Cinq séquences d'une vie, cinq démons impossibles à chasser. Tel est le programme de 'Frictions'. Beau gosse, fou de sa mère, marié à un mannequin et ayant trouvé la solution à ses soucis d'argent, le...
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The...
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The...
In these ten short stories Alice Munro conveys the mysteries at the heart of all human experience with an art and compassion that make FRIEND OF MY YOUTH a genuine literary...
Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story...
A couple, long married, are spending an unaccustomed week apart. Amotz, an engineer, is busy juggling the day-to-day needs of his elderly father, his children, and his grandchildren. His wife, Daniella, flies from Tel Aviv to East Africa to mourn...
Stephen Dixon is a very skillful storyteller. His grasp of the life of ordinary American citydwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary imagination, without for a moment sacrificing its essential...
Wladimir Kaminer, der gefeierte Autor der »Russendisko«, ist wieder da. Und diesmal hat er auch seine Freunde mitgebracht. Gemeinsam gelingt ihnen das Kunststück, eine ganz neue Literatur zu präsentieren – hinreißende Geschichten...
A multi-layered and frequently hilarious family epic — Dixon combines interrelated novels, stories, and novellas to tell the story of Howard Tetch, his ancestors, children, and the generations that...