An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets...
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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...
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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...
Only a fool would risk his life to please a mob of crazy peons. But only a coward could refuse the challenge of this greatest bull of...
Coenraad de Buys was the most dangerous man around in the Cape of the late 1700s. At eight he crossed his first frontier and left his mother’s house behind. Left his home (the first of many); left the Cape; left civilisation. From the Langkloof...
"An invigorating challenge. The reader indeed finds in it entertainment, emotions and intrigue, but also reflection and thought on grave issues." — Lluís Satorras, Babelia
Riddled with problems, Joanes has to travel to the Mayan Ribera to...
When an unemployed poet finds himself thrown in jail after raping his neighbor, his time in the slammer is mysteriously cut short when he’s abruptly taken to a new home — a countryside manor where his every need seen to. All that’s required of...
border town on the steppe. A small group of emaciated and feral refugees appears out of nowhere, spreading fear and panic in the town. When police commissioner Pontus Beg orders their arrest, evidence of a murder is found in their luggage. As he...
Hydroplane is a story collection filled with the urgency of erotic obsession. Its breathless voices, palpable in their desire, are propelled by monomania, rushing from one preoccupation into another: a garage, a painting class, a basketball game,...