An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America.
I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my...
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The moment just before Radar Radmanovic is born, all of the hospital’s electricity mysteriously fails. The delivery takes place in total darkness. Lights back on, the staff sees a healthy baby boy — with pitch-black skin — born to the stunned...
Meet Ed Kennedy—underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he's hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and...
"I beati anni del castigo" segna l'inizio della maturità artistica di Fleur Jaeggy, che per la prima volta riesce a intrappolare il proprio stile, lucido e lapidario, in una storia vera e credibile. La trama dei romanzi precedenti, ormai...
Любовь - главное чувство в жизни каждого. Не щадит никого, ни обычную девушку, ни сумасшедшего музыкального гения. А когда чувство столь...
Twenty-year-old Taguchi Hiro has spent the last two years of his life living as a hikikomori — a shut-in who never leaves his room and has no human interaction — in his parents' home in Tokyo. As Hiro tentatively decides to reenter the world, he...
Sospesi tra storia e invenzione in un Medioevo che sembra vero, sono qui raccolti in un unico volume tre romanzi di Laura Mancinelli, in cui l'autrice approda a una visione fantastica e affettuosamente ironica della tradizione e della...
A victim of time famine, thirty-five-year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. As she runs between appointments, through her head spools the crazy tape-loop of every high-flying mother's life: client reports, bouncy castles,...
Малые литературные формы прозы, Современная русская и зарубежная проза
I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth
Long ago, when they were all a lot younger, Zenia stole a man from each of them. Then she died. Now she’s come back. Or has she? There’s a lot more than one kind of ghost.
Margaret Atwood revisits her classic characters from The Robber...
As with many of us, the life of acclaimed novelist Howard Norman has had its share of incidents of “arresting strangeness.” Yet few of us connect these moments, as Norman has done in this spellbinding memoir, to show how life tangles with the...