It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville’s investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Osman is a young university student whose life is changed by a chance encounter with a mysterious book. Osman becomes obsessed with the book, which seems to contain all the magic and power of life and love. Romantic and elusive, The New Life is a rhapsody to love and an investigation into the shadowy nature of self.
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
Represents an exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality as seen through the eyes of the dying Serge Valene, an inhabitant of a large Parisian apartment block.
Aufseher im Paviangehege? Mietweihnachtsengel bei der dubiosen Agentur "Schenken von oben"? Walerians bisheriger Karriereweg gleicht einem einzigen Betriebsunfall. Als Knirps hatte er die wertvolle Armbanduhr des Vaters in ihre Bestandteile zerlegt, ohne den folgenschweren Vorgang wieder rückgängig machen zu können. Danach geschah nichts Erwähn...more
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.â...more
A new translation of the first volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time follows a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors and includes the novella, Swann's Love. Reprint.
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rèuya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celãal, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celãal, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celãal's identity, wearing his clothes, answe...more
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