Albaanityttö Emine varttuu Jugoslavian maaseudulla, missä naisen paikka on kotona ja mies on perheen pää. Hänet naitetaan monipäiväisin juhlallisuuksin miehelle, jonka hän on tavannut vain kerran. Kun…
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single trau…
J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre heures du matin. Il m’a abordé dans la rue et j’ai fini par lui proposer de monter dans mon studio. …
Het nieuws reisde snel, zoals dat soort nieuws doet. Ik wist dat het ook over jou ging zodra het eerste bericht uit Parijs kwam. Bijna zes jaar geleden nu, op een vrijdag de dertiende. Een datum als e…
Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable wome…
Set against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic takes the reader on a dark journey through the psyche of the pre-war French intelligentsia, torn between …
Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Col…
Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist…
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her rep…
