Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon), an innovator who attempts “to remake the model of the modern short story”...
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Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of...
"If someone in the future asks in frustration, 'What has Korean literature been up to?' we can quietly hand them Vaseline Buddha." — Pak Mingyu
A tragicomic odyssey told through free association scrubs the depths of the human psyche to...
Kas notiek, kad neprecēta jaunkundze bez pavadoņa dodas pastaigā un sastop valdzinošu svešinieku ar ļoti sliktu reputāciju? Skaistās un apņēmīgās Venēcijas Lenjonas dzīve ģimenes muižā laukos ir visai vienmuļa, līdz tajā iejaucas...
DIPLOMAT, WRITER AND POET, traveller and socialite, friend of Proust, Giraudoux and Malraux, Paul Morand was out of the most original writers of the twentieth century. He was French literature's globe-trotter, and his delightful autobiography is far...
"Vente à la criée du lot 49" est le deuxième roman de Thomas Pynchon. Une jeune femme nommée Œdipa Mass y apprend qu'elle a été choisie comme exécutrice testamentaire d'un de ses anciens amants, un magnat...
An intense, mordantly funny collection of short fiction from the author of "Home"" Land"""and "The Ask."
A man with an "old soul" finds himself at a Times Square peep show, looking for more than just a little action. A young man goes...
Vercoquin empieza con una surprise-party y termina con otra, por eso en la parte central se recorren hasta el mareo las estupideces y repeticiones de las oficinas del C.N.U. (Consortium Nacional de la Unificación) Nada menos parecido sin...
The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old...
The Man Booker Prize Winner–2003
When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, under arrest at the sheriff's office, a teenager wearing nothing but yesterday's underwear and his prized...