Claudio Fratta is a garden designer at the height of his career; a naturally solitary man, a tender, playful companion to his nephews, and a considerate colleague. But under his amiable exterior simmers a quiet rage, and a desire to punish the...
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Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other 'real' relatives alive, relationships operated under a "Law of Compression" in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins and grandparents. Life...
Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did — and did not — happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful...
Never before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth, stench, and physical abuse comprise the asphyxiating atmosphere of a halfway house for indigents in Miami where, in a...
Leapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in post-revolutionary Havana in the late 50s. He has superhero fantasies, hangs around with the neighborhood kids, smokes cigarettes, tells very lame jokes: By the way, do you know who...
Стогодишният старец, който скочи през прозореца и...
Цікавы, захапляльны сюжэт адразу заваюе ўвагу юнага чытача – аповед у "Прыгодах Бульбобаў" вядзецца ад імя... сабачанят. З мяккім гумарам...
У тебя есть шкатулка?Крохотная коробочка, таившая в себе сокровенные тайны?Она засыпана старыми открытками, письмами, бусинами...
Слова, ставшие названием повести, говорит ее героине Норе один из тех, кто спасал эту девушку три долгих года гитлеровской оккупации. О...
«Из серого» – это необычная история любви красавицы-невролога и учёного, специалиста по общественным наукам, который судорожно...