Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances? "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose...
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"Vlinders in een Duikerpak" vertelt het ontroerende verhaal over de Fransman Jean-Dominique Bauby die aan het locked-in-syndroom lijdt. Na een beroerte raakt hij in coma. Wanneer hij na twee maanden wakker wordt kan hij alleen zijn linkeroog nog...
Scherezade no teme a la muerte. No cree que el poder del mundo, representado por el Califa, consiga el exterminio de su imaginación.
Hace mil años Scherezade atravesó mil y una noches contando historias al Califa para salvar su vida...
«Voice of Our Shadow is the most frightening novel I've read since Bram Stoker's Dracula. I thought it was a love story, and it was. Then I thought it was a ghost story, and it was, sort of. Then I thought it was a story of madness, and it might...
A lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris's gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of...
Taking place in a kind of "internal space," populated by living ideas, Voices utilizes broken typography within the context of an equally broken narrative to examine an existence in which identity and self have become, themselves, imaginary, but...
Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times.
From the Predynastic Period, where...
From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories-provocative, funny, disturbing, magical-that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the...
A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself.
In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano...
Ночь, гроза, громады гор едва угадываются в кромешной тьме, ветер хлещет дождевыми струями, и посреди всего этого – самолет, такой...