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The highly anticipated books of the year

The year 2014 will also be very fruitful in terms of new bestsellers that will delight all book lovers. GQ magazine compiled a list of the ten most anticipated.

The award-winning novelist returns with a new bestseller Emma Donoghue. Frog music hits the shelves in March, but we'll see if she can outdo her much-hyped novel Room. In the novella, the writer returns to historical fiction, and the story takes place in the fall of 1867 in San Francisco, namely when a prostitute finds a murderer and goes in search of her kidnapped child. Dark, dramatic and just as tense as her previous novel.

After being in a bestselling book Boomerang tackled the financial crisis, se Michael Lewis returns with a book Flash Boys, whose release is announced on March 31. Very little is known about the actual story of the novel for now, but literary critics are sure that this book by Lewis will also be a success.

Tony Parsons is a well-known columnist for GQ magazine and an established author of crime novels. In May, he returns with a new suspenseful book bestseller, which bears the title The murder bag. The thriller heralds a new direction as the first of three crime novellas in which the main character is a detective Max Wolfe.

Lena Dunham has been called the 'voice of her generation' several times. She achieved fame in 2012, when her television series Girls first appeared on the small screen, and now the 27-year-old actress, producer and screenwriter is also presenting her first book. Not that kind of girl is full of advice on super fast internet diets and failed relationships.

When his publicist said in August that the novella Haruki Murakami the end of the year is coming to the bookshelves, everyone is covered in euphoria. A novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage many compare it to the best-selling book of all time, Harry Potter, at least in terms of popularity. Since the book was published in Japan, they have already sold several million copies.

Don't be put off by the long title, the author's novel Philip Gourevitch is one of the most anticipated this year. In the book You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know the author is returning to Rwanda, he already wrote about the genocide there in a bestseller from 1998. This time he decided to show a society that is still divided by one of the biggest conflicts of the 20th century, one that still reverberates in Rwanda and its neighbors countries.

Blood will come out is a writer's thriller Walter Kirn and revolves around his 15-year relationship with the mysterious banker Clark Rockefeller. They met under suspicious circumstances when the writer had to bring an injured dog from his home in Montana to Rockefeller's apartment in New York. The story gets complicated when Kirn learns that Rockefeller is not what he says he is.

Colm Tóibín he has competed for the Man Booker Prize twice in the past, but has not yet won it. That may change in October, when his publication about Crazy Webster. The story takes place in Scotland in the 1960s and Nora has just lost the love of her life.

Martin Amis for the first time since 1991 and the novel Time's arrow, returns to the time of the Holocaust in a work The Zone, the story of which takes place in a concentration camp, where a Nazi soldier falls in love with the commandant's wife. The work does not lack Amis's satirical view of life.

Last but not least expected is the book The death of the poet. It is a debut novella N by Quentin Wolff, which by the end of the year will definitely be on many charts. It stars radio host John Knox as a psychological victim of his love interest and local beauty Rachel McAllistair. The work explores what it means to be a man and what someone would go through for love in the modern world.

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