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Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.

A cat may look at a king, says an old proverb.

Competition for church members in Mount Oak has reached a furious peak. When tragedy strikes one of their hometown sons, the church women are drawn together through compassion.

A New York Times Notable Book. "A rich, seductive meld of characters real and fictive, of history and fancy." -New York Times Book Review.

On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box adjacent to London’s Thames River and began starving himself.

Clara Gutierrez is an AI repair technician and a wanderer.

One of the great German writers of the 20th century draws from his own life to present a "brave, fearless, and honest" tale of one man's dark descent into depression and alcoholism (

This classic novel is the story of what happens when an idealistic, fiercely honest young man tries to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with the realities of America of the 1940s.

Like Francis Prescott in The Rector of Justin, Guy Prime enjoyed the distinction of having become a legend in his lifetime. But in Guy's case, the legend is one of betrayal and infamy.

Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world.

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan.

Dans une petite maison bordant la ligne TGV entre Lausanne et Vallorbe, une femme a été assassinée. Près de Châtel-Saint-Denis, un garçon disparaît durant sa leçon d'équitation.

"A novel of raw human longing... His stripped-down prose focuses on the deeply personal with precision and insight...

Swashbuckling historical fiction from the author of I, Claudius. “A cleverly balanced mixture of spice, fact, humor and adventure on and off the high seas” (Kirkus Reviews).

This third installment in the Chronicles of Arundel is set during the War of 1812.