Parade's End is a tetralogy (four related novels) by Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928. It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life vividly...
Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends up living with three nubile lingerie models who use him as a sexual...
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene...
"In contemporary Argentine literature, Paradises is an almost perfect novel." — Tonica
Albert Camus's The Outsider reimagined with a female lead in in twenty-first-century Buenos Aires.
Recently widowed, a young woman leaves the...
Powieść Hellera to utrzymana w konwencji czarnej groteski historia grupy amerykańskich lotników odbywających w czasie ostatniej wojny loty bojowe nad zajętymi przez Niemców obszarami Włoch. Walcząc z...
In 1989, the year the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his morning run finds a corpse on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This scene opens a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of...
Eleanor and Fulbert Sullivan live, with their nine children ranging from nursery to university age, in a huge country house belonging to Fulbert's parents, Sir Jesse and Lady Regan. Sir Jesse sends Fulbert, his only son, on a business mission to...
Su París forma, junto con La ciudad y El lugar, una `trilogía involuntaria` sobre el extrañamiento: los viajes que emprenden sus protagonistas parecen al comienzo incursiones razonables en la realidad cotidiana, pero luego se advierte que en esa...