DIY Book Club | Translated Books
Go to DIY Book Club Menu
![Death in Venice [Paperback]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0060576057/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Death in Venice : and other stories [Book Club Set]
Books
A new translation of the Nobel laureate's famous classic follows the story of successful aging writer Gustave von Aschenbach, whose search for spiritual fulfillment in Venice leads to erotic ruin when he becomes obsessed with an alluring Polish youth, Tadzio.
![The dinner [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781921758522/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The dinner [Book Club Set]
Books
Paul Lohman and his wife Claire are going out to dinner with Paul's brother Serge, a charismatic and ambitious politician, and his wife Babette. Paul knows the evening will not be fun. The restaurant will be over-priced and pretentious, the head waiter will bore on about the organically...
![Go Went Gone [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781846276224/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Go Went Gone [Book Club Set]
Books
Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas. But now he is retired, his library remains packed up in boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Alexanderplatz, he discovers a new community--a group of African asylum seekers...
![The history of bees [book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781471165689/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The history of bees [book Club Set]
Books
England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive-one that will give both him and his children honour and fame. United States, 2007.
![The housekeeper and the professor [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780099521341/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The housekeeper and the professor [Book Club Set]
He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him.
![The list of my desires [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780297868354/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The list of my desires [Book Club Set]
Books
![My brilliant friend. [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781925240009/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
My brilliant friend. [Book Club Set]
The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else.
![The red-haired woman [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143792963/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The red-haired woman [Book Club Set]
From the Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author Orhan Pamuk is The Red-Haired Woman, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. ...
![The tree of the Toraja [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780857057709/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The tree of the Toraja [Book Club Set]
Books
A middle-aged filmmaker visits Indonesia and becomes entranced by the Toraja custom of interning the bodies of very young deceased children in the trunks of trees. In time, the trunk heals, encasing and protecting the tiny bodies as the tree grows slowly heavenwards.
![The Meursault investigation [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781780748399/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
The Meursault investigation [Book Club Set]
Books
He was the brother of 'the Arab' killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Angry at the world and his own unending solitude, he resolves to bring his brother out of obscurity by giving him a name - Musa - and a voice, and by describing the events that ...
![Snow White must die [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781447227076/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
Snow White must die [Book Club Set]
Books
On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Olive...
![A whole life [Paperback]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781447281894/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)
A whole life [Book Club Set]
'Heart-rending and heart-warming...for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel.' Jim Crace Andreas lives his wholelife in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he does...
![The Post Office Girl [Book Club Set]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780954221720/mc.gif&client=bays&upc=&oclc=)