The great maritime state of Orsenna has long been lulled by settled peace and prosperity. It is t...

Ara and Kittwo girls in the village schoolseem to have nothing in common. Arathe elderis largeear...

At the height of Stalin's postwar terrorInnokentya young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling c...

A bigbrawling novel of waterfront life in Bahiapacked with cardsharpersprostitutespimpsdrunks and...

Irene is 37 years old and just out of prison after serving time for terrorist activities. Decidin...

Set in Buenos AiresLisbonViennaBudapest and Odessaboth before and after the Second World WarEdgar...

Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and liesone of Germany's greatest writers as...

In 1951 Octavio Paz travelled to India to serve as an attachin the Mexican Embassy. Eleven years ...

This is the story of Aurora Ortizwho lives in Madridand whoat the age of only thirtyhas been wido...

When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last s...

In the white heat the sky is opaquethe air leaden and the light intense. A single cavalryman wond...

Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon...

Cricket writer, acclaimed biographer, editor of the 'London Magazine,' and one of the central fig...

Heart of a Dog (Sobachye serdtse) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satir...

'My first mistake was to be heterosexual.'Such is one of several complaints in the first of four ...

When a Portuguese proofreader rewrites history by changing a word in a text, he unexpectedly wins...