Frans van der Wiel Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Chris is in his forties: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. He s a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a prostitute into his car.Roza is Yugoslavian, recently moved to London.

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies. Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation... The second part of a trilogy, following "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Fiction.

Pingeland, zo noemt Dismas het rijke land, dat veel op Nederland lijkt en hem ooit als vluchteling gastvrij ontving. Sinds Blaatpan minister-president van Pingeland is voelt hij zich er steeds minder thuis. Het sociale klimaat wordt grimmiger, asielbeleid en terrorisme bepalen de politieke agenda. Dismas doet er vanuit zijn flat in een rustige buitenwijk ogenschijnlijk afstandelijk verslag van, maar in werkelijkheid gaat in hem de aanstichter schuil van een reeks van aanslagen. Voorbedachte daden is een sterk, met vaart geschreven verhaal waaruit koele woede spreekt, maar ook humor, egoïsme en mededogen.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003 In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation on authority and rebellion, art and imagination. Dostoevsky is seen obsessively following his stepson's ghost, trying to ascertain whether he was a suicide or a murder victim and whether he loved or despised his stepfather.

A black comedy of manners which treats the pursuit of revenge in a satirical and amusing way. It is the ultimate fantasy of the wronged woman. It has been made into a film and stars Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr.