Ingeniero agrónomo reconvertido en informático especializado en exportaciones agrícolas, Michel Houellebecq (Reunión, 1958) sorprendió en 1994 con ésta su primera novela, preámbulo de la muy ensalzada Las...
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W mroźny lutowy dzień dwaj starzy przyjaciele spotykają się w tłumie żałobników, by towarzyszyć zmarłej Molly Lane w ostatniej drodze. Clive Linley i Vernon Halliday byli kochankami Molly, zanim osiągnęli sukces zawodowy – pierwszy...
No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for...
A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.
It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run...
It was one of the biggest scandals of the 80s. Lloyds. It started with just a few requests for money from various Names. And then the demands got bigger. And bigger. Until thousands of people, some rich, most of them just comfortably off, found...
Two short stories, from the English novelist and short story writer, whose writings can be seen as critiques of Victorian era attitudes, particularly those toward women, with complex narratives and dynamic women...
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An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World
In 1982 William T. Vollmann, one of our most versatile talents, traveled to see the war in Afghanistan. In An Afghanistan Picture Show, his first book-length work of non-fiction, Vollmann paints a brutally honest and dryly comic portrait of a...
A powerful meditation on loss and memory seen through the prism of 9/11, by one of our greatest authors.
Ben Matson lost someone he loved in the 9/11 attacks. Or thinks he did - no body has been recovered, and she shouldn't have been on that...
An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success. The novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde’s tawdry...
An Artist of the Floating...