In the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can't quite bring...
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Proleterka è il nome di una nave. Attraccata a Venezia, aspetta di portare in Grecia un gruppo di rispettabili turisti di lingua tedesca. Gli ultimi a salire sono un signore che zoppica lievemente e sua figlia non ancora sedicenne. Fra padre e...
Dans Promenade, R?gis Jauffret jette en p?ture au lecteur la folle errance d’une femme d?poss?d?e d’elle-m?me, claustr?e dans un univers mental hallucin?. Cette anonyme («elle») pratiquement r?duite ? n?ant appara?t comme totalement ?trang?re...
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Сборник небольших новелл, названных Императорскими сюитами, восходит к названию песни The Rolling Stones “The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man”. И поэтому...
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“On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist....
Elizabeth Bishop’s prose is not nearly as well known as her poetry, but she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as the publication of her letters has shown. Her stories are often on the borderline of memoir, and vice versa. From her...
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...