From internationally best-selling author Tommy Wieringa, comes a rich and engrossing novel about a man on an odyssey in search of answers about his dysfunctional artistic family and the legacy they left behind.
When Ludwig Unger...
In this superb novel composed of fragments of memory, Gilbert Sorrentino captures the unconventional nuances of a conventional world. A masterful collage of events is evocatively chained together by secrets and hidden truths that are almost...
A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers.
For long standing admirers of Modiano’s luminous writing as well as those readers encountering his work for the first time, Little...
Cartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers. These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs to...
The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life’s ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi’s fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in...
Written in the opening phases of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), Little Mountain is told from the perspectives of three characters: a Joint Forces fighter; a distressed civil servant; and an amorphous figure, part fighter, part intellectual....
David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer’s block. He stares at the blank page, and the blank page stares back — until inspiration strikes in the form of a ghost story that captivated him as a child.
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Reflexión optimista sobre los retos y las satisfacciones de llegar a los 60, en una época en que la vejez es una segunda oportunidad de vivir. La autora predica con el ejemplo y «a punto de cruzar esa frontera», se muestra en plena...
No hay duda de que Roberto Saviano, a través de Gomorra, ha tirado de la manta para descubrir una realidad patente y todavía muy desconocida como es la delincuencia de la mafia. Su obra, más que calidad literaria, tiene...