A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America. Zobraziť viac
When Asa's husband is offered a new job away from the city, the couple end up relocating. And since his new office is very close to his family's home, it makes sense to move in next door to his parents... Zobraziť viac
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2023.An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with queer histories and their place within them, from the critically acclaimed author of We the Animals. Zobraziť viac
A bestseller in Germany, Walter Kempowski's autobiographical novel is both a tender coming of age story and a chilling exploration of how one family adjusted to life under the Nazis Zobraziť viac
Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women Zobraziť viac
Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His parents are psychologists, his mom a famous author in the field. A renowned debater and orator, an aspiring poet, and - although it requires a lot of posturing and weight lifting - one... Zobraziť viac
A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and their loneliness... Zobraziť viac
A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett... Zobraziť viac
A reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others. Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was given three boxes of ripening apricots, fruit from... Zobraziť viac
Howard Hinton and his family are living in Japan, escaping from a scandal. Hinton's obsession is his work, his voyages into mathematical pure space, into the fourth dimension... Zobraziť viac
Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, ... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, a novel that moves between Japan past and present to tell a time-bending story about desire and destiny... Zobraziť viac
From the author of A Meal in Winter and Four Soldiers, a poignant story of war, trauma and its aftermath. Zobraziť viac
Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice... Zobraziť viac
A brilliant collection of fictions in the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar Keret and Amy Hempel. These are stories of what the world looks like from a child's pure but sometimes vengeful or muddled perspective. These are stories of life in a war zone, ... Zobraziť viac
1919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian front line. There is a lull in the fighting, so their days are filled with precious hours of freedom, ... Zobraziť viac
When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives... Zobraziť viac
Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea, and for millennia the hemispheres were separate, evolving almost entirely different... Zobraziť viac
Welcome to Iceland, a very small nation with a very large number (two hundred and sixty-five) of (mostly) very small museums. Founded in the backyards of houses, begun as jokes or bets or memorials to lost friends, these museums tell the story of an... Zobraziť viac
A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers... Zobraziť viac
