Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and...
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An erotically charged, elegantly written novel that marks the first publication in English of author Kyung-Ran Jo, a literary star in Korea who has earned comparisons to Haruki Murakami.
Emotionally raw and emphatically sensual, Tongue is the...
Winner of the 2012 Libris Literature Prize — the Dutch equivalent of the Booker Prize — and a bestseller in Holland and Germany, this is a mesmerising rendition of grief and love.
On Pentecost 2010, Tonio — the only son of writer Adri van...
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In this intriguing accomplished novel, the author of Camden's Eyes and several works of literary criticism combines a stark take on a film noir theme with a postmodern meditation on the act of reading. Susan Morrow is...
Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are...
Siedemnastoletnia Emerson uwielbia gry komputerowe i seriale na Discovery, za to nie zależy jej na wyglądzie ani powodzeniu. I nagle staje się zupełnie inną dziewczyną: po dziwnym wypadku budzi się w ciele...
Asking how it is possible to feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our wishes, this text draws on books, films and cultural history to argue that we can feel comfortable in the world and in...
A story from one of Japan’s rising literary stars about memory, loss, and love, Touring the Land of the Dead is a mesmerizing combination of two tales, both told with stylistic inventiveness and breathtaking sensitivity.
Taichi was forced to...
Tout à l’ego - Un homme tout juste sorti du coma qui reçoit de l'infirmière qui l'a veillé la transcription de ses secrets les plus enfouis, de son passé le plus perdu. Un type qui veut...
Maman disait de moi que j'étais un ange.
Un ange tombé du ciel.
Mais les anges qui tombent ne se relèvent jamais…
Je connais l'enfer dans ses moindres recoins.
Je pourrais le dessiner les yeux fermés.
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