Antonio Tabucchi's new novel The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro continues the experiment so successfully begun with his Pereira Declares (New Directions, 1994) — a European best-seller and winner of the prestigious Aristeion European...
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In an underground apartment building called “the Burrow”-essentially purgatory—“twilight souls” inhabit the space between life and death. Interwoven with their stories are those of inhabitants of the living world: a retired sea captain, a...
In Howard Trenton's case, he may well be the first truly 'inhuman' serial killer to have ever walked the Earth... The Black Pathway Trail is a thirty mile walk that starts in the dying coastal town of Coldsleet, and which crosses moorland, cuts...
"Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels." — Gabriel García Marquez
"Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances. . an almost voluptuous...
Frank Pastor, the biggest man in The Organisation, went behind bars for eight years - convicted of briberty and corruption on eye witness evidence.The testimony came from a man called Merle - and The Organisation want him punished.With a different...
Three early stories about myth, power, and sex by the acclaimed author of The Flamethrowers.
An explorer’s unknown whereabouts keep a queen in anticipation; a faith healer’s illegal radio broadcasts give hope to an oppressed people; a...
When is a homicide not a...
Later, along with “Hot Sky”, was used as the foundation of the novel Hot Sky at...
For Colonel Pyotr Andreevitch Kirov there is only one inescapable truth in modern Russia — if the old order does not change, it is impossible to bury the past.
When Kirov's routine investigation into black market antibiotics is linked...
The Mad and the...