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"Weidmann vous apparut dans une édition de cinq heures, la tête emmaillotée de bandelettes blanches, religieuse et encore aviateur blessé, tombé dans les seigles, un jour de septembre pareil à

« Les nuits où je ne dormais pas, j’ouvrais le velux et je m’installais sur le toit, j’étais le seul dans la cité à jouir de ce privilège, passer la nuit à la belle étoile, dans le plus grand secre

Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Meanwhile a cohort of interested parties circle.

A sweeping epic by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić about power, identity, and Islam set in 19th-century Ottoman Bosnia and Istanbul.

On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s evocative, moving, often fantastic, short novel about one man’s conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution.

I try to see him among a migrating flock—he will take the loneliness of my room on his long journey; each whistling note he makes will be a little of my sadness falling over the ocean, to be swallo

Lesbian storyteller Ivan E.

An eccentric old man is dying of cancer, and his painfully proud daughter must ask an embittered doctor for help.

Other People's Worlds by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers. What chance has a nice middle-class woman got against a determined conman?

When Graham Woodard is hired to restore part of a previously lost silent horror film—Angel of the Abyss—the last thing he expects is the first in a series of murders clearly meant to keep it lost.

The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . .

"Emotionally resonant and deeply characterized." —School Library Journal (starred review) From the author of You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone comes a stunning contemporary novel, pe

Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and

Au lieu d’aménager la maison qu’il vient juste de faire construire, le narrateur de Pas d’inquiétude va être contraint de prendre un long congé pour rester près de son fils malade et s’installe ave

A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan by the astonishing Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award.