Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Robert Lopez’s hypnotic second novel, is the story of a young man whofinds himself confined and under observation, the subject of seemingly pointless tests. His only link to the outside world is a telephone that will not...
Co jeszcze może przytrafić się facetowi przed czterdziestką, który właśnie rozwodzi się z żoną domagającą się specjalnych alimentów dla…swoich kotów? Czy coś jeszcze...
“Sometimes you do not truly observe something until you study it in reverse,” writes Karim Issar upon arrival to New York City from Qatar in 1999. Fluent in numbers, logic, and business jargon yet often baffled by human connection, the young...
Kaputt proves to be a fictional memoir, or a fantasy intertwined with historical events, by Curzio Malaparte. Employed by an Italian newspaper during World War II, he was able to travel around Europe and to the Eastern Front, at ease with...
Neue Geschichten vom Autor der Bestseller »Russendisko« und »Mein deutsches Dschungelbuch«
Musik und Geschichten gehören zusammen, seit in grauer Vorzeit das erste Lied angestimmt wurde. Aber wie kommt es, dass die besten Songs immer...
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal. At a Cairo café in the...
Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to each others' partners until they rematched in what they call "the fiancée swap." But as adolescence distances the friends,...