In recent years, the interest on life and work of the Jewish writer, philosopher, mystic and politician Shmuel Hugo Bergmann (1883-1975) has perceptibly increased.
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today.
'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.
A quirky, joyful queer love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of cult hit DIARY OF A VOID'Filled with movement and passion - a luminous story that reveals a whole world of desire and possibility' Rosie Price, author of THE ORANGE ROOMRika Horauchi s new part-time job is to converse with a statue of Venus in Latin every Monday, when the museum is closed.
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When the Menorah Fades is a fictionalized account of the town of Hadiach, Ukraine, a small Jewish community destroyed by Nazi occupation during World War II.
Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso L pez, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to prove to the world that the myth of Sim n Bol var, El Libertador, is a sham and a scandal.
In the late '60s, Julian Rios began work on what would have been his very first novel, but fearing that it wouldn't pass the stringent Spanish censorship under Franco, decided not to submit the completed book to publishers.
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Gubergur Bergsson achieved success with his novel Tmas Jnsson, Bestseller, which shocked Icelandic readers in innumerable ways, lashing out as it does at the Icelandic society of the post-war years for its cultural confusion, amorality, and hypocrisy.
One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth.
'This brilliant but devastatingly sad novel moved me so much, I began it again the moment I got to the end' Rose Tremain Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold.
"e;I envy how naturally she makes use of language; her resistance to ornamentation and artifice; and the almost stoic fortitude with which she dispenses her profound and penetrating knowledge of human nature.
'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers, particularly those known as Nihilists.
From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating and Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to guard a military checkpoint with no idea where they are or who the enemy might be.
Ein überwuchertes Eden voller ungewöhnlicher Pflanzen und Geheimnisse: Im Jahr 2020 beginnt Olivia Laing, eine der renommiertesten Literatinnen und Essayistinnen Englands, mit der Restaurierung eines verwunschenen Gartens in Suffolk.
Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.
The chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar J rn Lier Horst THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTING 'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMES'Tense, fast-paced, compelling' SUNDAY TIMES________ Five years ago, serial killer Tom Kerr was imprisoned.
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.
Voller Vorfreude bricht die Familie Stevens an die englische Südküste auf, mit sorgsam gepacktem Koffer und diesem wunderbar freien Gefühl im Bauch, wenn der Urlaub beginnt.
