It s fantastic, it s incredible Pedro Almod var A hauntingly beautiful, unforgettable Norwegian classic, ripe for discoveryIn the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful stranger across a station platform. She follows...Daugiau...
These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death Mariana Enr quez A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary iconA writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeur...Daugiau...
Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel Telegraph I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such life and joy Natalia Ginzburg The first una...Daugiau...
A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into EnglishWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been...Daugiau...
A cult classic A high and a comedown at once a paroxysm of sex and booze and, above all, colour wryly funny it is also devastating The New YorkerAn unforgettable portrait of a smart, sensitive, yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to li...Daugiau...
Selected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry from one of the twentieth century s pre-eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be courageous in the final reckoning it is the only thing...Daugiau...
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread, were for others the mask of tragedy. Jean Bl...Daugiau...
The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an intimate, captivating picture of Simone de Beauvoi...Daugiau...
The first manga adaptation of one of the world s greatest twentieth-century fiction classicsMy mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I dont know.An outsider in society, an outsider in his own life, Meursault seems indifferent to everything. The d...Daugiau...
The bestselling classic about three generations of a deaf family in modern America, by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden A miracle of empathy, a tour de force The New York TimesTwo young deaf people, Abel and Janice, elope from their...Daugiau...
A masterpiece ... the greatest novel of the Holocaust The Guardian A haunting, dreamlike portrayal of the encroaching horror of the Holocaust onto a genteel MittelEuropean resort town Badenheim, a resort town near the forests of Vienna, is prepari...Daugiau...
An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma Aharon Appelfeld was the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish parents living in what is now Ukraine at the outbreak of World Wa...Daugiau...
Read this book . . . what a gift of lyric language and style, of emotion purified by pain this is Los Angeles TimesFleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenager in 1880s Ukraine, is taken in by a Jewish family, finding safety in their warmth and ri...Daugiau...
Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on Americas abortive civil-rights movement -The New York TimesIn this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from...Daugiau...
One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written Thomas PikettyThe twentieth centurys most prophetic critic of capitalism Prospect Polanyi s revolutionary work is a must-read Mariana MazzucatoKarl Polanyis landmark 1944 work...Daugiau...
The undisputed masterpiece of n gritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism GuardianWe shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the n gritude movement became a rallying cry for decolon...Daugiau...
There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging painA Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and...Daugiau...
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Manns Death in Ven...Daugiau...
Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japans greatest writers It was the height of summer, and there was anger in the rays of the sunA summer holiday that turns to tragedy; a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish; a couple s unusual way of making a...Daugiau...
A book so astonishing that I immediately reread it, fearful it might disappear Patti SmithThe war is over but Alexander Jessiersky, a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist, is haunted by guilt over the neighbour he inadvertently sent to a c...Daugiau...
