In the 11th century, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sick—and discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on h…
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Christopher Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets, and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come around again…
Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice. Craig Thompson's poignant graphic memoir plays out against the backdrop of a Midwestern win…
El hombre que pudo reinar (1888) trata de dos aventureros británicos en la India que se convierten en reyes de Kafiristán, una parte remota de Afganistán. La historia está inspirada en las hazañas de …
Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability in the swimming pool has the potential t…
At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her …
Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another.
Quando "Il grande quaderno" apparve in Francia a metà degli anni Ottanta, fu una sorpresa. La sconosciuta autrice ungherese rivela un temperamento raro in Occidente: duro, capace di guardare alle trag…
Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of th…
El "Romancero gitano" difunde el nombre de su autor por todo el ámbito de la literatura de nuestra lengua. Aclara el poeta que "aunque se llama gitano, es el poema de Andalucía porque el gitano es lo …
