Era martes, las ocho y veinte de la mañana del día de su muerte. Tadeo se debatía entre un ánimo ambiguo que lo llevaba de una nostalgia prematura a un entusiasmo juvenil. No era alegría, más bien se sentía triste,...
One of Pierre Michon's most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoine Watteau, Claude Lorrain, and Lorentino, a little-remembered...
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a good waist, and a busted thesis...
Andrew Durbin’s Mature Themes is a hybrid text of poetry, art criticism, and memoir focused on the subject of disingenuity — and what constitutes "personal experience" both online and IRL when to "go deep" in a culture of so many unreliable...
Avec ce livre, Frédéric Dard va plus loin dans le chemin tortueux des âmes. Tout en nous captivant par une action aux incessants rebondissements, nous sentons qu’il nous conduit infailliblement là où il veut, c’est-à-dire à une plus large...
A collection of stories that describe painful kinds of education, the title story describing how an uninhibited woman educates a prim Scottish lecturer. Five other tales describe folk in Britain's lowest professional class between the late-1950s and...
Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper. They have been uneasy rivals since childhood. Then one day George's loses control so extravagantly that he...