Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at 15, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority.

In 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, Bojan Buloh had brought his family to start a new life away from Slovenia, the privations of war, and refugee settlements. One night, Bojan's wife walked off into a blizzard, never to return - leaving Bojan to drink too much to quiet his ghosts, and to care for his three-year-old daughter, Sonja, alone. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to Tasmania and a father haunted by memories of the European war and other, more recent horrors.

Friedrich Mergel, der Sohn eines gewalttätigen Alkoholikers, leidet darunter, dass die Dorfjugend ihn wegen seines missratenen Vaters, der bereits verstorbenen ist, verspottet. In Johannes, das uneheliche Kind eines Schweinebauern, der ihm äußerlich sehr ähnlich sieht, findet er einen Freund und die beiden werden unzertrennlich. Als junger Erwachsener ist Friedrich der größte Draufgänger in der Umgebung und aufgrund seiner physischen Stärke fürchtet er sich vor nichts und niemandem.

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms. 

Thérèse ist jung, verheiratet mit dem kränklichen Camille und eingesperrt mit der Schwiegermutter in den Alltag eines Kurzwarenladens...