Results for Ina Rilke

ISBN.nu

search for books and compare prices

Ina Rilke has written 22 work(s)

Search for other authors with the same name

displaying 1 to 22 | at end

show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest

My Fellow Skin

Product Description: My Fellow Skin is a beautiful, affectionate novel told from the point of view of an impressionable young boy. The novel opens before the boy can talk, and we follow Antonâs first, tentative steps on the path to adulthood. He gradually begins to grasp an understanding of time and death, and when he goes to school he falls in love for the first time â not with the schoolgirls his peers are interested in, but with his classmate, Willem...read more

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Paperback:

9781782270195 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, May 5, 2015, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: My Fellow Skin is a beautiful, affectionate novel told from the point of view of an impressionable young boy.

9780345454072, titled "The Homing" | Ballantine Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $3.99 | also contains The Homing | About this edition: A young widow returning to her hometown to marry her childhood sweetheart must protect her vulnerable daughters when she is confronted with an unspeakable horror--an unearthly, hideous force of nature seeking to satisfy its appetite for innocence

Shutterspeed

Joris has lived with his aunt and uncle in a village since his childhood; his father died young and his mother moved to Spain. He is a quiet and introverted child who, his relatives fear, resents the loss of his parents deeply. The gentle rhythm of life, however, is about to be disturbed, awakening in Joris charged memories of his dead father.

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (3 editions listed)

Paperback:

9781782270201 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, May 5, 2015, cover price $14.95

9781843431725 | Random House Uk Ltd, November 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Joris has lived with his aunt and uncle in a village since his childhood; his father died young and his mother moved to Spain.

9780345909572, titled "The Sword of Shannara" | Reissue edition (Del Rey, March 1, 1996), cover price $6.99 | also contains Sword of Shannara | About this edition: Living in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world.

Marcel

Product Description: Written from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother, Marcel is a striking debut novel describing the vivid history of a family in a Flemish village. The mysterious death of Marcel, the family favourite, has always haunted the young boy...read more

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Paperback:

9781782270188 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, May 5, 2015, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Written from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother, Marcel is a striking debut novel describing the vivid history of a family in a Flemish village.

9780345905239, titled "The Alpine Christmas" | Ballantine Books, November 1, 1993, cover price $5.99 | also contains The Alpine Christmas | About this edition: An Emma Lord Mystery.

The Black Lake

Product Description: Amid the lush abundance of Java's landscape, two boys spend their days exploring the vast lakes and teeming forests. But as time passes the boys come to realize that their shared sense of adventure cannot bridge the gulf between their backgrounds, for one is the son of a Dutch plantation owner, and the other the son of a servant...read more

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781846273230 | Ingram Pub Services, October 4, 2013, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Amid the lush abundance of Java's landscape, two boys spend their days exploring the vast lakes and teeming forests.

Julia

Product Description: One summer's afternoon in 1981, a factory owner, Christiaan Dudok, is found dead in his study having taken his own life. He has left no suicide note, but on his desk is a newspaper from 2 April 1942, reporting on the bombing of the north German town of Lubeck...read more

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780857050557 | Gardners Books, October 27, 2011, cover price $19.90 | About this edition: One summer's afternoon in 1981, a factory owner, Christiaan Dudok, is found dead in his study having taken his own life.

The Foxes Come at Night

Product Description: Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come At Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph...read more

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780857050236 | Gardners Books, May 26, 2011, cover price $18.55 | About this edition: Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come At Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death.

The Friendship

Two very different women, Kit and Ara, grow to be friends in this often unexpected novel of an unusual relationship.

By Connie Palmen and Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Paperback:

9781846555640 | Vintage Uk, April 5, 2011, cover price $21.95

9781860465604 | Harvill Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Two very different women, Kit and Ara, grow to be friends in this often unexpected novel of an unusual relationship.

The Tea Lords

Product Description: Born into wealth and privilege, Rudolf Kerkhoven is destined to follow his father's footsteps into the Dutch colonies, with its uncleared jungle foothills and potential for riches.Â When he arrives in Java he is immediately smitten by the landscape and the life, and over the seasons, Rudolf's dedication and diligence gradually transform the land into a productive estate for tea, coffee and quinine...read more

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781846271700 | Granta Books, November 4, 2010, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: Rudolf leaves his comfortable origins in Delft by ship for Java to help run the family's estates there.

Paperback:

9781846271717 | Reprint edition (Ingram Pub Services, October 3, 2013), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Born into wealth and privilege, Rudolf Kerkhoven is destined to follow his father's footsteps into the Dutch colonies, with its uncleared jungle foothills and potential for riches.

Eline Vere

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780981955742, titled "Eline Vere: A Novel of the Hague" | Archipelago Books, August 1, 2010, cover price $20.00

A Bed in Heaven

Product Description: A woman falls in love with a man who may or may not be her brother in this searing novel by de Loo (The Twins), which traces the effects of WWII on a fractured Hungarian Jewish family. Like de Loo's previous work, this gripping, pared-down narrative hinges on a stunning coincidence...read more

By Tessa De Loo and Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (3 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781569473160 | Soho Pr Inc, February 1, 2003, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Kata, the daughter of a Jewish father who fled Budapest during World War II, is drawn to a young man named Stefan and later learns that he is her half brother, a situation that is complicated by their mutual attraction.

Paperback:

9781900850643 | Italian edition edition (Arcadia Books Ltd, April 1, 2008), cover price $22.95 | also contains A Bed in Heaven | About this edition: A woman falls in love with a man who may or may not be her brother in this searing novel by de Loo (The Twins), which traces the effects of WWII on a fractured Hungarian Jewish family.

9781569473511 | Soho Pr Inc, January 1, 2004, cover price $11.00

A Bed in Heaven

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

Beyond Sleep

By Willem Frederik Hermans and Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781585675838 | Overlook Pr, May 10, 2007, cover price $27.95

Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch

Product Description: Following his runaway best seller, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie gives us a delightful new tale of East meets West: an adventure both wry and uplifting about a love of dreams and the dream of love, and the power of reading to sustain and inspire the spirit...read more

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781400042593 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 7, 2005, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr.

Paperback:

9781597223966 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, December 13, 2006), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Following his runaway best seller, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie gives us a delightful new tale of East meets West: an adventure both wry and uplifting about a love of dreams and the dream of love, and the power of reading to sustain and inspire the spirit.

Mr Muo's Travelling Couch

Sadly, the 10,000 dollars Muo offers Judge Di to free his beloved aren't enough. The judge, tired of cash and cars, orders Muo to bring him a virgin girl to satisfy his sexual predilection for the unsullied.

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780701177393 | Vintage Uk, June 2, 2005, cover price $23.45 | About this edition: Sadly, the 10,000 dollars Muo offers Judge Di to free his beloved aren't enough.

The Virtuoso

Product Description: In Margriet de Moor's prizewinning novel a strange and extraordinary love story unfolds amid the carriages, churches, and shadowed harbors of eighteenth-century Naples. For one entire opera season, Carlotta, a Neapolitan duchess, sits in her candle-lit box captive to her passion for Gasparo, the tantalizing castrato with whom she has been smitten since their childhood together in a small Italian village...read more

By Margriet De Moor and Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780786252565 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In Margriet de Moor's prizewinning novel a strange and extraordinary love story unfolds amid the carriages, churches, and shadowed harbors of eighteenth-century Naples.

9781585670031 | Overlook Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A novel set in eighteenth-century Naples introduces Carlotta, a wealthy woman who is falling under the romantic spell of the castrati, Gasparo.

Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress

By Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9789990059731 | Random House Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $0.02

Paperback:

9789990154573 | 2 edition (Random House Inc, November 1, 2002), cover price $0.02

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamtress

At the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two young boys are sent to the country for 'reeducation' at a remote mountain village, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translations. A first novel.

By Ina Rilke and Dai Sijie

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739301012 | Unabridged edition (Random House, October 1, 2002), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two boys are sent to the country for reeducation, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western literature.

The Virtuoso

A novel set in eighteenth-century Naples introduces Carlotta, a wealthy aristocrat who is falling under the romantic spell of the castrato Gasparo. Reprint.

By Magriet Demoor and Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781585672530 | Reissue edition (Overlook Pr, February 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A novel set in eighteenth-century Naples introduces Carlotta, a wealthy aristocrat who is falling under the romantic spell of the castrato Gasparo.

Love's Death

Explores the devastating effect the death of a child has on parents, friends, and lovers after Oda and Paul Klein's eight-year-old daughter, Vera, drowns in a neighbor's pool.

By Oscar Van Den Boogaard and Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780374185855 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Explores the devastating effect the death of a child has on parents, friends, and lovers after Oda and Paul Klein's eight-year-old daughter, Vera, drowns in a neighbor's pool.

The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi

The arrival of two African princes in Holland in 1837 causes a deep disturbance among the two cousins, who find their innocence stripped away as they attend boarding school and learn European ways. 12,500 first printing.

By Arthur Japin and Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780375406751 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Their arrival in Holland in 1837 causes a deep disturbance among two African princes, Kwame and Kwasi, who find their innocence stripped away as they attend boarding school and learn European ways.

Roads to Santiago

In a collection of twenty-five original essays, the author of The Following Story chronicles his travels throughout Spain over the course of three decades, discussing his trip through La Mancha, the magnificent Prado Museum, a visit to the shrine of the Black Madonna of Guadalupe, and more. (view table of contents)

By Cees Nooteboom and Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780151001972 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1997), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In a collection of twenty-five essays the author chronicles his travels throughout Spain over the course of three decades, discussing his trip through La Mancha, the Prado Museum, and a visit to the shrine of the Black Madonna of Guadalupe

The Following Story

Herman Mussert, a former teacher of Latin and Greek, falls asleep in Amsterdam one evening, only to wake up in a hotel room in Lisbon with the fear that he is dead. Reprint. NYT.

By Cees Nooteboom and Ina Rilke (trans)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780151000982 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Herman Mussert, a former teacher of Latin and Greek, falls asleep in Amsterdam one evening, only to wake up in a hotel room in Lisbon with the fear that he is dead

Paperback:

9780156002547 | Mariner Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Herman Mussert, a former teacher of Latin and Greek, falls asleep in Amsterdam one evening, only to wake up in a hotel room in Lisbon with the fear that he is dead.

displaying 1 to 22 | at end