“My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight,” H.D. writes in Tribute to Freud, her moving memoir. Compelled by historical as well as personal crises, H.D. underwent therapy with Freud during 1933–34, as the...
Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an SS officer and stolen from her...
Mol Benade, her brothers Treppie and Pop, and son Lambert live in a rotting government house, which is the only thing they have, other than decaying appliances that break as soon as they're fixed, remembrances of a happy past that never really...
It is a sultry August at the very end of the twentieth century, and Tristano is dying. A hero of the Italian Resistance, Tristano has called a writer to his bedside to listen to his life story, though, really, “you don’t tell a life…you live a...
Una casa de campo en alguna parte de la Toscana. La canícula del mes de agosto, en el último año del siglo XX. Tristano, un hombre que ha combatido por la libertad de su país bajo ese nombre, tomado de un personaje de Leopardi,...
La historia comienza cuando Stan Laurel (el actor c?mico de la famosa serie del Gordo y el Flaco) acude al detective Philip Marlowe (el personaje creado por el escritor Raymond Chandler), tambi?n en el ocaso de su esplendor, para que averig?e por...
« À la fin de décembre 1999, une surprenante série d'événements tragiques s'abattit sur Beauval, au premier rang desquels, bien sûr, la disparition du petit Rémi Desmedt.
Dans cette région couverte de forêts, soumise à des...
"A deeply observed, excruciatingly blunt novel."-The New Yorker
"The raging, tormented voice of the author is something rare."-The New York Times
Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery...