Commedia - Die preisgekrönte Neuübersetzung von Kurt Flasch jetzt im TaschenbuchDantes ›Commedia‹ ist wie der Dom, der zu seiner Zeit in Florenz entstand: Zahllose Ein- und Ausgänge führen unter eine große Kuppel, in der die Geschichten und Figuren, die Biographien und das Wissen ihrer Zeit unendlich nachhallen.
An intimate, heartbreaking autobiographical novel of an Algerian Muslim family’s exile from home and unwelcoming reception in France This moving tale of imprisonment and escape, persecution and loss, is narrated by the daughter of an alleged Harki, an Algerian soldier who fought for the French during the Algerian War for Independence.
The novellas and stories in American Originals convey the power of the West Texas desert to swallow peopleliterally, or through the rituals of labor, or through the raptures of ecstatic vision, induced by blessings or madnessand people's ability to forge connections in spite of extreme conditions.
Los estudios que configuran Elogio de lo mínimo contribuyen, dentro del marco de florecimiento de las TIC, al análisis de la consolidación y de la proliferación del microrrelato en diversos soportes digitales, especialmente en bitácoras, revistas digitales, redes sociales, etc.
A Clear View of the Southern Sky reveals women in the twenty-first century doing what women have always done in pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
Winner of the 2016 Trillium Book AwardFinalist for the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeNominated for the 2015 Danuta Gleed Literary AwardOne of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015One of 49th Shelf's Books of the Year, 2015The eleven remarkable stories in Kevin Hardcastle’s debut Debris introduce an authentic new voice.
Neil Gaiman's award-winning novella The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains is a haunting story of family, the otherworld, and a search for hidden treasure, and was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime in November 2015.
A collection of stories based on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, which led to World War I Stephen-Paul Martin's The Ace of Lightning is a series of interconnected stories focused on a turning point in Western history: the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria which triggered World War I, and the mysterious circumstances that led Gavrilo Princip to shoot and kill the heir apparent to one of Europe's most powerful empires.
Considered one of Morocco's most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostitutes, thieves, and addicts living in the margins of society.
Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, this book reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts.
Eleven sparkling stories of family, love, and art from New York Times–bestselling author David LipskyMy mother doesn’t know that I owe my father three thousand dollars.
A poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Nairnby the author who went on to create The Worm Ouroborosand the groundbreaking Zimiamvia fantasy trilogy.
Aus dem dünnen Spalt zwischen der Einsamkeit des Übungsraums und der Anonymität der Orchesterreihen erscheinen Fantasien, Beobachtungen, gesellschaftliche Aphorismen.
Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart.
These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, Babette s Feast , which was made into the classic film.
An epic saga of love, blood, and destiny in twentieth-century Vietnam: ';This superb novel could well be the War and Peaceof our age' (San Francisco Chronicle).
