When Daru Shezad is fired from his banking job in Lahore, he begins a decline that plummets the length of this sharply drawn, subversive tale. Before long, he can't pay his bills, and he loses his toe…
The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag - an Irish speaking community in County Donegal. The 'scholars' are a cross-section of the local…
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…
Miné Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after the bombing o…
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…
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years – the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Va…
“Jauna, ne gluži pirmā svaiguma, bet vēl gana ņipra, simpātiska un izglītota sieviete meklē vīrieti, vēlams bez slimīgām seksuālām tieksmēm. Būtu jauki, ja viņš nepīpētu, pārmērīgi nelietotu alkoholu,…
The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country.
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he - mostly - stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he's told, and his fut…
"The Mark on the Wall" is the first published story by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1917 as part of the first collection of short stories written by Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Wool…
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the US Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart atta…
In this novel, Butler satirically describes a utopian society, using the civilization of 'Erewhon' ('nowhere,' scrambled) to satirize beliefs popular in the England of his day. Butler wrote a sequel t…
The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renown…
