Herman Mussert, a former teacher of Latin and Greek, falls asleep in Amsterdam one evening, only to wake up in a hotel room in Lisbon with the fear that he is dead. Reprint.
Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim jo…
De Chabotten ― vier broers, twee ouders en een hond. Alle zeven verhalen ze in Gezinsverpakking over hun familiebestaan. De stemmen van de Chabotten contrasteren, smelten samen, bewonderen, verzuchten…
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that…
