›Molly und Mary‹ ist eine Geschichte vom Wachsen und Reifen, von Liebe und Besessenheit, Verführung und Verwandlung und zugleich die Geschichte einer wunderbaren Frauenfreundschaft.
Von einem Kumpel aus alten Tagen empfohlen, taucht der Mann bei dem ehrbar gewordenen Gangster Terry Byass auf und bietet eine riesige Summe für eine todsichere Sache; eigentlich nicht mehr als eine kleine Gefälligkeit.
Ein Roman über die Sehnsucht, der von Lebenserwartungen und Enttäuschungen erzähltEine Fahrt in die Gegend ihrer Kindheit läßt Janets alte Träume wieder wach werden: Landschaften, Gerüche und Farben des Mittleren Westens der USA und nicht zuletzt die Wiederbegegnung mit ihrem Schwager Carl, den sie einmal geliebt hat, wecken längst vergessen geglaubte Gefühle und die Sehnsucht, wieder so zu leben wie früher, auf einer Farm inmitten der Natur.
Gabriel Garc a M rquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, explores the loneliness of power in Autumn of the Patriarch.
Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again.
Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HUMMINGBIRD'The dawn will still be far away, and you will lift your eyes to the sky, and the sky will be as black as sackcloth and ashes'Addressed to a 'you' that encompasses the author, the reader and all of us at once, narrated in the future tense of apocalyptic texts and inspired by Sandro Veronesi's own experience of caring for his elderly parents, Prophecy is a powerful and unforgettable story of immense grief and infinite love.
'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky's work' Malcolm BradburyAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life.
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Mar as, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.
Composed throughout Cervantes's writing life and mentioned in Don Quixote, his Exemplary Stories are among the first and finest Spanish short stories: ranging from traditional tales of love to incisive moral fables.
In the final years of his prominent life, Chekhov moved away from the realism of his earlier tales, and developed a broader range of characters and subject matter, while forging the spare minimalist style that would inspire modern short-story writers such as Hemingway and Faulkner.
'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.
The Mermaid in the Bathtub is a charming, gorgeously retro retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story "e;The Little Mermaid,"e; by beloved Israeli author and illustrator duo Nurit Zarchi and Rutu Modan.
When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida.
Between jobs and feeling financially strapped, gun-for-hire Hannah Nicks takes on an assignment that promises easy money and an all-expenses-paid vacation on the Mexican Riviera.
This rich and unforgettable story of sexual intrigue and political scheming, written by the Spanish feminist and intellectual Emilia Pardo Bazan, deserves recognition as one of the great nineteenth-century novels.
