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As Chile descends into chaos, two disparate souls begin “an odd-couple romance, in the tradition of Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Crying Game” (Kirkus Reviews).

Next to Nature, Art is the fourth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.

"Ça veut dire quoi grandir ? Ça veut dire qu’un jour on s’ennuie. On n’a pas envie d’être là, on a envie d’être nulle part, ni de rentrer à la maison, ni d’aller chez notre père.

The island of Sinos. Strategically positioned between Greece and Turkey, this small Mediterranean isle is a relic of the past—an old Turkish stronghold fortified by the Nazis during World War II.

Having given voice in previous novels to the extraordinary Kate Vaiden, Blue Calhoun, and Roxanna Slade, Reynolds Price — one of America's most respected men of letters — adds Noble Norfleet t

Pour Noël, je voudrais... un beau barman tatoué ! Assise dans ce pub londonien, à des kilomètres de chez elle, Calista ne sait plus qui écouter : sa raison ou son cœur ?

« Ces moments où l'on se retrouve face à soi-même, en difficulté.

"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.