Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet troops have just invaded and, for the young orphan Ilya, life is suddenly turned on its head. At first there is relief that the mean-spirited nuns who run his orphanage have been driven out by the Red Army, but as...
From the time she was a child, Mas Arai's daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa – never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never...
El episodio de los reyes Magos sólo mereció unas líneas por parte de uno de los cuatro Evangelios, pero ha impresionado vivamente la imaginación d ela humanidad desde hace dos mil años. Ésta es una de las pocas novelas...
El episodio de los reyes Magos s?lo mereci? unas l?neas por parte de uno de los cuatro Evangelios, pero ha impresionado vivamente la imaginaci?n d ela humanidad desde hace dos mil a?os. ?sta es una de las pocas novelas que existen sobre este...
Gate of the Sun is the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. After their country is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted makeshift hospital in the Shatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut. We enter a vast world of...
In the third novel of this young adult series, the mystery deepens in a house that is more than meets the eye.
It's hard to believe that things could have gotten worse for the King family-but they have. Dad's in handcuffs, the school bully has just...
In 1952, a young Philip K. Dick wrote one of his first novels: Gather Yourselves Together. He’d already had success selling numerous SF short stories, but this was a serious, mainstream novel—a steamy, claustrophobic tale of two men and a woman...
Zwiedzając we Florencji wystawę fotografii peruwiańskiej Amazonii, Vargas Llosa przywołuje w pamięci postać przyjaciela z czasów studenckich. Saul Zuratas, peruwiański Żyd, pasjonował się bowiem...
Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. The government against the people. On initial publication, twenty years on from the strike, David Peace's bravura novel "GB84" was hugely acclaimed. In a bloody and dramatic fictional portrait of the year...