Meet John Cromer, one of the most unusual heroes in modern fiction. If the minority is always right then John is practically infallible. Growing up disabled and gay in the 1950s, circumstances force John from an early age to develop an intense...
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He climbs a ladder to reach another man's wife and gives himself up to her beauty, but then Pilgermann descends into a mob of peasants inspired by the Pope to shed the blood of Jews. Alone on the cobblestones, he cries out to Israel, to the Lord...
Pinball, 1973 is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, it is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase, and is the second novel written by...
Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea anemones....
Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means to be human; a hilarious,...
Presentado como un prólogo extenso a una pequeña antología de Baroja, este ensayo es en realidad un inteligente perfil biográfico de una de las más controvertidad figuras de la literatura española. Desde...
Presentado como un prólogo extenso a una pequeña antología de Baroja, este ensayo es en realidad un inteligente perfil biográfico de una de las más controvertidad figuras de la literatura española. Desde hace tiempo Mendoza viene repitiendo...
Pioneers and...
Pursued by a mermaid, two boys talk their way into pirating and end up in the Arctic where a secret unhinges them both. Disabled piecemeal, harassed by a parrot, marooned on a tree-challenged island, posing as Pilgrims, scrimshawing and singing...
Port-Royal, Jamaika, am 7. Juni 1692: Ein verheerendes Erdbeben hat die Stadt dem Erdboden gleichgemacht. Auch Sebastian, Kapitän des Piratenschiffes Jacare und leidenschaftlicher Kämpfer gegen den Sklavenhandel, fällt der...