In this spellbinding, utterly unconventional fiction, an aging author who is identified only as Reader contemplates the writing of a novel. As he does, other matters insistently crowd his mind — literary and cultural anecdotes, endless quotations...
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This selection of stories, set in mythical times and in 1920s and 1930s London and Paris, reflects Antal Szerb’s love of life and irrepressible irony that has become his trademark: from Szerb’s earliest stories, driven by his intense political...
The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling...
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell née Stevenson (1810–1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte...
The Toys of Peace and Other...
1944-ый год. США оправляется после Великой депрессии. К маленькому странствующему цирку присоединяется знаменитая семья воздушных...
Nominated for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction!
“James Baldwin meets Aldous Huxley” in this “highly original” speculative fable (Chicago Tribune).
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Fiction Pick for 2013
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A mother. A son. A virtual world they both share where each could live forever and achieve their fullest potential. Until one of them decides that isn’t enough for life.
At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital...
Working on behalf of a cunning and mysterious couple, a woman embarks on a haunting search for a stranger (a child? somebody’s lover? a ghost?) and undertakes a perplexing, dangerous, deeply layered, and apparently timeless journey originating on...
Jim Crace's acclaimed debut novel explores an imaginary seventh continent, subtly different from any in the world we know. Its landscapes, wildlife, customs and communities are alien, even frightening — but the continent's inhabitants are...