A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality” (Kirkus Reviews). Upon her mother's death from Alzheimers, Ernaux embarks o…
"Zweig is the most adult of writers; civilized, urbane, but never jaded or cynical."—The IndependentA new selection of Stefan Zweig's most powerful Fantastic Night, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The F…
Na početku bijaše brodolom iz kojeg je jedan mladić jedva izvukao živu glavu nasukavši se na obali otočnog mjestašca poznatog po zaštitnici svetoj Margareti, zaduženoj za čudotvorno povećanje natalite…
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flan…
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator att…
Quando "Il grande quaderno" apparve in Francia a metà degli anni Ottanta, fu una sorpresa. La sconosciuta autrice ungherese rivela un temperamento raro in Occidente: duro, capace di guardare alle trag…
Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust,…
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband--but can their marriage survive her passionate love?
Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor t…
De vrijheid mag lonken, maar liefst niet de hele dag; wanneer de vrijheid uitsluitend tijdens de zomervakantie lonkt, is het leven al zwaar genoeg. Jörgen Hofmeester is vader van twee dochters en werk…
An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English Literature and the disregarded world of London gang warfare.
Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home to live with their father in Toronto. Enjoying an unexpected sense of liberty, she heads to …
