The exhilarating novel of an elegant woman’s subversive new chapter in life.
At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for...
"Paw królowej" to opowieść dziejąca się współcześnie w Polsce, w odróżnieniu od bestsellerowej "Wojny polsko-ruskiej…" nie na prowincji lecz w Warszawie. Dorota Masłowska wykreowała nową galerię pełnych humoru postaci, z których...
THE DARING, EAGERLY ANTICIPATED SECOND NOVEL BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD — NOMINATED AUTHOR OF FIELDWORK.
Mischa Berlinski’s first novel, Fieldwork, was published in 2007 to rave reviews — Hilary Mantel called it “a quirky, often...
From the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid comes the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck.
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two...
Una novela sobre uno de los grandes problemas de la sociedad actual, y el modo en que la tecnología puede servir de refugio a los criminales.Vuelve Aquiles Troyano, protagonista de Vivos y muertos.La internet más profunda sirve de refugio a una...
Fiction. "Rachel Glaser has written a game-changer. I have a couple of rules about things I allow myself to like. Rachel breaks all of them and her stories leave me hunting for my rule book. Where is my rule book? Damn her. Bless her. Say what you...
Mieszkającą w Anglii japońską wdowę Etsuko nieustannie prześladuje wspomnienie samobójstwa córki. Dzień po dniu wraca do przeszłych wydarzeń, szczególnie zaś do upalnego lata w...
Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid — an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However,...
In seventeenth-century China, three women become emotionally involved with The Peony Pavilion, a famed opera rumored to cause lovesickness and even death, including Peony, the cloistered daughter of a wealthy scholar, who succumbs to its spell only...
It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the illustrationist Raven, who...