Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost....
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Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of the last decade, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound racing,...
The worst thing that happened to some Holocaust survivors was that they became like Nazis. How and why - and why they stopped - is the subject of this book. It is a story of Jewish revenge - and Jewish redemption. AnEye for an Eye is a riveting...
In Oileán na Leice, ar chósta thiar na hÉireann, níl ag déanamh imní do Chaitríona ach cén chaoi a gcaithfidh sí féin is a cairde laethanta fada an tsamhraidh — agus cén chaoi a meallfaidh sí Séamas Jim, dár ndóigh. Nuair a thugann...
"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best."
— The New York Times Book Review
Booker Prize Finalist
"Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of...
In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant
poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the
Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of our most distinguished...
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The Second World War has just ended and Sister Honour Langtree, a caring and conscientious Army nurse, cares for a striking mixture of five battle-broken soldiers being treated in the psychiatric care section of the hospital. To the soldiers, Honour...
In 1920s England, a young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle's mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost.
Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies - so to leave at the beginning of the term...
A Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection
In this witty and moving work of short fiction, "you" recall the romantic interests you had once pined for, crushed on from afar, kissed, and never forgot. Exploring the forces of attraction as well as...
Mona Gray was ten when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandoning each of her talents just as pleasure became intense. The only thing she can't stop doing is math: She knocks on wood, adds her steps, and...