Set in an Armenian mountain village immediately after the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, these thirty-one linked short stories trace the interconnected lives of villagers tending to their everyday tasks, engaging in quotidian squabbles, and celebrating small joys against a breathtaking landscape.
'Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears' GuardianLev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian migr s.
'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' Guardian'Juan Mars 's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable' Times Literary SupplementFrom one of Spain's most acclaimed authors, comes an extraordinary novel about ambition and longing set against the backdrop of post-war Barcelona.
Eine Flucht vor den Nazis und ein Geheimnis, das bis in die Gegenwart reichtEin jüdischer Kunstsammler rettet sich mit Fluchthelfern vor den Nazis in die Schweiz, doch seine Spur verliert sich im Dickicht eines Waldes.
Der neue Roman des japanischen NobelpreisträgersEin großes Lebensrätsel treibt Kenzaburô Ôe seit Jahrzehnten um: der mysteriöse Tod seines Vaters, der im Sommer 1945 während eines mächtigen Sturms in ein Boot stieg und im Fluss unter ungeklärten Umständen umkam.
The latest book in the internationally bestselling Erast Fandorin Mysteries series'Readers can expect prime Akunin - ingenious, twisty, exotic' Daily Mail Crimea, 1914.
Soul-shattering and profound detective novel from the international award-winning sensationWHAT YOU DON'T KNOWCAN NEVER HURT YOUTHE UNKNOWNMazal Bengtson doesn't know what her husband was doing on the night of the storm.
At the height of Stalin's postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn's basic theme: the individual's experience of acquiring an immortal soul.
'Der Duft des Regens auf dem Balkan' erzählt die Geschichte der sephardisch-jüdischen Familie Salom aus Sarajevo, deren Leben mit dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs eine radikale Wendung nimmt.
Desire and tragedy upset the lives of an Israeli family in this “thrilling, fresh, and surprising” debut novel from the award-winning filmmaker (ForeWord Review).
"e;One of the great novels to have been written in our language"e; MARIO VARGAS LLOSA"e;Beautifully written and gripping"e; GuardianHe thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen.
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love.
CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 202349th SHELF EDITORS' PICK FOR JUNE 2023When a family is forced to return to the mothers childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent beauty of the natural world.
Thornton Wilder: Die Tagebücher des großen klassischen Autors der modernen amerikanischen LiteraturThornton Wilders Tagebücher bieten eine faszinierende Möglichkeit, einen der bedeutendsten modernen Schriftsteller bei seiner schöpferischen Arbeit, und die stete intellektuelle Anstrengung eines Künstlers zu erleben, der wie kaum ein anderer über das kulturelle Erbe der westlichen Zivilisation verfügte.
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture.
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"e;A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever.
Der Erste Weltkrieg und 100 Jahre danach - überall dieselbe Sehnsucht nach Frieden und MenschlichkeitElisabeths Leben ändert sich schlagartig, als sie unerwartet ein Bündel alter Briefe und dazu ein verwunschenes Haus fernab von Paris erbt.
