"Longlisted for the German Book Prize.A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Léon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus' French grandfather. It charmed readers in Germany, where it sold nearly two hundred thousand copies and, in the year following publication, never left the Der Spiegel bestseller list.Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon falls in love with Louise Janvier. ..."
Life is Good द्वारा AlexCapus, John Brownjohn Paperback, 160 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2018 द्वारा Haus Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-910376-92-8, ISBN: 1-910376-92-2
"Max has been married to Tina for twenty-five years. She is the love of his life, but now he must come to terms with the fact that she is to spend a year away on a work assignment—away, for the first time, from their home, their children and their life together. Her absence leaves him feeling like an Odysseus in reverse: he stays put whilehis Penelope goes out into the world. Max, alone with his three teenage sons for the first time, is ..."
Sailing by Starlight In Search of Treasure Island (Haus Publishing - Literary Travellers) द्वारा AlexCapus, John Brownjohn Paperback, 220 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2013 द्वारा Haus Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-907973-74-1, ISBN: 1-907973-74-5
"Capus takes us on an exploratory journey via the loss of a Spanish vessel laden with gold and jewels in the South Seas, the burial of treasure, an ancient map, and a long and dangerous voyage across the Pacific, to prove that Robert Louis Stevenson's "treasure island" actually exists; and that it exists in a place quite different from where hordes of treasure-hunters have been seeking it for generations. In fact, he posits, it was for t ..."
"Alex Capus tells the true story of Switzerland's most notorious bank robbers, Kurt Sandweg and Waldemar Velte. As the Great Depression tightens its grip, and Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow gain notoriety in Texas, a series of bank robberies make headlines in Switzerland. The prime suspects are two young men, who steal small sums of money from city banks, and are unafraid to use force when faced with capture.Meanwhile, a shop assistant i ..."
A Matter of Time(Reprint) द्वारा AlexCapus, John Brownjohn Paperback, 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2013 द्वारा Haus Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-907822-03-2, ISBN: 1-907822-03-8
""Beautifully rendered in John Brownjohn's translation . . . [a] magnificent novel."—Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland"A war-torn farce worth waiting for."—The IndependentIt is November 1913 and three German shipbuilders, led by master shipwright Anton Rüter, are ordered by Kaiser Wilhelm to dismantle a steam ship, send the parts to German East Africa, and reassemble it on Lake Tanganyika. But their aim of getting the job ..."
Skidoo A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West (Haus Publishing - Armchair Traveller) द्वारा AlexCapus, John Brownjohn, Simon Pare Hardcover, 84 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2014 द्वारा Haus Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-907973-95-6, ISBN: 1-907973-95-8
"Decades after westward expansion swept over it, settled it, and domesticated it, the Wild West remains a potent source of American myth and mystery. But the actual history, and the traces of it that remain, are at least as interesting as the fiction, and in Skidoo, writer and novelist Alex Capus takes us on a fascinating tour of the skeleton of the American Westthe ghost towns and collapsing mines that lie far from interstates and airp ..."
Sailing by Starlight In Search of Treasure Island (Haus Publishing - Literary Travellers) द्वारा AlexCapus, John Brownjohn, Simon Pare Hardcover, 192 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2011 द्वारा Haus Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-906598-78-5, ISBN: 1-906598-78-9
"Capus takes us on an exploratory journey via the loss of a Spanish vessel laden with gold and jewels in the South Seas, the burial of treasure, an ancient map, and a long and dangerous voyage across the Pacific, to prove that Robert Louis Stevenson's "treasure island" actually exists; and that it exists in a place quite different from where hordes of treasure-hunters have been seeking it for generations. In fact, he posits, it was for t ..."
"Broschiertes BuchNur einmal können die drei einander begegnet sein: Im November 1924 am Hauptbahnhof in Zürich, wo die Geschichte einsetzt. Danach führen ihre Wege auseinander und bleiben doch auf eigentümliche Weise miteinander verbunden. Der pazifistische Jüngling Felix Bloch studiert Atomphysik bei Heisenberg in Leipzig, flüchtet 1933 in die USA und gerät nach Los Alamos, wo er Robert Oppenheimer beim Bau der Atombombe helfen soll. D ..."
"Alex Capus’s novels have been runaway best-sellers in Germany, and his novel Léon and Louise received widespread critical acclaim on its English publication in 2012. A Price to Pay, the fourth of Capus’s novels to be published in English, tells the interwoven stories of three disparate figures from interwar Switzerland: pacifist Felix Bloch, who ends up working on the Manhattan Project; Laura d’Oriano, who wants to become a singer b ..."
Leon Et Louise (French Edition) द्वारा AlexCapus Paperback, 320 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2014 द्वारा Actes Sud ISBN-13: 978-2-330-02856-5, ISBN: 2-330-02856-3
"En explorant la vie secrète de son propre grand-père sur plus de quarante ans, Alex Capus signe le roman d'un amour plus fort que le tourbillon de la vie, une épopée intime irrésistible."
Leon and Louise द्वारा AlexCapus, John Brownjohn Paperback, 265 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2012 द्वारा Haus Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-907822-52-0, ISBN: 1-907822-52-6
"It's summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Leon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, first meets and falls in love with Louise Janvier. Severely wounded by a German artillery attack, they are separated, both mistakenly believing each other to be dead. Ten years later, while travelling on the Paris Metro, Leon - now married - briefly catches sight of a girl who bears ..."
Léon et Louise (Romans, nouvelles, récits Textes allemands ) द्वारा AlexCapus प्रकाशित 2012 द्वारा Actes Sud Editions ISBN-13: 978-2-330-00946-5, ISBN: 2-330-00946-1
Das Leben ist gut Roman द्वारा AlexCapus Paperback, 240 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2018 द्वारा Dtv Verlagsgesellschaft ISBN-13: 978-3-423-14631-9, ISBN: 3-423-14631-1
"Rare Book"
Fast ein bisschen Frühling द्वारा AlexCapus Hardcover, प्रकाशित 2012 द्वारा Hanser, Carl Gmbh + Co. ISBN-13: 978-3-446-23917-3, ISBN: 3-446-23917-0
Himmelsstürmer द्वारा AlexCapus Paperback, 207 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2010 द्वारा Btb Taschenbuch ISBN-13: 978-3-442-74075-8, ISBN: 3-442-74075-4
Reisen im Licht der Sterne Eine Vermutung (Paperback) द्वारा AlexCapus Paperback, 240 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2007 द्वारा Btb Verlag ISBN-13: 978-3-442-73659-1, ISBN: 3-442-73659-5
"Kein Roman und auch kein Krimi, und doch eines der spannendsten Bücher der Saison: Der Schweizer Autor Alex Capus reist auf den Spuren des berühmten Robert Louis Stevensons in die Südsee und betätigt sich als Detektiv. Ausgangspunkt ist eine Wendung in Stevensons Leben, der seine zahlreichen Biografen in Capus Augen zu wenig Beachtung geschenkt haben: Warum ließ sich der schwer lungenkranke Dichter für den Rest seines Lebens auf Samoa n ..."
Le roi d'Olten द्वारा AlexCapus Paperback, प्रकाशित 2023 द्वारा Florides Helvètes ISBN-13: 978-2-940733-56-9, ISBN: 2-940733-56-2
Life is Good द्वारा AlexCapus 160 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2018 द्वारा Haus Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-910376-93-5, ISBN: 1-910376-93-0
"ALEX CAPUS is a French-Swiss novelist who writes in German. His bestselling
novel Léon and Louise was longlisted for the German Book Prize in 2011. His
other works include A Matter of Time (2009), Almost Like Spring (2013), A Price
to Pay (2014) and the travelogues Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure
Island ..."