Books

Jim Talbot, a writer with a dozen unpublished novels under his belt, has been roundly rejected by virtually every agent and publisher in the land, and is willing to go to extreme lengths to make his dream of literary stardom come true. Charles...
By: Alessandro Gallenzi

For generations of migrant workers, from Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl of the 1930s to Mexican labourers today, Imperial County has held the promise of paradise – and the reality of hell. Sprawling across a stinking artificial sea, across the deserts,...
By: William T. Vollmann

Drawing on events and situations from the present day, but setting them in a recognizable near future, Living Souls follows the lives of a vast array of characters against the backdrop of a guerrilla conflict in Russian territory between the...
By: Dmitry Bykov

Torn from his father and a loving sister, the young student Zuba is imprisoned for a crime he has not even thought about committing. His misfortune: to live in a world where corruption is rife and honest and law-abiding people are crushed by the...

After marrying Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace , Sofia Behrs kept a detailed diary until his death in 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many...
By: Sofia Tolstoy

Nanase cannot remember when she first realized she could read people’s minds, but not once during her eighteen years has she ever thought that it was a particularly unusual ability. Yet, when she gets a job as a live-in maid, she is inevitably drawn...
By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Jan’s father has been summarily executed by the Nazis. His mother and his older sister Maria have disappeared, and his younger sister Lena has been removed to a remote farm in the German countryside. With Europe in the throes...
By: Maureen Myant

Torn from his father and a loving sister, the young student Zuba is imprisoned for a crime he has not even thought about committing. His misfortune: to live in a world where corruption is rife and honest and law-abiding people are crushed by the...
By: Kachi A. Ozumba

Laura Rivera can’t believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in the living room of her home, in front of her two young daughters. Nobody knows who pulled the trigger, but Laura will not rest easy until she finds out....
By: Horacio Castellanos Moya