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.
A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fictionAfter Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed.
'I felt the powerful strength of my family overrunning me like a heavy rush of water'For Andr , a young man growing up on a farm in Brazil, life consists of 'the earth, the wheat, the bread, our table and our family'.
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.
'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes, frozen fingertips, an aftertaste of coffee.
A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to.
A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's Han dynastyPart historical and part legend, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatizes the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, recounting their personal and military battles, intrigues, and struggles to achieve dominance for almost a hundred years.
A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Mar as, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.
'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years.
The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami- AN FT BEST SUMMER READ 2023- OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN JAPAN- WINNER OF THE NAOKI PRIZE AND THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD- A MAJOR MOVIE RELEASE IN JAPAN'A thrilling and often nail-biting depiction of music, friendship, and personal demons' OBSERVER'Propulsive and poetic' KIRKUS______________________Welcome to a magical world of music, friendship and rivalry .
Martha and the infamous League of Pensioners are back in The Little Old Lady Strikes Back, from the author of the smash-hit The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules.
"e;Comparisons do not do justice to the complexity of Stefansson's book, nor the uniqueness of his prose"e; DANIEL MASON, author of North Woods"e;Stef nsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy"e; EILEEN BATTERSBY, TLS"e;A rich depiction of life, love and loss .
Don't let me fall ist der erste Band der fesselnden und mitreienden neuen cozy Slow-Burn-Hockey-Romance von USA Today-Bestsellerautorin Kelsie Rae um Colt, einen Villain Type, der fur Ash zum Golden Boy werden mochteSie ist die eine Frau, die er nicht haben kann.
Eines Morgens wird Renata von einem unbandigen Freiheitsdrang erfasst: Sie kundigt ihre Stelle als Hausmadchen, setzt sich auf die Parkbank zu den Vogeln, lasst den Alltag vorbeistreifen.
Ein vielschichtiges Epos uber Liebe, Familie, Exil und das Weiterleben nach der KatastropheEin gro er judischer Familienroman uber vier Mitglieder einer judischen Familie aus Wien, die durch Krieg, Schuld und die Schatten der Geschichte voneinander getrennt wurden.
"e;Stressed-out, sleep-deprived and pill-popping Dr Tekla Berg is as unusual a central character as you will find"e; Irish Independent"e;Tekla is a terrific character"e; Literary Review"e;Tekla Berg is a brilliant character"e; Susi Holliday"e;A memorable protagonist"e; Imran MahmoodA mysterious drive-by shooting in a Stockholm suburb leaves two victims hovering between life and death at the Nobel Hospital, where Tekla Berg fights to save their lives.
