Imagine your home is bombed one Sunday afternoon by a horde of enemy planes. Imagine your family has gone and you are left behind. This is the fate of five-year-old Peter and two teenagers Yuri and Tanya.
Imagine being ordered to leave...
Winner of the Egon Hostovský Prize as the best Czech book of the year, this epic novel powerfully captures the sense of dislocation that followed the Czechs’ newfound freedom in 1989. More than just the story of its young...
THE ZONE 8 • CIVILIAN SLAUGHTER
The Special Combat force is hardened to horror but during a truce they find a KGB battalion has exceeded anything they’ve seen. In a fury, despite the truce, despite threats from their own commanders,...
Funny, sad, bleak, weird, toxic — the future of America as the Free Market runs rampant,the environment skids into disarray, and civilization dissolves into surreal chaos. These wacky, brilliant, hilarious and entirely original stories cue us in...
Clair de lune est un recueil de nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant, publié en 1883 aux éditions Monnier, puis dans une édition augmentée en 1888 chez Paul Ollendorff.
La plupart des contes ont fait l'objet d'une publication antérieure dans...
Claude Gueux, condamné à de la prison pour le vol d'un pain, se retrouve persécuté par un gardien de prison. La seule issue que trouve Claude Gueux à cette injustice est le meurtre de cet homme…
Victor Hugo s'est déjà engagé dans le combat...
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage...
Set against the divergent landscape of British Columbia — from the splendours of nature to its immense dangers, from urban grease and grit to dry, desert towns — Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility examines human beings and their many...