Un día, poco antes de Navidad, la señorita Smila de regreso a su casa encuentra muerto en la nieve a su vecino y amigo, el pequeño Isaías. La versión oficial es que debió de resbalar y caerse. Pero Smila, que le cuidaba...
Susan Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in an...
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Strange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of the system's tether. But the school is run by a peculiar set of rules by...
A magical family novel by the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow. Intricate, sprawling, and often hilarious, this novel offers, through a series of vividly imagined and wildly colorful characters, a very different account of the 20th century, which in...
Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of...
Told from the precocious perspective of fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers' Children is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother is an artisan, and both are...