Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter van Brunt is about to have a collision with history.
It will lead...
World's End is the first novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1940, the story covers the period from 1913 to 1919. This is the beginning of a monumental 7,340 page novel, the story of Lanny Budd, a young American,...
Training horses is dangerous-a head-to-head confrontation with a 1,000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage, but more importantly patience and smarts. It is these same qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in the beautiful...
Alfonso Stephen O'Kelly'O known as Stephen, son of rumoured former bootleggers, ex-naval gunner, unemployed compuser, student of dairy cattle in Wisconsin and of music in Italy, has little to recommend him as a marriage prospect but his tender...
Murakami czuje się świetnie również w zwartej oszczędnej i precyzyjnej formie krótkiego opowiadania. Kilkoma słowami zarysowuje wyraziste, sugestywne światy, a każda z historii jest przekonująca,...
Autobiografia Johna Irvinga napisana jest, podobnie jak powieści jego autorstwa, z dystansem, ironią, a ponadto z dużą dozą samokrytycyzmu. Wspomnienia autora skupiają się wokół pasji jego życia,...
La decisión de una humilde familia campesina de dar una hija en adopción a un matrimonio adinerado es el fundamento sobre el que Khaled Hosseini —autor de las inolvidables Cometas en el cielo y Mil soles...