Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support. Living in Johannesburg as a representative of his family's publishing company, Toby moves easily, carelessly, between the complacent...
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Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provençal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it...
"Duras's language and writing shine like crystals." — The New Yorker
"A spectacular success. . Duras is at the height of her powers." — Edmund White
Available for the first time in English, Abahn Sabana David is a late-career...
La marshal Mackenzie Stewart estaba pasando un tranquilo fin de semana en New Hampshire, en la casa de su amiga la jueza federal Bernadette Peacham, cuando fue atacada. Ella pudo repeler el ataque, pero el agresor consiguió escapar. Todo...
Abba Abba is about two poets who may or may not have met in Rome in 1820-1821. One was John Keats, who was dying in a house on the Spanish Steps. The other was Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli a great poet, though little known outside Rome. The first...
A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poignant challenges of a vulnerable, imaginative father as he lives his everyday American existence.
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"Wenn du dich als Achtjähriger, als Dreizehnjähriger, als Sechzehnjähriger denkst, erkennst du dich in ihnen wieder?"
"Ja. Und sehr gerne dazu."
"Gibt es einen Lebensabschnitt, in dem du dir fremd vorkommst?"
"Zwischen fünfundzwanzig...