"Er aß und trank, bürstete seine Kleider ab, leerte den Sand aus seinen Taschen und überprüfte noch einmal die Innentasche des Blazers. Er wusch sich unter dem Tisch die Hände mit ein wenig Trinkwasser, goß den Rest über seine geplagten...
This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial...
Stalingrado era el golpe al dictador rojo, la prueba de que ningún obstáculo podía oponerse al victorioso Ejército alemán. Más de 300.000 hombres se adentraron entre las ruinas de la gran ciudad sembrada de...
Diosa, reina, señora, madre, benefactora, árbitro de la moda y modelo nacional de comportamiento. Santa Evita para unos y para otros una analfabeta resentida, trepadora, loca y ordinaria, presidenta de una dictadura de mendigos.
El protagonista de...
Sarah Court. Meet the resident.
The haunted father of a washed-up stuntman. A disgraced surgeon and his son, a broken-down boxer. A father set on permanent self-destruct, and his daughter, a reluctant powerlifter. A fireworks-maker and his...
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be...
Miljenko Jergovic’s remarkable début collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro — winner of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize — earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. Croatian by birth, Jergovic? spent his ...
A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia — about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.
On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a...