When Nazi forces occupy the beautiful coastal city of Yalta, Crimea, everything changes. Eighteen-year-old Filip has few options; he is a prime candidate for forced labor in Germany. His hurried marriage to his childhood friend Galina might grant...
Dieser Roman erzählt die Fabel vom letzten Robinson in einer Welt nicht mehr vorhandener Freiräume. In Grevesmühlen, in blauer Südsee, im Londoner Kerker, im Spiegelhaus auf dem Wyman Tower. Es gibt einen hochpolierten Freitag, eine Dame mit...
"Hats off to one of the most inventive writers of French literature. . Hubert Haddad concocts a colorful novel, funny and inventive, as clever as the Fox sisters themselves." — Jean-François Delapré, Saint Christophe bookstore
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A trio of uncollected stories from early in T. C. Boyle’s career, Rock and Roll Heaven shows all of the qualities that had people excited about Boyle from the beginning — great ideas, dazzling writing full of wit, black humor, and wisdom. These...
Seemingly the simplest of stories — a passing anecdote of village life — Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most...
Mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West — and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. This is a story collection about ordinary women, men and...
Rockaway Beach, 2001. Sarah, a painter from southern California, retreats to this eccentric, eclectic beach town in the far reaches of Queens with the hopes of rediscovering her passion for painting. Sarah has the opportunity for a real gallery...
"Rodmoor is, unusually for a John Cowper Powys novel, set in East Anglia, Rodmoor itself being a coastal village. The protagonist, Adrian Sorio, is a typically Powys-like hero, highly-strung with only precarious mental stability. He is in love with...