Duft und Pflege

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Winner of the American Book Award 2010
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Gewicht: 375 gr / Abmessung: 20,5 cm
Von Eggers, Dave

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. Good Samaritan Abdulrahman has stayed on in the city, traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe, feeding trapped dogs and rescuing survivors, as New Orleans becomes a disaster zone. But nothing could prepare him for the wholly unexpected nightmare that follows...

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Who killed Pamela Werner?

On a frozen night in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the teenage daughter of the city's former British consul Edward Werner. Her heart had been removed.

A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamela's killer, with a Chinese-British detective team pursuing suspects including a blood-soaked rickshaw puller, the Triads, and a lascivious grammar school headmaster. But the case was soon forgotten amid the carnage of the Japanese invasion... by all but Edward Werner. With a network of private investigators and informers, he followed the trail deep into Peking's notorious Badlands and back to the gilded hotels of the colonial Quarter.

Some 75 years later, deep in the Scotland Yard archives, British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file prepared by Edward Werner. Unveiling an undercover sex cult, heroin addicts and disappearing brothels, the truth behind the crime can now be told - and is more disturbing than anyone could imagine.

Not just the unputdownable story of a savage murder, Midnight in Peking is a sweepingly evocative account of the end of an era.

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Von Kissinger, Henry

Kissinger, Nationaler Sicherheitsberater von 1969 bis 1973 und US-Außenminister von 1973 bis 1977, präsentiert ein umfassendes Bild von China, beginnend mit der Klassischen Ära bis hin zum heutigen Tag. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Dekaden seit der Machtergreifung Mao Tse-tungs, in welcher Zeit Kissinger selbst persönliche Erfahrungen mit vier chinesischen Staatsoberhäuptern machte. Besonders interessant sind Kissingers Gedanken zur Entwicklung der globalen Machtbalance im 21. Jahrhundert.

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