Rimbaud the Son," widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur...
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Ring Roads, for which Modiano was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman (1972), is the story of a young Jew, Serge, in search of his father, Chalva, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the...
In his new, long-awaited novel, Shashi Tharoor, the acclaimed author of The Great Indian Novel and Show Business, whom the Independent (London) called "one of the finest novelists writing in English today", once again experiments masterfully with...
A South African woman struggles to convince the police that she has murdered her black...
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls asleep...
When sociopath Tom Ripley’s shady accomplice, Reeves Minot, asks for his help in committing a murder, Ripley suggests he approach a local art dealer, Jonathan Trevanny, instead. Trevanny insulted Ripley at a party so Ripley sets in motion a chain...
Albinus, un respetable crítico de arte, se enamora de la joven Margot, que trabaja como acomodadora en un cine, y se fuga con ella. Pero aparece una tercera persona: Axel Rex, un joven y cínico artista que ha sido amante de...
A Stephen King novel telling of unfair imprisonment and...
This was the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth, and went on to win the 1980 Man Booker Prize, beating Anthony Burgess' Earthly Powers. It focuses upon the account of a trip to Australia, and takes the form of a journal written by...
From 'witty and endearing' to 'impossible to put down,' the critics have given elite marks to Diana Peterfreund's Secret Society Girl and Under the Rose. Now, in a wildly captivating new novel, Amy 'Bugaboo' Haskel and her fellow Rose & Grave...