"Sergio Pitol is not only our best active storyteller, he is also the bravest renovator of our literature." — Álvaro Enrigue, Letras Libres
Pitol is unfathomable; it could almost be said that he is a literature entire of himself." —...
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"Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."-Laila Lalami, Los Angeles Times
From the author of Gate of the Sun and "one of the most innovative...
Joel is fifteen and has left school, wanting to become a merchant sailor and travel far away from his home town in Northern Sweden. But first he must face up to the past and meet his mother who ran off when he was little. After such a long time how...
Legendary trader and explorer Marco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends...
Legendary trader and explorer Marco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends...
The Journeyman...
"Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible." --Mortimer J. Adler
This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world--from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to...
The Joys of My...
