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.
Der alte Boa Morte zieht durch die Gassen Lissabons, findet Obdach in verborgenen Winkeln, lauscht dem Gebimmel erzürnter Straßenbahnen und dem Gesang der Betrunkenen.
'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money money' Sunday Express'The latest Norwegian crime-writing sensation' Sunday Times Her name is Mia Kruger, and it is she who makes this superb story very special indeed.
Après des années à se faire trimballer d’une famille d’accueil à l’autre, la douce Cedar rencontre son père et part vivre avec lui, espérant que s’ouvre enfin un chapitre plus calme de sa vie.
'One of the most exquisite debuts I've read' - Daily Telegraph'Affecting and haunting' - ObserverAfter the death of his wife, a father in a forgotten corner of France raises his two sons alone.
The cult classic from one of France's most stylish writers'Don't give a damn,' says Zazie, 'what I wanted was to go in the metro'Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel.
*Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award*Eliete is forty (-something) Eliete has been married to Jorge for twenty years Eliete has an average career as an average estate agent Eliete has a completely normal life Eliete has reached breaking-point Eliete is stuck in both a dead-end job, and a dead-end marriage.
Translated for the first time in English, Lev Levanda's brilliant coming-of-age story of Russian Jewish students on the cusp of modernityin their struggle against religious chauvinism and an oppressive government.
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO GUARDIAN AND THE SPECTATOR The final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century'No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Mar as .
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD 2016'Undoubtedly the most powerful work of crime fiction I have read this year' Independent'Vivid and harrowing' Sunday Times'Police procedural, romance, thriller The Murderer in Ruins has a bit of everything and it's one hell of a read.
A feminist pioneer, writer, and patron of the arts and literature in Buenos Aires, Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979) was a larger-than-life personality of legendary vitality.
Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the Well, in 1686.
Einer der wichtigsten Textes des französischen Existenzialismus und der letzte vollendete Roman des Nobelpreisträgers Albert Camus in neuer Übersetzung: «Der vielleicht schönste und am wenigsten verstandene seiner Romane» Jean-Paul SartreIm Amsterdamer Hafenviertel legt Jean-Baptiste Clamence, ehemals angesehener Anwalt, eine atemberaubende Beichte ab: Selbstgefälligkeit und Opportunismus seien die eigentlichen Triebfedern seines Rechtsbewusstseins gewesen.
Dovlatovand Surroundings is a literary ode by one of the mostconsequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, toanother: Sergei Dovlatov.
At the age of 85, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers when her darkly funny and formally daring novel, Cousins, won Pagina/12's New Novel Award.
[A] gripping mix of stories and poems interwoven with moments of quiet, affecting beauty This remarkable work rescues an important 20th-century Israeli voice from obscurity.
'Devastating and fascinating' New York Times'Ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose' ObserverA group of respectable family men are charged with the brutal murder of a teenager.
'Mesmerising and utterly absorbing' New York Times'A magnificent storyteller' Der Spiegel A retired small-town doctor takes a garden axe to his cruel wife.
Forging documents in an Egyptian government office, a bureaucrat 'authorizes' a police department for a nonexistent city in Upper Egypt in order to siphon off its monthly payroll.
Invited to a quiet Swiss chteau by the enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann, Anne begins to slowly write a novel in a language that is not hers, a language that makes meaning foreign and keeps her alert to the world and its fiery horizon.
"e;A cerebral explorer of the problems of narrative in the wake of Joyce and Woolf, of Borges, of Rulfo and Arlt, Saer is also a stunning poet of place.
Told more or less in reverse chronological order, High Tide is a psychological mystery about Ieva, her dead lover, her imprisoned husband, and the way their youthful decisions dramatically impacted the rest of their lives.
"e;Carlos Labbe's [Navidad & Matanza] begins to fuck with your head from its very first word—moving through journalese, financial reporting, whodunit, Joseph Conrad, Raymond Chandler, Nabokov to David Lynch.
