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Die Regeln befolgen, die Spitzenclique hofieren, vom Lumpenpack abgrenzen: Damit ist die 16-jährige Adele immer gut durchgekommen. Bis jetzt ... Was es braucht, um in einer Realität voller Unrecht den eigenen moralischen Kompass zu finden - mitreißend erzählt Nunn von kolonialen Lebenswelten und verinnerlichter Korruption.

Strafversetzt nach Durban, stolpert Emmanuel Cooper über einen erstochenen jungen Inder, trifft auf eine Femme Fatale und weigert sich wegzusehen, als er zwischen mafiotische Interessen gerät. Doch ihn trügt sein Gefühl, dass er nichts mehr zu verlieren hat ...

Südafrika 1952 - Detective Emmanuel Cooper soll nahe der Grenze einen Mordfall aufklären. Fanatischer Oldschool-Rassismus und neue Segregationsgesetze erschweren die Wahrheitsfindung, eine Spezialeinheit will Apartheid-Gegner jagen, und in den Entscheidungspositionen sitzen nur Klotzköpfe. Einzig der umsichtige Zulu-Constable Shabalala und der alte Arzt Zweigman versuchen Cooper sachlich zur Seite zu stehen. Brandgefährlich wird es, als auch n...

From Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and a powerful story of how friendship saves and heals. Now in paperback.Fifteen-year-old Amandla's mother has always been strange. For starters, she's a white woman living in Sugar Town, one of South Africa's infamous shanty towns. She won't tell anyone, not even Amandla, about her past. And she has visions, includin...

From Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and a powerful story of how friendship saves and heals.When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. This one involves Amandla wearing a bedsheet loosely stitched as a dress. An outfit, her mother says, is certain to b...

This heartrending YA tale set in a Swaziland boarding school and featuring an unlikely friendship between girls of different castes won the LA Times Book Prize and is now available in paperback.Adele Joubert loves being one of the popular girls at Keziah Christian Academy. She knows the upcoming semester at school is going to be great with her best friend Delia at her side. Then Delia dumps her for a new girl with more money, and Adele is forc...

Edgar Award nominee stuns in this heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school where two girls of different castes bond over a shared copy of Jane Eyre.Adele Joubert loves being one of the popular girls at Keziah Christian Academy. She knows the upcoming semester at school is going to be great with her best friend Delia at her side. Then Delia dumps her for a new girl with more money, and Adele is forced to share a room with Lottie, th...

Malla Nunn was born in Swaziland, southern Africa, but moved to Australia in the 1970s. She studied theatre in America, where she met her husband and began writing and directing short films. Malla now lives in Sydney with her husband and two children.

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An einem frühen Oktobermorgen des Jahres 1953 wird Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper ins Gebirge geschickt, um einen Todesfall zu unter­suchen. Detective Constable Shabalala begleitet ihn als Übersetzer und Fährtenleser.Wie aufgebahrt liegt Amahle, 17-jährige Tochter eines Zulu-Chiefs, an einem Hang der Drakensberge. Jemand hat Wildblumen über das Mädchen gestreut und ihre Leiche mindestens eine Nacht lang vor Raubtieren beschützt. Doch weder...

Detective Emmanuel Cooper returns to solve a darkly romantic mystery in this rich and complex novel by Nunn, author of "Let the Dead Lie" and "A Beautiful Place to Die.

Set in the corrupt, unforgiving world of apartheid South Africa, this novel in the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series follows Cooper as he faces a test of loyalty and friendship.Five days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper sits at his desk at the Johannesburg major crimes squad, ready for his holiday in Mozambique. A call comes in: a respectable white couple has been assaulted and left for dead in their bedroom. The couple's te...

Includes an excerpt from Let the dead lie.

Australian filmmaker Nunn's follow-up to her classic murder mystery "A Beautiful Place to Die" once again features the intrepid sleuth, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper.

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