Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: "Stunning and strange. . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . It glows with the radiance and resilience of the...
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The Rise & Fall of Great Powers begins in a dusty bookshop. What follows is an abduction, heated political debate, glimpses into strangers’ homes, and travel around the globe. It’s a novel of curious personalities, mystery, and lots of...
Автор: Everitt Anthony
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has...
The Risk...
(c) Christopher Evans 1983, 1997
This story first appeared in Lands of Never edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Unwin Paperbacks,...
Trevor Ferguson, one of Canada s most acclaimed writers, returns with "The River Burns," his long-awaited new novel. "The River Burns" tells the story of a small town in crisis, the mistakes people make, and the courage it takes to heal a community...
A River Runs Through It
Like Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, the omniscient teller of Alice Hoffman's The River King has a profound affinity for water. Unlike Ishmael, whose story ends tragically, this narrator, and we, her...
The River We...
From the author of the acclaimed The Blasphemer, a stunning new novel ranging from forbidden love in World War Two to the painful return of a man kept hostage in today's Afghanistan.
A powerful dual time-frame novel about forbidden love.
In the...