A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers...
Samarcanda é a Pérsia de Omar Khayyam, poeta do best-seller vinho, livre-penador, astrólogo genial, compre e a Pérsia amin maalouf de Hassan Sabbah, livraria fundador da ordem dos Assassinos, a Samarcanda seita mais temível da História....
Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising Khayyam's genius, the judge decides to spare him and gives him...
One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man's last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi.
What follows is a spellbinding game of cat and mouse as James is abducted,...
"Sami swoi" to opowie?? o zwa?nionych rodach Pawlak?w i Kargul?w. Przed wojn? kargulowa krowa wesz?a na ??k? Pawlak?w, co spowodowa?o, ?e sp?on??y dwie stodo?y, pola?a si? krew i Ja?ko Pawlak, uciekaj?c przed kar? za poci?cie kos?...
"Sami swoi" to opowieść o zwaśnionych rodach Pawlaków i Kargulów. Przed wojną kargulowa krowa weszła na łąkę Pawlaków, co spowodowało, że spłonęły dwie stodoły, polała się krew i Jaśko Pawlak, uciekając przed karą za pocięcie...
Slovak writer Daniela Kapitáňová’s first novel is narrated by an intellectually and physically stunted creature and arch-conformist who enthusiastically embraces every kind of prejudice both under Communism and in the newly independent...