La baronne de Barthèle attend son vieil ami et amant le comte de Montgiroux, pair de France. Son fils Maurice, marié à la nièce du comte, se meurt de fièvre cérébrale. Sur la suggestion du médecin de Maurice,...
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A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the early twentieth century — by an award-winning writer chosen as one of “5 Under 35” by the National Book Foundation.
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In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that’s before the players even take the field.
Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it...
Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child in telling an epic story of the author’s return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian...
(c) Christopher Evans 1980, 1997
This story first appeared in Extro Vol. 2, No. 3, 1980. This version slightly revised from the...
A daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski.
When his girlfriend takes a job as a schoolteacher in northern Thailand, Mischa...
Called “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence”, “Field Work in Ukrainian Sex” by Oksana Zabuzhko is the tale of one woman’s personal revolt provoked by a top literary scandal of the decade. The author, a...
Ces neuf histoires de petite folie sont des fictions ; et pourtant, elles n'ont pas été inventées. Leur matière est puisée dans une expérience familière. Tous les jours, nous perdons la tête à cause d'un peu de température, d'une rage de...