"Soul Mountain is one of those singular literary creations that seem impossible to compare with anything but themselves… In the writing of Gao Xingjian literature is born anew from the struggle of the individual to survive the history of the...
Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist.
Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a...
Oates's latest collection explores certain favorite Oatesian themes, primary among them violence, loss, and privilege. Three of the stories feature white, upper-class, educated widows whose sheltered married lives have left them unprepared for...
Ce roman composite alterne r?cit biographique, lettres, digressions philosophiques et narration proprement dite, en un prologue et deux parties.Prologue. Germaine Malorthy, Mouchette, a seize ans. Elle r?v?le ? ses parents qu'elle est...
"[T]his luminous debut…captures precisely the heartache of growing up."
— Library Journal , Top Spring Indie Fiction
"A powerful story…a universal look at the complexity of how people wrestle with guilt and blame amid tragic loss."
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Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basketweavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself entirely to the river and the...
La maison des morts, c'est le bagne de Sibérie où Dostoïevsky a purgé comme condamné politique une peine de quatre années de travaux forcés et de six ans de «service militaire». Il faut noter l'actualité des...