Granted immortality by Catch, a lovable demon, a young man named Travis O'Hearn struggles to rid himself of this man-eating gremlin, who promises to make eternity hellish for him, in a supernatural comic romp through a California tourist...
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• Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize (2007)
• Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (2007)
A sweeping transcontinental novel of secrets and lies buried within a single family
Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Glover arrives in St. Petersburg...
Wydaną w 1996 r. powieść nagradzano wielokrotnie, m.in. Nagrodą im. Kościelskich, Paszportem „Polityki", nominacją do NIKE i wyróżnieniem publiczności w tym konkursie. Właśnie „Prawiekiem"...
Obsypana nagrodami powie?? Olgi Tokarczuk. Za Prawiek i inne czasy wyr??niono autork? Nagrod? Fundacji im. Ko?cielskich (1997), Nike '97 – Nagrod? Czytelnik?w, Paszportem "Polityki" (1997) oraz Machinerem (1996)."Prawiek...
“The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem’s concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in...
The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom...
'Can there be a more unreliable narrator than a teenage girl?'
Fiona Palmer is (un)happily married when a chance meeting with her former teacher plunges her headlong into an affair.
Intercut with the realities of their adult relationship, Fiona...
The narrator of Prehistoric Times might easily be taken for an inhabitant of Beckett’s world: a dreamer who in his savage and deductive folly tries to modify reality. The writing, with its burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures,...
Curtis Sittenfeld's poignant and occassionally angst-ridden debut novel Prep is the story of Lee Fiora, a South Bend, Indiana, teenager who wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ault school, an East Coast institution where "money was everywhere...
Curtis Sittenfeld's sparkling debut is set in an American boarding school, a hotbed of privilege, ambition and neurosis, every bit as snobbish and competitive as anything dreamed up on this side of the Atlantic. Lee Fiora is an intelligent,...