suddenlyI should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, for some time, seconds, hours, I can do nothing,suddenly I stopVioleta is driving along a lonely stretch of late-night motorway, in the midst of a fearsome storm.
Winners of the Inaugural Spain-USA Foundation Translation AwardInfused with the spirit of pulp fiction, b-movies, zines, and punk rock, The Fake Muse is a linguistic tour-de-force from the author of The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orp, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia.
Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize NomineeLonglisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award"e;Clark Blaises brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps and revelations, a portrait of individuals for whom we come to care deeply and a portrait of an Indo-American way of life that shimmers before our eyes with the rich and compelling detail for which Clark Blaises fiction is renowned .
»Die Wurzeln des Lebens« ist ein großer epischer Roman, der unseren Platz in der Welt neu vermisst - ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer Preis 2019 für LiteraturIn Richard Powers Erzählwelt ist alles miteinander verknüpft.
Ein Pfad zur Vorgeschichte des Herrn der RingeAusgabe zur SerienverfilmungVor unvordenklichen Zeiten wurden die Ringe der Macht von den Elben geschaffen und Sauron, der Dunkle Herrscher, schmiedete heimlich den Einen Ring und füllte ihn mit seiner Macht, auf dass er über alle anderen Ringe und ihre Träger gebieten konnte.
Handsome mechanics, struggling actresses, unhappy couples, and seemingly successful businessmen, Gigolo is an Edna Ferber short story collection that recounts the quiet private lives of everyday Americans.
Agatha Christie created magnificent works of suspense for the theater, and eight of her riveting stage dramas are collected in The Mousetrap and Other Playsincluding the title piece, the longest running play in history, still a smash hit in London's West End after 60 years!
On the bicentennial of Hans Christian Andersen's birth, this collection takes Andersen out of the nursery and places him squarely in the literary pantheon.
This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection-a finalist for the National Book Award-demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again.
Master of international intrigue Daniel Silva follows up his acclaimed #1 New York Times bestsellers The Order, The New Girl, and The Other Woman with this riveting, action-packed tale of espionage and suspense featuring art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon.
From the author of the “sophisticated and erudite” Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe) comes a collection of classic, witty fables, elegantly updated for our modern times.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE'Dazzling' GUARDIAN'Blistering' THE TIMES'A delight' DIANA EVANS'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMESAn electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.
Published to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl's (Welsh) birth, Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected breaks new ground by revealing the place of Wales in the imagination of the writer known as 'the world's number one storyteller'.
Between the ages of seventeen and twenty, Adrian Tomine self-published a series of "e;mini-comics"e;: small, hand-assembled booklets thta he wrote, drew, and distributed himself.
In this short story from the "e;stunning"e; collection More of this World, Maybe Another, a woman is about to marry a man she grew up with (Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of Bastard Out of California).
Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with ThreeBlind Mice and Other Storiesa classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis forThe Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater.
Helga Ruebsamen's extraordinary achievement in this, her first novel to be translated into English, is in finding a voice for a sensitive and highly imaginative child who must endure the painful transition from life in the paradise of the Dutch East Indies to the savage realities of wartime Holland.
Having abandoned his wife, life, family, and homeland, the narrator of My Year of Love flees to Paris to begin his life over again, and finds himself having to rescue himself from the freedom he believed he desired: "e;I would never have believed that freedom could be a form of captivity, freedom can be like a primeval forest or like the ocean, you can drown in it or disappear and never, never ever find your way out again .
