From this renowned philosopher comes a debut work of fiction, at once a brilliant précis of the history of philosophy, a semiautobiographical meditation on the absurd relationship between knowledge and memory, and a very funny story.
A French...
"Doerr has set a new standard for what a story can do." - Dave Eggers
From an award-winning and extraordinarily eloquent author whose "prose dazzles" (The New York Times Book Review) comes a second stunning collection.
Set on four continents,...
Anne Foster's husband is in France. She has stayed behind in their small college town with her two young children -- whom she loves with an intensity that awes her -- to finish writing the catalogue for a major exhibition of the work of American...
A boozy ex-military captain trapped in a mysterious vessel searches for his runaway son, an aging superhero settles into academia, and a professional "dystopianist" receives a visit from a suicidal sheep. Men and Cartoons contains eleven...
The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy — acclaimed author of Remainder and C — Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast — dissolute bohemians,...
Premio Nadal 2007
Una parodia sutil, aunque hilarante y demoledora, de las novelas de intrigas esotéricas.
Corina y Jacob han vivido siempre de la organización de robos de obras de arte. Cuando se dan por retirados de la profesión...
Urocza, przezabawna powiastka gdańskiego prozaika zaczyna się w okolicznościach iście dramatycznych: bohater (noszący wiele znamion, które pozwalają utożsamiać go z autorem), wsiadając w początku lat dziewięćdziesiątych do małego...