From one of England’s greatest living writers comes a new collection of exquisitely formed stories set in life’s great playground.
Relationships — clandestine and legitimate — are the theme: boorish chaps and their stalwart women ululate...
Voici donc des histoires croisées, celle de Jérémie, en quête de Raphus cucullatus, alias l’oiseau de nausée, le dodo mauricien jadis exterminé par les humains, et celle de Dominique, alias Dodo, l’admirable hobo, né pour faire rire. Leur...
Lush prose and penetrating psychological insight infuse Conrad’s first novel with the qualities that have made him one of the most popular and most studied writers in English literature. The novel chronicles the tragic decline of a Dutch merchant...
Albert is nineteen, grew up in an orphanage, and never knew his mother. All his life Albert had to be a father to his father: Fred is a child trapped in the body of an old man. He spends his time reading encyclopedias, waves at green cars, and is...
“Of my generation I most admire Daniel Sada, whose writing project seems to me the most daring.” —Roberto Bolaño.
This Rabelaisian tale of lust and longing in the drier precincts of postwar Mexico introduces one of...
Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis’s inventive collection of short fiction, Almost No Memory. In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering...