Graham Greene - Böcker

Första boken i Graham Greenes stora romankvartett Den hänsynslöse gangstern Pinkie Brown är fast besluten att befästa sin position inom Brightons undre värld. Efter att i en brutal uppvisning av makt ha mördat journalisten Fred Hale inser Pinkie a...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love a...

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'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John Updike During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. B...

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Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers h...

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Första boken i Graham Greenes stora romankvartett Den hänsynslöse gangstern Pinkie Brown är fast besluten att befästa sin position inom Brightons undre värld. Efter att i en brutal uppvisning av makt ha mördat journalisten Fred Hale inser Pinkie a...

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» Slutet på historien och Den stillsamme amerikanen är mörka, förtvivlade romaner. Det märkliga är hur roligt det är att bege sig in i det där mörkret.« | JENS CHRISTIAN BRANDT, DN Maurice Bendrix och Sarah Miles har haft en hemlig relation i fyra...

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»Graham Greene är den främste skildraren av 1900-talsmänniskans medvetande och farhågor.« | WILLIAM GOLDING »En av världens största författare, oavsett språk.« | WASHINGTON POST »En fullständigt absurd historia. Väldigt rolig.« | C-G KARLSSON, GO'...

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»Graham Greenes stora mästerverk.«¿| John Updike, The New York Review of Books¿ Mexiko, 1930-tal. Efter revolutionen råder starka antiklerikala stämningar och i delstater som Tabasco är religionen i princip förbjuden. Kyrkorna är stängda eller ned...

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Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder - but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial ...

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En av tidernas mest klassiska spionromaner » Slutet på historien och Den stillsamme amerikanen är mörka, förtvivlade romaner. Det märkliga är hur roligt det är att bege sig in i det där mörkret.« | JENS CHRISTIAN BRANDT, DN »En av världens största...

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ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONS During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chan...

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Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring aunt. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty ...

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A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest novels. In a provincial Argentinian community, Charley Fortnum - a British consul with dubious authority and a notorious fondn...

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN 'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, no...

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It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler's agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once c...

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A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene 'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction' Daily Telegraph Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve Eng...

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'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through ...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he b...

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Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retrib...

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'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt' The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions....

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Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more and more interested and involved in the antics of two homosexual interior decorators intent on stealing...

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»Graham Greenes stora mästerverk.« John Updike, The New York Review of Books Mexiko, 1930-tal. Efter revolutionen råder starka antiklerikala stämningar och i delstater som Tabasco är religionen i princip förbjuden. Kyrkorna är stängda eller nedbrä...

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"The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round the corners of abandoned trucks." ¿ As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey...

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