Olga

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birkenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book. "... Thank you for your very frank, very well written...

The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel.
Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating. Olga Grushin is dealing with issues of women’s identity, of women’s choices, that no modern novel has explored so deeply....

An award-winning debut novel about a quirky immigrant’s journey through a multicultural, post-nationalist landscape
 
Set in Frankfurt, All Russians Love Birch Trees follows a young immigrant named Masha. Fluent in five languages and able to get by in several others, Masha lives with her boyfriend, Elias. Her best friends are Muslims struggling to obtain residence permits, and her parents rarely leave the house...

Syria - a country at war. Amal, Hammoudi and Youssef are young and ambitious, the face of modern Syria. But when civil war tears through their homeland, they are left with a horrifying choice: risk death by staying in the country they love, or flee in search of a new life elsewhere? From one of Germany's most talented literary voices comes this intricately woven story of brutality, loss, and how hope can shine through when darkness feels overwhelming....

Being one of the most formidable archangels with the power to end the world doesn't serve you well if you don't know how to use it. Thrown into a battle of courts and factions, tangled in a web of intrigues and palatial games, naïve Ariel is surrounded by powerful angels, chasing their own agendas. There's no one she can trust. Everyone stands to gain something from her death. To avoid the bloody battle that Baza brought to her door at Uras, Ariel...

No es vano decir que la historia es de los sobrevivientes y no propiamente de los historiadores. Y en este caso, en el libro de la periodista Olga Behar, él y los sobrevivientes de la historia son, desde la profundidad de la primera persona y de los protagonistas mismos, quienes fueron cómplices y por serlo, causaron y causan en Colombia el proceso horrendo del paramilitarismo, del despojo de las tierras, de la agresión interminable a un campesinado...

Myriam se ve obligada a elegir el ataúd de su abuelo, que acaba de morir y al que se sentía muy unida. Este hecho, junto a la disfuncionalidad de sus vínculos familiares, la dependencia emocional de una relación marcadamente sexual y el cuestionamiento de su propia vocación, sume a la protagonista en una intensa crisis personal de la que tratará de salir mediante la propuesta que le hace su mejor amiga. Dos ciudades, San Sebastián y Granada,...

Hace años sucedieron cosas en el interior de un orfanato, de las que no solo sus paredes fueron testigo. Manu corrió y corrió, hasta dejar atrás su infancia entre aquellos muros y el recuerdo de lo que un niño jamás debiera haber visto. Con una prosa exquisita en la que cobran vida los ambientes, olores, sabores y texturas de una India a caballo entre la realidad y la ficción, Olga Casado nos ofrece una historia trepidante, que dejará una...