W pożarze, który wybucha w słynnej katedrze turyńskiej, ginie mężczyzna pozbawiony języka i linii papilarnych, prawdopodobnie rabuś. Podobne próby włamania, a nawet pożary, miały...
"A short but intense novel. Big, believe me." — Joan Josep Isern, Avui
"A little masterpiece." — Giancarlo Montalbini, Lettera
"A refined book. One of those books one should add to one's book collection, that one should re-read when...
Claire Harte-Mathias is an infinitely capable solver of other people's problems. Along with her husband, she has established a prestigious foundation to aid in the rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injuries. Training therapists,...
For love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom… he became the hammer and scourge of England.
In one of history’s darkest hours there arose from humble beginnings a man of courage and honor—the likes of whom the world may...
In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Ever refusing to be marginalized or categorized by genre, Maso is an...
The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis’s trademarks — dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason...
Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn't got a past. She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she...