The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky—director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky’s Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature.
This volume makes available for the first time in English the work of a significant Indian nationalist author, Pandey Bechan Sharma, better known in India as "e;Ugra,"e; meaning "e;extreme.
Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions "e;a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera.
Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.
Berührend, unterhaltsam und provokant erzählt Du hast das Leben vor dir die Geschichte von Momo, einem Araberjungen ohne Eltern, und Madame Rosa, einer jüdischen Ex-Prostituierten in Paris.
A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond ChandlerThe Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.
The gripping new stand-alone mystery from 'world-class crime writer' Ragnar J nasson, soon to be a major motion picture'Is this the best crime writer in the world today' THE TIMES'So atmospheric, I was immediately transported to the Icelandic moors .
Buon Natale -- A Merry Christmas -- made all the more joyful with these literary treats filled with ancient churches, plates piled high with pasta, flowing wine, shimmering gifts and plenty of style.
Heaven Has No Groundis the fierce, intimate story of Ama, a young woman who is reckoning with the death of her father when she receives her own cancer diagnosis and, contrary to the wishes of family and friends, decides to seek alternative treatments rather than conventional chemotherapy and radiation.
Adichies preisgekrönter Afrika-Roman - schon jetzt ein WeltklassikerEine Geschichte über Liebe und Verrat, Rassismus und Loyalität und das Leben im zerstörerischen Alltag des Krieges.
The first English translation of the self-proclaimed "e;Viscount"e; Emilio Lascano Tegui-a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right-On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel, part Maldoror and part Dorian Gray, that established its author's reputation as a renegade hero of Argentine literature.
A moving spiritual masterpiece that shows the true meaning of divinity in a hostile world A young, shy, sickly priest is assigned to his first parish, a sleepy village in northern France.
April 1942, der Deutsch-Sowjetische Krieg tobt seit einem Jahr, doch im Hause der Familie Schaposchnikow mag man nicht glauben, dass die deutschen Truppen bis nach Stalingrad vorrücken könnten.
Dovlatov and Surroundingsis a literary ode by one of the most consequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, to another: Sergei Dovlatov.
Die vielfach mit Prousts Recherche und Lampedusas Der Leopard verglichene Romanfolge als SerieIn den turbulenten Jahren eines Künstlerlebens zwischen Neapel, Mailand und Paris emanzipiert sich der junge Giuliano von den Konventionen seiner Herkunft.
Ein Stück Weltliteratur: »Dein Gesicht morgen« von Javier MaríasJaime Deza hat die Begabung, hinter den Gesichtern von Menschen ungeahnte Seiten zu erkennen, auch bei sich selbst.
Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society's margins.
This is the story of a child with black eyes that float in and out of focus, a child soft and round, with translucent, blue-veined legs unable to hold his weight, an eternal baby.
Abraham Karpinowitz (1913-2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories.
In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist-the Parisian "e;Monster of Le Sentier"e;-is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite collection of computer monitors.
»Wie Annie Ernaux, aber lustig« Irène Bluche, rbb KulturDas kleinste gemeinsame Vielfache« ist ein Meisterwerk der Erzählkunst und eine berückend schöne Geschichte über ein unangepasstes Mädchen, das unbeirrt seinen Weg geht.
Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon's short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka.
