### Review"Paul Hoffman's newest novel, *The Left Hand Of God*, certainly delivers the terrible goods. . . .There's gloom aplenty here, but it's tempered by a sly wit, complex characters, and a narrative engine that grinds all objections to dust....
Als deutsche Truppen im Sommer 1941 den Katharinen-Palast besetzen, einst Residenz der russischen Zaren, entbrennt ein erbitterter Machtkampf um das Bernsteinzimmer. Dem brutalen Gauleiter Koch gelingt es, das Zimmer zunächst nach...
Nostromo (1904), a story of revolution, politics, and financial manipulation in a South American republic, centres, for all its close-packed incidents, upon one idea—the corruption of the characters by the ambitions that they set before...