In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips & animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias
- long-thought dead
- returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst. Irimias will divide & rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence & greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness & futility of their existence. He soon attains a messaianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk & a series of increasingly brutal events unfold. Satantango follows the villagers as they are exploited & taken in by Irimias; as they drink & stumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake & ultimate demise. In its measured prose & long, Tolstoyan sentences, Satantango is nothing short of a literary masterpiece; a formal meditation on death & avarice, human fallibility & faith.

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In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips & animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias
- long-thought dead
- returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst. Irimias will divide & rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence & greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness & futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk & a series of increasingly brutal events unfold. Satantango follows the villagers as they are exploited & taken in by Irimias; as they drink & stumble their way toward the gradual realization of their mistake & ultimate demise. In its measured prose & long, Tolstoyan sentences, Satantango is nothing short of a literary masterpiece; a formal meditation on death & avarice, human fallibility & faith.

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Oslo, 1969. When a wealthy man collapses & dies during a dinner party, Norwegian Police Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen, known as K2, is left shaken. For the victim, Magdalon Schelderup, a multimillionaire businessman & former resistance fighter, had contacted him only the day before, fearing for his life. It soon becomes clear that every one of Schelderup`s ten dinner guests is a suspect in the case. The businessman was disliked, even despised, by many of those close to him; & his recently revised Will may have set events in motion. But which of the guests
- from his current & former wives & three children to his attractive secretary & old cohorts in the resistance
- had the greatest motive for murder? With the inestimable help of Patricia
- a brilliant, acerbic young woman who lives an isolated life at home, in her wheelchair
- K2 begins to untangle the lies & deceit within each of the guests` testimonies. But as the investigators receive one mysterious letter after another warning of further deaths, K2 realises he must race to uncover the killer. Before they strike again.. .A gripping, evocative & ingenious mystery which pays homage to Agatha Christie, Satellite People is the second Norwegian mystery in Hans Olav Lahlum`s series. The third, The Catalyst Killing, will follow soon.. .



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Meet U.
- a talented & uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers
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The Satmap Active 10 is a lightweight, rugged, easy-to-use GPS unit using Ordnance Survey mapping, ideal for walking or mountain biking. The unit comes with Ordnance Survey UK 1:250, 000 Road Atlas maps already installed, & has an SD card slot for loading extra maps ...

The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man
- a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind &
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This cult classic of working class life in post-war Nottingham follows the exploits of rebellious factory worker Arthur Seaton & is introduced by Richard Bradford. Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting hooligan, he knows what he wants, & he`s sharp enough to get it. Before long, his carryings-on with a couple of married women become the stuff of local gossip. But then one evening he meets a young girl & life begins to look less simple... First published in 1958, ` Saturday Night & Sunday Morning` achieved instant critical acclaim & helped to establish Alan Sillitoe as one of the greatest British writers of his generation. The film of the novel, starring Albert Finney, transformed British cinema & was much imitated. ...

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- Region Schlicherheimat area of the Austrian Alps presented at 1:50, 000 in a series of contoured


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General map of the country with physical relief represented by altitude tinting & spot heights. Swamp, sand & coral areas are distinguished, & seasonal rivers are marked. The map is double-sided, dividing the country into north & south sections with a generous overlap of coverage. Intermediate driving distances are shown on main roads. Some tracks, railways & oil & gas pipelines are shown, & symbols denote such features as historic sites, airports, ports, places of interest, oil fields & terminals & border crossing points. Internal regions & their respective centres of administration are shown. A table lists populations of major town & cities & an inset map shows the streets & notable locations of central Riyadh. The map is indexed. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1 ...