Showing results for "Millennium" in Literary Fiction

Mikael Blomkvist yang menjadi superstar di Swedia ketika berhasil mengekspos kasus korupsi yang besar, tidak bisa menolak ketika seorang jurnalis muda berniat menerbitkan sebuah buku mengenai Sex Trafficking melalui MILLENIUM.Ketika sang jurnalis muda dan kekasihnya dibunuh di apartemen mereka...

Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes. When a bomb explodes at Heathrow, it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But when he discovers that his ex-wife is among the victims he is compelled to further investigate the mysterious and shocking circumstances surrounding her death.

In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee - whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can be reached only underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by secrets and transcendent delusions.

Macht, Krieg, Seefahrt, Treueschwüre und Intrigen: Dänemarks blutiger Weg in ein tausendjähriges Königreich. Die Wikingersaga um den verwegenen Schwertkämpfer und Bogenschützen Ulv Palnatoki. Jütland. Man schreibt das Jahr 943. Nach seinen Taten bei der blutigen Schlacht von Fünen erwartet Ulv, genannt Ulv Schnellfuß, gefährlichster Bogenschütze der Wikingerzeit, seinen Lohn von König Gorm. Er will die Norneborg, die einst seinem Onkel Jarl Ottar gehörte. Dieser ist nun tot, gefallen in der Schlacht bei seiner eigenen Wikingerburg.

Harriet Vanger, putri salah satu keluarga paling berpengaruh di Swedia, hilang 40 tahun lalu. Kasusnya tak terpecahkan. Tak ada mayat. Tak ada saksi. Tak ada bukti. Semua petunjuk mengarah ke jalan buntu. Henrik Vanger, sang paman, yakin keponakannya itu dibunuh dan pelakunya adalah salah...

Salander, yang menjadi buronan polisi, ditemukan di sebuah desa terpencil dengan tembakan di kepala. Di sebelahnya, Zalachenko, pembelot Rusia sekaligus ayah kandungnya, tergeletak dengan kepala nyaris terbelah ujung sekop. Berita itu mengagetkan media Swedia dan juga sebuah kelompok rahasia...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler tells a magical and humorous contemporary fable that captures the state of humanity at the cusp of a new millennium - as seen through the uniquely sensitive perspective of an empathetic extraterrestrial. An audible.com audio exclusive!

Perfect for fans of The Killing or The Bridge, After the Silence is an utterly compelling crime debut set in Amsterdam. *** A body is found hanging on a hook above the canals of Amsterdam's old town, a mobile phone forced into the victim's mouth. In a remote coastal village, a doll lies in the...