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År 1965 släpper Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited", ett album som inte bara fångar tidsandan utan också omdefinierar populärmusiken genom att skildra de mörka sidorna av den amerikanska drömmen med en unik blandning av poesi och rock. Highway 61 är inte bara en metafor. Det är en verklig väg som sträcker sig genom USA, från norr till söder. En väg som passerar både Dylans barndomshem samt födelseplatserna för flera blues- och rocklegender som Elvis Presley och Muddy Waters. En väg som ekar av musikhistoria.

Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn’t know him, another man is living in his house under his name, and the neighbors think he’s a raving lunatic. Worse, not a single person - family, colleague, or doctor - can vouch for him. Worse still, the impostor shares all of Martin’s memories, experiences, and knowledge, down to the last detail. He is, in fact, a more convincing Martin than Martin himself.

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 'A dazzling piece of historical re-imagining and a revolutionary sermon, a furious denunciation of inequality' The judges of the International Booker prize. The fight for equality begins in the streets. From the internationally bestselling...

Delving into the last gasps of the First Indochina War, which saw the communist Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam, Éric Vuillard vividly illustrates the attitudes that both enabled French colonialist abuses and ultimately led to their defeat and withdrawal. From the Michelin rubber plantation, where horrific working conditions sparked an epidemic of suicides, to the battlefield, a sense of superiority over the "yellow men" pervaded European and American forces.

'A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster' Guardian Winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt Éric Vuillard’s gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European powers in the run-up to World War Two...