Three short novels by the author of the cult classic Motorman
COTTAGE INDUSTRY
A bloody family drama about the bastard child of Charles Manson
After aiding in the murder of his aunt, Charles Manson's illegitimate son...
Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, an imaginative debut that ranges from Havana to Berlin.
Ancient cities and fallen empires come to life in this masterful collection. In the Byzantine court, a noble with a crippled hand is...
Damien March hasn't thought of his eccentric uncle for almost twenty years when he receives a terse message by telegram. "Patrick dead. Father." Damien, a journalist for the BBC in London, is even more shocked to learn that he has inherited his...
The second book of the Jerusalem Quartet, in which the fate of the Holy City is determined by an epic poker game played in the back of a Jerusalem antiques shop.
On New Year’s Eve, 1921, three men sit down to a poker game. The Great Jerusalem...
Marguerite Duras rose to global stardom with her erotic masterpiece The Lover (L’Amant), which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has over a million copies in print in English, has been translated into forty-three languages, and was adapted into a...
In the beginning there was Lucette, who is the mother to three children — Sammy, a gentle giant, almost blind, but a genius with locks; Corinne, a flighty beauty who cannot keep a job; and the child, an afterthought, who strives to make sense of...
Compared to Kafka and a member of the Surrealists, Richard Weiner is one of European literature’s best-kept secrets. The Game for Real marks the long overdue arrival of his dreamlike, anxiety-ridden fiction into English.
The book opens with...
Eleanor and Fulbert Sullivan live, with their nine children ranging from nursery to university age, in a huge country house belonging to Fulbert's parents, Sir Jesse and Lady Regan. Sir Jesse sends Fulbert, his only son, on a business mission to...