This delightful tour of a site rich with both history and mythology serves as an introduction not only to the city of a thousand names but to the very spirit of its inhabitants... Zobraziť viac
From political fictionalist Alisa Ganieva: a neo-noir portrait of a legal system in which everything is broken and no one is innocent. Offended Sensibilities chronicles a series of sudden deaths that occur among officials of a provincial Russian town.... Zobraziť viac
Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final... Zobraziť viac
"A welcome volume of stories from Russia’s finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and modernist experimentation." —Sam Sacks, Wall Street JournalThe first English-language collection of short... Zobraziť viac
Two friends, one a budding writer home from abroad, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the most notorious nightclubTram 83in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. Tram 83 plunges ... Zobraziť viac
Shortlisted for the inaugural Warwick Prize for WritingA dazzlingly original exploration of literature's limits-and its necessity--Montano's Malady is Enrique Vila-Matas at his most mischievous, self-referential, and intellectually provocative.Both the... Zobraziť viac
A classic of dark eroticism from one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. Zobraziť viac
With each chapter embodying a separate Commandment, Living Tissue, 10x10 is both a Decalogue and a ribald, exuberant, deliriously inventive postmodern Decameron, which covers four decades in the life of the protagonist, unfolding against the backdrop... Zobraziť viac
In 2016, Shane Anderson made a vow to live according to the four core values of the Golden State Warriors to escape a decade of defeats—including divorce, debilitating spinal surgery and a suicide attempt. The basketball team’s values of joy,... Zobraziť viac
