Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi... thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of...
Weshalb polemisiert der israelische Kulturwissenschaftler Ethan Rosen gegen einen Artikel, den er selbst verfaßt hat? Erkennt er seinen eigenen Text nicht wieder? Oder ist er seinem Kollegen Klausinger in die Falle gegangen, mit dem er um eine...
This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of...
In Ariosto's epic 16th-century poem Orlando Furioso, the beautiful Angelica, chained, naked, to a rock and menaced by a sea monster is rescued by the valiant Ruggiero, riding a 'hippogriff', the offspring of a griffin and a mare — an entirely...
Angelica's Grotto is a pornographic website into which 72-year-old art historian Harold Klein wanders one evening. Klein, a walking catalogue of infirmities, may not be up to much physically but there's a lot of sex going on in his head. His...
Once an example of American industrial might, Detroit has gone bankrupt, its streets dark, its storefronts vacant. Miles of city blocks lie empty, saplings growing through the cracked foundations of abandoned buildings.
In razor-sharp, beguiling...
„Angelų klubas“ – vieno garsiausių šiuolaikinių brazilų rašytojų Luiso Fernando Verissimo satyrinė istorija apie keistus pasirinkimus, mirtį ir nuostabias gastronomines patirtis. Nevengdamas tamsaus humoro autorius pasakoja apie...