T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary...
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Coronation Day, 1953.Molly Heywood has always been a pillar of strength for her local community, so when her friend Cassie fails to attend the Coronation Day party in the village, it is Molly who heads out in the rain to look for her.But nothing can...
An unforgettable fable about the brutality of war—and one girl’s quest for revenge and healing, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller “Silk.”
When—in an unnamed place and time—Manuel Roca’s enemies hunt him down...
Without...
An seinem monumentalen Werk über die Gründungsgeschichte des Königreiches Böhmen im 12. Jahrhundert arbeitete Stifter zehn Jahre lang wie »ein Pflugstier«. Durch den Romanhelden Witiko, der stellvertretend für den sittlich...
The writer Hari Kunzru says “made me feel better about the Apocalypse than I have in ages” is back — with a hilarious coming-of-age love story.
The unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein...
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson — or anyone else — has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced, and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well, that she is the only...
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson — or anyone else — has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced, and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well, that she is the only...
On Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however,...
Wives and...