Un castello gotico nel bel mezzo di una foresta. Un gruppo di eccentrici musicisti alle prese con una partitura estremamente complicata e con la convivenza forzata. Le tensioni sessuali tra i membri del gruppo rivelano in realtà una più...
With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, “A Walk in the Wild Side” has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first...
There was a time when the world was sweeter….when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats…. Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at...
In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism....
With her wedding ceremony an hour away, Andrea Kleinman excused herself from the preparations to make a long-distance call — to an old and very special friend in New York City... Can a “liberated” woman go home again?... Andrea Kleinman has...
Stoneybridge is full of holiday-makers in summer, its beaches are full of buckets and spades and sandcastles; but in winter it's cold and wild. Few choose to walk along the fine sands, the big round pebbles and the exposed rocky promontories that...
Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood — his home.
Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, his story is one of man's relationship with an...
Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize — winning author of The Hours.
A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one...