“Elke Heidenreich und Bernd Schroeder, zwei Dichter an einem Tisch, zwischen sich das Meer der erfundenen und erlebten Geschichten. In ihnen treten auf: verwitwete Finanzbeamte, körnergefütterte Hühner, Nurejews Hund und eben - rudernde Hunde....
Rue des boutiques obscures a valu à Patrick Modiano un prix Goncourt à trente trois ans.
C'est peut-être son roman le plus accompli, dix ans après de brillants débuts en littérature avec La place...
LE POINT DE VUE DES ÉDITEURS
C’est un jeune Marocain de Tanger, un garçon sans histoire, un musulman passable, juste trop avide de liberté et d’épanouissement, dans une société peu libertaire. Au lycée, il a appris quelques bribes...
When originally published in 1993, Ruined City (Fei Du) was promptly banned by China’s State Publishing Administration, ostensibly for its explicit sexual content. Since then, award-winning author Jia Pingwa’s vivid portrayal of...
When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble...
This “wonderful” (Chicago Tribune) and “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) debut novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a...
Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the...