En anglais, on appelle « novella » une longue nouvelle qui unit les lieux, l'action et le ton. Le modèle parfait serait Joseph Conrad. De ces deux novellas, l'une se déroule sur l'île d'Udo, dans la mer du Japon, que les Coréens nomment la mer...
A Dance to the Music of Time — his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.
The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth...
A glorious new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner: a big, smart, bawdy tale of love and war, sex and politics, friendship and betrayal—and the allure of the movies. With Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron as her model, Jane Smiley takes us through...
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this bestselling collection from master storyteller Sherman Alexie tackles love, loss, basketball — and everything in between.
The characters that populate the lyrical and affectionate...