Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also...
Phil Ockerman falls for Bertha Strunk at a tango lesson in a church crypt in Clerkenwell. Each recently separated, both their Suns are squared by Neptune. Bertha also bears a strong resemblance to the 17th century Venetian singer and composer,...
In this harrowing novel, a young Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of being involved in jihadist activities. Drugged and carried off the street, Hamuda is "extraordinarily rendered" to a prison camp in an unknown location where he is...
Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in My Two Worlds is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a literary conference — he...
Peter Handke has been acclaimed as "unmistakably one of the best writers we have in that self-discovering tendency we call post-modernism" (Malcolm Bradbury, New York Times Book Review). In his new novel. Handke tells the story of an Austrian...
W książce tej pojawiają się motywy obecne w jej następnych minipowieściach: wielokulturowe środowisko emigrantów w Paryżu, groteska, dygresje ezoteryczne, erotyka. Wątki autobiograficzne i zgoła...
Ta książka jest dla mnie niesamowita. Wokół słyszymy wciąż: narkomani, nie, narkotyki, nie, to niezdrowe, nie, to szkodliwe, nie, trucizna, nie, narkotyki, nie, złe towarzystwo, nie, nie i nie… A (może...