The publishing house is anchored like a ship along Stockholm''s main street, a large, bright building with an impressive rooftop terrace. The facade is a grid of wood and granite; flags with a cursive R sway in the wind. R as in Rydens. A young woman... Zobraziť viac
Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human... Zobraziť viac
In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a Harlem den, a travesti gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex, and in return they get what they deserve... Zobraziť viac
Raised by her grandmother in one of the famed yalis that line the Bosphorus, Celile occupies a unique space between the old world of the Ottoman Empire and the new world of the Republic. She drifts through ten years of marriage, reserved even with her... Zobraziť viac
After an accident - or ''the misfortune,'' as his cancer-ridden father''s caretaker, Celeste, calls it - Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver''s license and feeling impotent as... Zobraziť viac
A landmark biography of the most famous Italian journalist of the twentieth century. Zobraziť viac
A surreal love letter to this private side of The Met, Metropolitan Stories unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The... Zobraziť viac
The last summer before the end of World War II, Walter Proska is posted to a small unit tasked with ensuring the safety of a railway line deep in the forest on the border with Ukraine and Byelorussia. In this swampy region, a handful of men... Zobraziť viac
What is our relationship with the dead? How do we remember them? What dark secrets do our images of them hold? How do we emerge from grief to face the time we have left? Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Dolores Ayala, owner of an old... Zobraziť viac
In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells the story of her parents, which is the story of an excessive love, a passionate and unstable love story forged through constant anger and reconciliation, with an entire family''s mood dependent on it. Her father''s... Zobraziť viac
Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her era detested in the fairer sex. She was self-confident, strong-willed, and had a fiery temper at a time when women were supposed to be soft and... Zobraziť viac
It all begins and ends with plants. From the chance to live on this planet to the pleasure of listening to the sound of a violin-every story begins with a plant. There''s no getting around it. We animals account for a paltry 0.3% of the planet''s... Zobraziť viac
In this wonderfully entertaining book, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein, the author of Balzac''s Omelette (Other Press, 2011), draws out the literary and book-related themes in Proust''s work and life, thus providing not only a friendly... Zobraziť viac
Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of topics that have been increasingly dividing Americans, from police brutality and Confederate symbols to poverty and respectability politics. This book speaks to and for the millions of black and brown people... Zobraziť viac
Fazil''s comfortable existence studying literature is upended by his family''s sudden financial ruin, followed swiftly by the death of his father. Forced to sell his belongings and move to an old boardinghouse, he discovers a new side of the city,... Zobraziť viac
An erotic tale of jealousy, obsession, and revenge. Zobraziť viac
Around the time of the 2005 French riots, anthropologist and sociologist Didier Fassin spent fifteen months observing up close the daily life of an anti-crime squad in one of the largest precincts in the Paris region. His unprecedented study, which... Zobraziť viac
Stefan Valeriu, a young man from Romania who has just completed his medical studies in Paris, spends his vacation in the Alps, where he quickly becomes entangled with three different women. We follow Stefan after his return to ... Zobraziť viac
When he first meets Najwa at a lecture by Siri Hustvedt - whom he''s never read - our hero discovers a whole new world of feminist thought. Determined to impress her, he sets out sincerely on his journey to allyship. His mother confides in him about... Zobraziť viac
''Mercy is not an ointment for cruelty.'' Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from the Turkish city of Mardin near the Syrian border.... Zobraziť viac
