So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an...
A haunting novel of suspense from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot...
Sobre héroes y tumbas es una novela escrita por el escritor argentino Ernesto Sabato, de quien sea quizá su obra más conocida. Publicada en 1961, ésta irrumpe en el panorama de la literatura latinoamericana aglutinando una...
Sam Callahan's mother told him she was raped by four football players when she was 14. One of them is his father, but which? She lied; actually, she paid them for sex. Anyway, Sam contacts each of the men and causes endless trouble. Soon, an affair...
Es la disección novelada de una ciudad, Valencia, donde un elenco de personajes ha convertido la traición, la inquina y la intriga pérfida en el modelo de conducta cotidiana. Julia Aleixandre, además de ostentar un importante...
The objective of advertising is to change the behaviour of the consumer so they purchase more of the product. That, at any rate, is the theory. But Jimmy Lyle may have taken things a bit too far with his controversial strategy for the UK launch of...
Since this is a work of fiction, I have permitted myself certain inexactitudes. For example, the Soho Waiters’ Race does not immediately precede the Soho Ball.
The setting is obviously real, as are most of the streets, although some are not....