From the highly acclaimed author of Edisto and The Interrogative Mood, Padgett Powell’s new collection of stories, Cries for Help, Various, follows his mentor Donald Barthelme’s advice that “wacky mode” must “break their hearts.” The...
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Yu Hua’s beautiful, heartbreaking novel Cries in the Drizzle follows a young Chinese boy throughout his childhood and adolescence during the reign of Chairman Mao.
The middle son of three, Sun Guanglin is constantly neglected ignored...
Rubem Fonseca’s Crimes of August offers the first serious literary treatment of the cataclysmic events of August 1954, arguably the most turbulent month in Brazilian history.
A rich novel, both culturally and historically, Crimes of August...
Дональд Бартельми (1931–1989) — один из крупнейших (наряду с Пинчоном, Бартом и Данливи) представителей американской «школы черного...
La ambigüedad del tiempo y una Córdoba tan mítica como real, constituyen el escenario propicio para el pacto diabólico y el rito iniciático. Es octubre de 1962. La inminencia de la guerra por la crisis de los misiles en Cuba y un grupo de...
Felipe IV pide un buen día ver a la reina desnuda.
El revuelo que ello provoca en Palacio no es poco, aun siendo la reina quién es, o lo que es lo mismo, su propia esposa, pues que los reyes en su lecho quieran verse desnudos, o en pelota picada,...
A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books)
A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his...
Caryl Phillips' ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the...
On the outskirts of a northwestern European riverport city lives a powerful woman banker, a public figure admired and hated in equal measure, who has decided to turn from the worlds of high finance and modern life to embark on a quest. Having...
I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn’t mine. in a city that wasn’t mine, in a country that wasn’t mine, with a...