As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, 'Man's Fate' ('La Condition Humaine'), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the contemporary world and brings to...
Lilija Makdonalda ir gatava spert soli pretim jaunai dzīvei – viņa ir apprecējusies ar pievilcīgu vīrieti un sākusi strādāt cienījamā advokātu birojā. Viņas pirmais klients ir notiesāts par savas mīļotās slepkavību. Lilijai ir...
The gentle dhobi who transforms into a killer, a prostitute who is more child than woman, the cocky, young coachman who falls in love at first sight, a father convinced that his son will die before his first birthday. Saadat Hasan Manto's stories...
Pintor mediocre, dolorosamente consciente de sus limitaciones, H. recurre a las páginas de un diario como medio para comprender sus debilidades estéticas y para comprenderse a sí mismo, cuando acepta el encargo de retratar a S.,...
Recopilación que es una recreación de las experiencias literarias, filosóficas y aun teológicas, de textos históricos y sagrados chinos e hindúes o incluso europeos medievales, que recogen mitos y concepciones...
Don DeLillo's follow-up to Libra, his brilliant fictionalization of the Kennedy assassination, Mao II is a series of elusive set-pieces built around the themes of mass psychology, individualism vs. the mob, the power of imagery and the search for...
From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in...