Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force.
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her rep…
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered th…
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and p…
Rakstnieces vīram nav viegli. Visu pavasari viņa rakstīja. Es uzbūvēju siltumnīcu, domāju – nu viņa stādīs tomātus. Nekā – pašam vajadzēja stādīt. Labi, iestādīju. Nomainīju zemi balkona kastēs, domāju…
In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant music…
Trīsdesmit piecus gadus vecā Grēta ir piedzīvojusi sāpīgu zaudējumu. Tagad viņai nākas pavadīt vairākas nedēļas savā daudzstāvu nama dzīvoklī, lai atkoptos gan fiziski, gan garīgi. Tomēr ilgstošā bezd…
For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of being a star on film sets are long behind her. She’s found success and satisfaction from the inside …
