Don’t mess with a tough guy with time on his hands. Especially if you have secrets to keep. A head injury requires a mandatory health check. That’s Naval Intelligence’s standard procedure. Covert operative David Trevellyan...
En vida de Mijaíl Bulgákov difícilmente alguien se habría atrevido a considerarlo un "clásico" de la literatura rusa, ya que, después de haber gozado de un brevísimo período de éxito durante la década de los veinte, Bulgákov fue víctima...
Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit. He likes to pretend to be other people — a jockey, a shipping magnate, a foreign art dealer — and he likes to do this...
This unusual epic from the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history.Set in Cairo, Morning and Evening Talk traces three related families from...
Deuxième grand roman de Louis-Ferdinand Céline,Mort à crédit, publié en 1936, raconte l'enfance du Bardamu de Voyage au bout de la nuit, paru quatre ans auparavant. Après un prologue situant son présent, médecin dans les années trente, le...
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.
The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high...