Before Disney and far from the palm-lined Florida beaches, ten-year-old Danny Ryan is transplanted to a tiny community on the hyacinth-choked Hillsborough River outside Tampa, a place his older sister calls Nowhere.
Heaven Has No Groundis the fierce, intimate story of Ama, a young woman who is reckoning with the death of her father when she receives her own cancer diagnosis and, contrary to the wishes of family and friends, decides to seek alternative treatments rather than conventional chemotherapy and radiation.
Adichies preisgekrönter Afrika-Roman - schon jetzt ein WeltklassikerEine Geschichte über Liebe und Verrat, Rassismus und Loyalität und das Leben im zerstörerischen Alltag des Krieges.
Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit.
When Jean ThompsonAmericas Alice Munro (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)is telling stories, You cannot put the book down (The Seattle Times), and her superlative new collection, Do Not Deny Me, is one to be savored, word by word.
"Cox's hopeful, heartwarming novel touches on complicated relationships, the value of friendship, and the impact of trauma with great heart and kindness.
The first English translation of the self-proclaimed "e;Viscount"e; Emilio Lascano Tegui-a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right-On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel, part Maldoror and part Dorian Gray, that established its author's reputation as a renegade hero of Argentine literature.
A moving spiritual masterpiece that shows the true meaning of divinity in a hostile world A young, shy, sickly priest is assigned to his first parish, a sleepy village in northern France.
#1 New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Stephen King teams up with Bev Vincent of Cemetery Dance to present a terrifying collection of sixteen short stories (and one poem) that tap into one of King's greatest fearsair travelfeaturing previously unpublished stories by King and Joe Hill, ';an expertly compiled collection of tales that entertain and scare' (Booklist).
April 1942, der Deutsch-Sowjetische Krieg tobt seit einem Jahr, doch im Hause der Familie Schaposchnikow mag man nicht glauben, dass die deutschen Truppen bis nach Stalingrad vorrücken könnten.
Dovlatov and Surroundingsis a literary ode by one of the most consequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, to another: Sergei Dovlatov.
Originally published in "e;Harper's Magazine"e; in 1903 and 1904, "e;Italian Fantasies"e; is a 1910 work by British author Israel Zangwill (1864-1926).
Die vielfach mit Prousts Recherche und Lampedusas Der Leopard verglichene Romanfolge als SerieIn den turbulenten Jahren eines Künstlerlebens zwischen Neapel, Mailand und Paris emanzipiert sich der junge Giuliano von den Konventionen seiner Herkunft.
Ein Stück Weltliteratur: »Dein Gesicht morgen« von Javier MaríasJaime Deza hat die Begabung, hinter den Gesichtern von Menschen ungeahnte Seiten zu erkennen, auch bei sich selbst.
When the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove's A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer.
From remote Australian settlements to the snows of Siberia, from Colorado to Cumbria, restless teenagers, middle-aged civil servants, and Quaker spinsters traverse expanses of solitude to reveal the secrets of the human heart.
According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke's work charts "e;what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits.
Beloved writer Sean Dietrichalso known as Sean of the Southwill warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her.
Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society's margins.
The best of Bukowskis novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience.
Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the Year Winner of the Susan Koppleman Award of the Popular Culture Association for Best Edited Collection in Women's Studies Joyce Dyer is director of writing and associate professor of English at Hiram College, Ohio.
