Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the...
A tale of a doomed crew beating their way up-river through the jungles of Guyana. In this novel, first published in 1960, can be traced the poetic vision, the themes and the designs of Harris's subsequent work, which included "The Guyana...
Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of...
Eric Chevillard’s visionary play of word and thought has been compared to the work of Beckett, Michaux, and Pinget, yet the universe he spins is utterly his own. Palafox (Editions de Minuit, 1990), Chevillard’s third novel of...
Esto me recuerda el grotesco relato que le hizo al Sr. Langton del estado lamentable de un joven de buena familia. "Señor, lo último que he sabido de él es que andaba por la ciudad matando gatos a tiros". Y entonces, en una especie de dulce...
An unforgettable portrait of a man haunted by memories of the woman who got away_blended skillfully with a searing look at the role of art and memory in our times.
In a small, foundering town in central New York, Molly Howe grows up to be a...
Sans moyens financiers, quelle revanche prendre sur une société aussi puissante que la Hackett Chemical quand elle « vire » ses employés sous prétexte de marasme économique ? Aucune.
Alan Pope, le premier « viré », le dit avec...