For those interested in the connection between people and place, the best of the decade long collaboration between literary brat packer Will Self and gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman.
Opening with a dazzling new 20,000-word essay on...
Rozsławiona przez słynny serial australijska saga rodzinna, rozgrywająca się przez ponad pół wieku. Dzieje rodu Clearych, w którym urodziło się ośmiu synów i jedyna córka Meggie. Poznajemy...
Kalfus plucks individual lives from the stew of a century of Russian history and serves them up in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. The astonishing title story follows a doomed nuclear power plant worker as he hawks a most...
A controversial best-seller in 1977, The Public Burning has since emerged as one of the most influential novels of our time. The first major work of contemporary fiction ever to use living historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines...
Voici l'histoire d'un homme, d'une femme et d'un oiseau. Cette femme, une chanteuse célèbre, va mourir des suites d'un accident d'automobile. Du même coup, son mari apprend que « le monsieur qui était avec sa femme a été tué au volant ». La...
After the best-selling Arthur George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye.
From an...
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.
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