A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have.
Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren’t made for her, or that she isn’t destined to have them, or that the only things she deserves are ugly. It’s why her main...
Described by John Ashbery as “pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful,” Christine Schutt’s prose has earned her comparisons to Emily Dickinson and Eudora Welty. In her new novel, Schutt delivers a...
Early in "Proud Beggars," a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery's wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the...
Życie Holly i Gerry`ego było idealne – szczęśliwe małżeństwo, dom w Dublinie, oddani przyjaciele, wspaniała rodzina. Mieli świat u swych stóp. Tak przynajmniej sądzili. Dlatego gdy Gerry niespodziewanie umiera, życie Holly rozpada się...
Written when he was only twenty-five, before embarking on the masterpieces that would make him an integral figure in twentieth-century letters, Psalm 44 shows Ki at his most lyrical and unguarded, demonstrating that even in the place of...
Psicomagia es el documento m?s completo sobre la evoluci?n de la obra creativa y terap?utica de Alejandro Jodorowsky, e incluye la versi?n ?ntegra, in?dita en Espa?a, del texto fundamental para comprender la psicomagia. El autor nos muestra el...
Psicomagia es el documento más completo sobre la evolución de la obra creativa y terapéutica de Alejandro Jodorowsky, e incluye la versión íntegra, inédita en España, del texto fundamental para comprender la...
For those interested in the connection between people and place, the best of the decade long collaboration between literary brat packer Will Self and gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman.
Opening with a dazzling new 20,000-word essay on...
Kalfus plucks individual lives from the stew of a century of Russian history and serves them up in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. The astonishing title story follows a doomed nuclear power plant worker as he hawks a most...