An attempt to portray the horror of certain men's brutal sexual domination of women, this novel by the German author of "The Piano Teacher" tells the story of Gerti, a woman who turns in revulsion from her husband to a younger man, only to...
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A badly injured man. A nationwide power failure. A village buried in snow. A desperate struggle for survival. These are the ingredients of The Weight of Snow, Christian Guay-Poliquin’s riveting new novel.
After surviving a major accident, the...
The world's most famous monster comes to life in this 1818 novel, a compelling narrative that combines Gothic romance and science fiction to tell of an ambitious young doctor's attempts to breathe life into an artificial man. Despite the doctor's...
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A Journey to Crete, Costantinople, Naples and Florence: Three Months Abroad
A Journey to Crete, Costantinople, Naples and Florence: Three Months...
"If Italo Calvino decided to make one of his invisible cities visible, the result might look something like Pfeijffer's Genoa." — Benjamin Moser
An absolute joy to read, La Superba, winner of the most prestigious Dutch literary prize, is a...
Former Elle editor Lee delivers a standout debut dealing with the rigors of love and survival during a time of war, and the consequences of choices made under duress. Claire Pendleton, newly married and arrived in Hong Kong in 1952, finds work...
FUP, like all of Jim Dodge's work, takes place between rain and sunlight, diamonds and love. Read it. Live a little...
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is classic of American fiction and display the authors ability to depict American landscapes and...
Amazon.co.uk Review"Every family has its black sheep-in ours it was Uncle Petros": the narrator of Apostles Doxiadis's novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture is the mystified nephew of the family's black sheep, unable to understand...