From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secre...
Winner of the Booker Prize.
India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsio...
Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid was Malcolm Lowry's last book. It is an autobiographical novel of Lowry's return to Mexico to look for his friend Marquez. The ...
Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river.
A group of young people, cut off in Connemara by IRA action, are forced to come to terms with life and death. As the plot builds to its inevitable climax, their haunting e...
Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl B...
In diesem Fruhwerk, darunter zum ersten Mal ein Text des jungen Boll aus der Vorkriegszeit, wird der kritische und distanzierte Blick des engagierten Schriftstellers deutl...
Um dem hektischen Berlin zu entfliehen, reisen Claire und Wolfgang für drei ›leuchtende Tage‹ in das idyllische Rheinsberg. Sie necken, zanken, sie amüsieren und sie liebe...
In seinen Liebesromanen nimmt der berühmte Satiriker Kurt Tucholsky eine Art Auszeit von den politischen Kämpfen der Weimarer Republik. Zwar fehlt auch die Zeitkritik nich...
"Cry, the Beloved Country" is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing...
Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterw...
Sugar Street is the final novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
...
Apparso sulla "Nuova Antologia" fra il settembre e I'ottobre del 1936, pochi mesi dopo la morte dell'autrice, "Cosima" occupa un posto singolare nella produzione di Grazia...
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they f...
Irlanda, años 50. Lejos de la capital, Dublín, y en medio de un verde paisaje, bellísimo pero exigente, la joven y aplicada Caithleen ha crecido llena de encanto gracias a...
Caithleen (luego Kate) y Baba, dos amigas irlandesas —encantadoras unas veces, contradictorias otras—, se han instalado, tras una adolescencia de paisajes rurales e intern...
Il capitano Fausto, protagonista del libro, l'ufficiale che per un incidente di pace e non di guerra ha perso la vista e una mano, è un Achab senza Balena Bianca, prigioni...
Тонкий, атмосферный роман в духе Вирджинии Вулф, раскрывающий причуды памяти, природу любви и указывающий на хрупкость всего того, к чему мы, казалось бы, привыкли.
Что...
From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secre...
Winner of the Booker Prize.
India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsio...
Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid was Malcolm Lowry's last book. It is an autobiographical novel of Lowry's return to Mexico to look for his friend Marquez. The ...
Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river.
A group of young people, cut off in Connemara by IRA action, are forced to come to terms with life and death. As the plot builds to its inevitable climax, their haunting e...
Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl B...
In diesem Fruhwerk, darunter zum ersten Mal ein Text des jungen Boll aus der Vorkriegszeit, wird der kritische und distanzierte Blick des engagierten Schriftstellers deutl...
Um dem hektischen Berlin zu entfliehen, reisen Claire und Wolfgang für drei ›leuchtende Tage‹ in das idyllische Rheinsberg. Sie necken, zanken, sie amüsieren und sie liebe...
In seinen Liebesromanen nimmt der berühmte Satiriker Kurt Tucholsky eine Art Auszeit von den politischen Kämpfen der Weimarer Republik. Zwar fehlt auch die Zeitkritik nich...
"Cry, the Beloved Country" is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing...
Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterw...
Sugar Street is the final novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
...
Apparso sulla "Nuova Antologia" fra il settembre e I'ottobre del 1936, pochi mesi dopo la morte dell'autrice, "Cosima" occupa un posto singolare nella produzione di Grazia...
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they f...
Irlanda, años 50. Lejos de la capital, Dublín, y en medio de un verde paisaje, bellísimo pero exigente, la joven y aplicada Caithleen ha crecido llena de encanto gracias a...
Caithleen (luego Kate) y Baba, dos amigas irlandesas —encantadoras unas veces, contradictorias otras—, se han instalado, tras una adolescencia de paisajes rurales e intern...
Il capitano Fausto, protagonista del libro, l'ufficiale che per un incidente di pace e non di guerra ha perso la vista e una mano, è un Achab senza Balena Bianca, prigioni...
Тонкий, атмосферный роман в духе Вирджинии Вулф, раскрывающий причуды памяти, природу любви и указывающий на хрупкость всего того, к чему мы, казалось бы, привыкли.
Что...
