Giovanni Orelli's docufictional phantasmagoria revisits a lesser-known painting by Paul Klee titled Alphabet I, which features black letters and symbols scrawled over the sports page of a newspaper reporting Switzerland's victory over Nazi Germany in the 1938 Swiss National Cup.
On an epic voyage far beyond the Republic, the Jedi will confront their most extraordinary enemy-and test the limits of honor and sacrifice against their most devastating challenge.
Wirklich berühmt wurde Urs Widmer mit seinem Spätwerk: ›Der blaue Siphon‹, ›Der Geliebte der Mutter‹ oder ›Das Buch des Vaters‹ finden auch heute noch viele begeisterte Leserinnen und Leser.
A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land.
The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the worldAutumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.
**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES, STARRING GONG YU AND SEO HYUN-JIN **Read the gripping international feminist satire for fans of KIM JIYOUNG BORN 1982, CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and YELLOWFACE.
When Se ora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Kid with a riddle he will not unravel until after her death.
A luscious summer novel about friends, lovers, and friends' lovers An evocative debut about the fragility and fluidity of adult friendship Observer*A summer reading pick in BBC Culture, Vogue, and Esquire*Five friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark.
Stories of the American West by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South, “the best historical novelist of our time” (Patricia Cornwell).
Here is a bonanza of fascinating facts and human-interest anecdotes about thirty-seven remarkable horses all shaped into affectionate and appealing short stories.
Five hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy vacationers, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Veronica, returning after living in Mexico City, ready to understand herself and the place she came from.
Designed to amplify the authentic voices of emerging writers, Turquoise Dreams is a short story collection depicting life experiences through the eyes of women in modern day Southern Africa.
Von der Anomalie namens LebenBei einem verhängnisvollen Sherry beschließen Cyril und Kay Wilkinson, mit 80 Jahren freiwillig aus dem Leben zu scheiden.
On 15 March 1977, with his wife's consent, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on the grounds of a Montreal convent school.
A collection that brings together the five 2016 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the Caine Prize Writers Workshop, which took place April 2016.
The Fatuous State of Severity is a fresh collection of short stories and illustrations that explores themes surrounding the experiences of a generation of young, urban South Africans coping with the tensions of social media, language insecurities and relationships of various kinds.
Closing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel and the masterpieces of the early Soviet avant-garde, this masterful mixture of prose and poetry, excerpts from private letters and diaries, and quotes from newspapers and NKVD documents, is a unique amalgam of documentary, philosophical novel, and black humor.
Having grown up on stories of her mother's wild youth in California, Elena Berg relocates from New England to the Bay Area in 2011 for a placement as an English teacher with Teach for America.
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLaird Hunt's "e;revelatory (NYT)"e; story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed.
