“Der neue Roman von Michel Houellebecq ist schrecklich. Er entwirft das Bild eines islamistischen Gottesstaates in Frankreich in der nahen Zukunft. Nicht dass der Roman nicht lesenswert wäre. Im Gegenteil: man kann ihn kaum aus der Hand legen....
Oates's latest collection explores certain favorite Oatesian themes, primary among them violence, loss, and privilege. Three of the stories feature white, upper-class, educated widows whose sheltered married lives have left them unprepared for...
"[T]his luminous debut…captures precisely the heartache of growing up."
— Library Journal , Top Spring Indie Fiction
"A powerful story…a universal look at the complexity of how people wrestle with guilt and blame amid tragic loss."
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Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basketweavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself entirely to the river and the...
Az esküvő Spanyolországban lesz. A pasi kiállhatatlan. Három napon át úgy kell tenned az összes rokon előtt, mintha szerelmes lennél belé.
Catalina Martín szingli, de nem akar egyedül menni a húga/nővére esküvőjére. Korábban...
Winner of the 1989 National Book Award.
A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind,...