine Stella,zu der er eine etwas fragwurdige Zuneigung empfindet. Zudem plagen ihn hohe Spielschulden - und so ersinnt Owen einen teuflischen Plan.

Berlijn, 1943. De negenjarige Bruno verhuist met zijn familie naar een plek ver weg. Hun nieuwe huis staat naast een hoog hek, een hek dat Bruno afschermt van de vreemde mensen die hij daarachter ziet bewegen. Op een van zijn ontdekkingstochten ontmoet Bruno een jongen wiens leven zeer verschilt van dat van hem. Toch worden de jongens vrienden, maar het is een vriendschap die niet zonder gevolgen blijft. De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama is nu magistraal verfilmd als The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield''s father promised he wouldn''t go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn''t know where his father might be, other than that he''s away on a special, secret mission.Then, while shining shoes at King''s Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father''s name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place . . .

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his three score years and ten, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country and much more. In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.

A compelling quick read from the author of the international bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something terrible has happened. Mrs. Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will ever wake up. Consumed by guilt, Danny's mother closes herself off, while Danny and his father are left to pick up the pieces of their fractured family. Told in John Boyne's unique style from the point of view of the twelve-year-old boy, The Dare is a brilliantly compelling story about how one moment can change a family forever.

William Cody grows up surrounded by his father''s tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the Wild West. Though he escapes his heritage by fleeing abroad and starting a new life for himself, he finds that he is always drawn back to England and to his ancestry. When his father proposes that together they should recreate Buffalo Bill''s stage show, "The Congress of Rough Riders of the World" for a contemporary audience, William refuses to have any part of it. When tragedy strikes, however, it is to his father that he must eventually return.