Pēters Freinds
Laura un Avanterras noslēpums
Vācu rakstnieka Pētera Freinda (1952) vēstījuma par Lauru pirmā grāmata. Neticamas pāvērtības, drūmas katakombas un baigas kapenes, ļauni ienaidnieki un uzticami draugi. Laura nav...
It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia called Laurus is powerless to help his beloved as she dies in childbirth, unwed and without having received communion. Devastated and desperate, he sets out on a journey in search of...
In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice
In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never...
Like most men in their early thirties, Lazarus has plans that don't involve dying. He is busy organising his sisters, his business and his women. Life is mostly good, until far away in Galilee, without warning, his childhood best friend turns water...
The Rome Prize–winning author of In the Shadow of the Bridge “evokes a bygone era and an earlier pandemic…. An affecting turn in [his] long career” (Publishers Weekly).
This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by...
Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery's biting social satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle — slackers one and all. One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years, waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal....
Le bouffon Polzounkov est aussi un «coeur ardent», plein de bonnes intentions, qui voudrait aimer et être aimé. Il nous raconte son idylle de fiançailles avec la modeste Marie. Mais ce bouffon est ambivalent. Il essaie...
« Je suis mademoiselle Sans-Nom ! Venant de Nulle-Part. Née il y a trois semaines sur l'autoroute de Barcelone… »
On aurait dit que la jeune fille blonde s'était jetée sous les roues de la voiture du jeune artiste peintre en vacances...