A boozy ex-military captain trapped in a mysterious vessel searches for his runaway son, an aging superhero settles into academia, and a professional "dystopianist" receives a visit from a suicidal sheep. Men and Cartoons contains eleven...
At the centre of this novel stands Harriet Haslam, the epitome of the maternal power figure,whose genuine but overpowering love dominates the novel and whose self-knowledge drives her into insanity. Even after her death Harriet continues to...
The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy — acclaimed author of Remainder and C — Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast — dissolute bohemians,...
Premio Nadal 2007
Una parodia sutil, aunque hilarante y demoledora, de las novelas de intrigas esotéricas.
Corina y Jacob han vivido siempre de la organización de robos de obras de arte. Cuando se dan por retirados de la profesión...
Urocza, przezabawna powiastka gdańskiego prozaika zaczyna się w okolicznościach iście dramatycznych: bohater (noszący wiele znamion, które pozwalają utożsamiać go z autorem), wsiadając w początku lat dziewięćdziesiątych do małego...
Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation…
This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar,...