Literaturnobelpreisträger Mo Yan zeigt sich mit seinem neuen großen Roman auf der Höhe seiner Kunst: Gugu ist die begabteste Hebamme in Gaomi. Seit Jahrzehnten bringt sie dort alle Kinder zur Welt. Mit Beginn der Geburtenkontrolle...
Kipling was reported missing, believed killed, in his first battle on the Western Front. From this time he was constantly in pain from a gastric ulcer. He published some (censored) articles of war journalism in 1915, collected as The New Army in...
This moving tale of imprisonment and escape, persecution and loss, is narrated by the daughter of an alleged Harki, an Algerian soldier who fought for the French during the Algerian War for Independence. It was the fate of such men to be twice...
D'inspiration champêtre, 'François le Champi' est un roman où il n'est question que d'amour, écrit dans un style limpide et lumineux. Dans son livre, George Sand s'attache à reproduire le parler berrichon, et met en...
The writer who makes scary stories wants to make the scariest one yet called "The Tattoo Collector." It's about a really creepy serial killer that will give you goosebumps. Vinny Cafaro and his wife Talia look like they have a perfect life with lots...
The world's most famous monster comes to life in this 1818 novel, a compelling narrative that combines Gothic romance and science fiction to tell of an ambitious young doctor's attempts to breathe life into an artificial man. Despite the doctor's...
The world's most famous monster comes to life in this 1818 novel, a compelling narrative that combines Gothic romance and science fiction to tell of an ambitious young doctor's attempts to breathe life into an artificial man. Despite the doctor's...