An interesting addition to fiction/memoirs of those who fought in WWI, this one by a sailor who was "shanghaied" to escape a prison term and who was on Imperial German ves...
A translation of DER WIEDERGÄNGER (Frankfort: Rütten & Loening Verlag, 1929). ". the story of a neurotic husband who commits suicide but lives again in the soul of another...
Originally published in 1968, The Secret Crypt is something of a cult classic in Mexican literature.
Elizondo's impassioned, breathless prose launches the reader into a...
An autobiographical novel recounting the author's experiences in a federal penitentiary. "A loosely related series of impressionistic sketches, often horrifying in content...
First published in 1929, The Seven Madmen perfectly captures the conflict of Argentine society, at a crucial moment in its history. Arlt's exploration of the still mys...
Dust jacket notes: "Within the broad sweep of intellectual history a truly revolutionary book must address itself to the educated general reader as well as to the speciali...
Philip and Margaret Waverton and their friend Roger Penderel are driving through the mountains of Wales when a torrential downpour washes away the road and forces them to ...
Imagine having the power to observe the dreams of others -- to have intimate knowledge of the most secret desires, the most dreaded terrors, the childish delights, the sex...
1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in...
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His...
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to th...
The Questionnaire (German: Der Fragebogen) is a 1951 autobiographical novel by the German writer Ernst von Salomon. It was published in the United Kingdom as The Answers. ...
Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential account of history, phi...
An ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the stifling summer of 1348, using the advantage of the plague which has collapsed soc...
A retired, senile bank clerk confined to his basement apartment, Tómas Jónsson decides that, since memoirs are all the rage, he’s going to write his own—a sure bestseller—...
Vorið 2003 kemur ungur maður örmagna og blóðugur inn í Þjónustumiðstöðina í Skaftafelli eftir hrakninga á öræfum. Hann heitir Bernharður Fingurbjörg, austurrískur örnefnaf...
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(0)Le Falcon verdi lasciavano coaguli sull'asfalto, la traccia degli pneumatici insanguinati. Cercai di camminare rasente il muro: non c'era nessuna porta attraverso cui entr...
Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the r...
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian...