Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. …
David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to probe the darkest truths hidden in the secret recesses of the soul. With reckless abandon, he used his t…
In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by tota…
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life a…
Although most of the action of The Mezzanine occurs on the escalator of an office building, where its narrator is returning to work after buying shoelaces, this startlingly inventive and witty novel t…
7 minut i 37 stron do Hollywood Katedra nominowana do Oscara TOMEK BAGIŃSKI - twórca Katedry, filmu nominowanego do Oskara, i JACEK DUKAJ - autor prozy, na której motywach powstał film, wznoszą w tej ks…
Przedwiośnie - ostatnia powieść Żeromskiego - prezentuje panoramiczny obraz państwa polskiego odradzającego się po latach niewoli. Głównym bohaterem swego utworu o młodej ojczyźnie pisarz uczynił czło…
The Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre. It recounts the sleazy pr…
A tale of pilgrimage and hope, betrayal and transformation. It was Avluela the Flier's scarlet and ebony wings that lead the Watcher to the seven hills of the ancient city, leaving the skies and deep …
