An entertaining, expansive, and eye-opening novel that captures the vibrance of China today, by a writer whose previous work has been called “mesmerizing,” “haunting,” “breathtaking,” “mercilessly gripping,” “seductive,” and...
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There was a time when the longest story in this book was known by the title of this book — for in a certain sense that story concerns the fabulous costume nature can construe from us when it has made up its mind to unravel us down to the last...
There are those who disdain science because it’s “so cut and dried.” Which only proves they’ve never tried to do...
Nostalgia comes to many of us eventually, but some can do a bit more about it than...
Hot Times in Magma...
Antioch...
Wilson Harris's tenth novel, first published in 1972, is set in Edinburgh but, like much of his subsequent work, bridges continents by its imaginative reach.
''Doctor Black Marsden', tramp, shaman, and conjurer, is an ambivalent...
Amanda Obermann. Code name Iris.
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Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until...
A boy accidentally fallen overboard… a child in a paddling pool… an old man taking a daily swim… These are their first prey.
They arrive originally in ones and twos — deadly jellyfish eager to feast on human flesh. Attaching themselves...