For young Aleksandar — the best magician in the non-aligned states and painter of unfinished things — life is endowed with a mythic quality in the Bosnian town of Višegrad, a rich playground for his imagination. When his grandfather dies, Aleks...
Ostdeutsche Provinz, Januar 1990. Enrico Türmer, Theatermann und heimlicher Schriftsteller, kehrt der Kunst den Rücken und heuert bei einer neu gegründeten Zeitung an. Unter der Leitung seines Mephisto, des allgegenwärtigen Clemens von Barrista,...
Stephen Dixon is a very skillful storyteller. His grasp of the life of ordinary American citydwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary imagination, without for a moment sacrificing its essential...
A collection of eighteen short stories by a “very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary...
Stephen Dixon, one of America’s great literary treasures, has completed his first novel in five years — His Wife Leaves Him, a long, intimate exploration of the interior life of a husband who has lost his wife. His Wife Leaves Him is as achingly...
Esta novela ganó el premio Gouncourt des Lycéens 2002 y el Prix des Libraires en 2003. Como su propio nombre indica, dos premisos franceses, claro que el autor es de por allí y también como su propio nombre indica, el...
Von Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, dem finsteren Helden, sei nur verraten, daß er am 17. Juli 1738 in Paris, in einer stinkigen Fischbude geboren wird. Die Ammen, denen das Kerlchen an die Brust gelegt wird, halten es nur ein paar Tage mit ihm aus:...