Romaan Inglise kaupmehe poja Frank Osbaldistone romantilistest seiklustest oti mägismaal. Peategelane meenutab vanas eas oma nooruse sündmusi, mis viisid ta osavõtmiseni oti mägilaste ülestõusust ja abiellumiseni armastatud...
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In wartime, people are either friends or enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die…
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While Tito’s rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction.
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Against the Country is a gift for fans of Southern Gothic and metafiction alike. Set in the Virginia pines, and overrun with failed parents, racist sex offenders, cast-off priests, and suicidal chickens, this novel challenges literary convention...
An imaginative, acid western from a rising star in the indie lit world.
Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them while between towns. For miles, there is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes,...
Rahimi (Earth and Ashes) won the 2008 Prix Goncourt for this brief, melodramatic novel set amid factional violence somewhere in Afghanistan or elsewhere. It follows the circumscribed movements of a Muslim woman largely confined to the house where...
One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a...
In 1938, Francis Phelan, a murderer, is reduced to flop houses and hobo jungles and returns to a depressed Albany, where-as a gravedigger-he shuffles his rag tag way to...
Far out on the plains of northern Norway stands a house. It belongs to two middle-aged sisters. They seldom venture out and nobody visits. The younger needs nursing and the older never dared to leave. Until one day a man arrives. The women realise...
'What [Wilson] Harris is doing is to extend the boundaries of our very conception of fiction.' Robert Nye.
First published in 1982, The Angel at the Gate is offered to readers as Wilson Harris's analysis and interpretation of the...