Esta sugestiva novela se enmarca en la tierra árida y fascinante de Lanzarote. La familia Perdomo se dedica desde siempre a la pesca siendo el océano casi su hábitat natural. Pero su rutinaria vida se verá sacudida por su hija...
Jessie and Tom Stilwell keep open house. Their code is one of people determined to maintain the integrity of personal relations against the distortions of law and society.
The impact on their home of Boaz Davis and his wife Ann, arrived...
On January 26, 1948, a man posing as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. He explains that he’s there to treat everyone who might have been exposed to a recent outbreak of dysentery. Soon after drinking the medicine he...
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award
The place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. And the characters in this thrilling collection of stories are...
Esta sugestiva novela se enmarca en la tierra árida y fascinante de Lanzarote. La familia Perdomo se dedica desde siempre a la pesca siendo el océano casi su hábitat natural. Pero su rutinaria vida se verá sacudida por su hija Yaiza. Esta hija...
„Ochsenkutscher“ ist der erste veröffentlichte Roman von Erwin Strittmatter. Wie er nach Kriegsende nachts in der väterlichen Backstube seinen Helden erfand und am Roman arbeitete, hat er im 3. Teil seiner „Laden“-Trilogie Esau Matt, dem...
“Mercia Murray is a woman of fifty-two years who has been left.” Abandoned by her partner in Scotland, where she has been living for twenty-five years, Mercia returns to her homeland of South Africa to find her family overwhelmed by...
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light, a complex relationship rendered in a down-to-earth narrative.
October Light is one of John Gardner's...