Faktem jest, że cywilizacja mrówek jest niedościgniona, jeśli chodzi o budowę i organizację miast. Nie wszyscy zdajemy sobie jednak sprawę, jak potężne królestwa zdołała przez wieki...
Na przełomie wieków, w odległym zakątku Indii, angielski urzędnik służby cywilnej poznaje młodą hinduskę podczas wyjątkowo ciężkiej ulewy. Dziewięć miesięcy...
No relationship is more charged than that between a psychotherapist and her patient — unless it is the relationship between a mother and her daughter. This disturbing literary thriller explores what happens when the line between those...
Winner of 1971 Booker Prize
«V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times
«A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced...
When they sent Garnet Montrose to Vietnam they told him he’d go out a boy and come back a man. But he comes back a freak, so hideously scarred that no one can stand to look at his face. The explosion which destroyed his company has skinned him...
The second collection of short stories.
Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing...
In Her Absence - "[A] translucent novel of passion, illusion and social class….slyly witty and luminous."
— Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine
During working hours, Mario is a dutiful...
Public images clash with private lives. Ruthless ambition collides with forbidden desires at the very summit of a powerful nation's government. A crisis of terrifying proportions is set to explode between the...
A tale of love, heroism and resistance set against the stunning backdrop of 1930s Florence, In Love and War weaves fact and fiction to create a sweeping portrait of a city under siege. The novel is told through the eyes, letters and journals of...
An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers
With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries,...