Steven L. Peck's intriguing, literary narrative follows Gilda Trillim's many adventures; from her origins on a potato farm in Idaho, to an Orthodox Convent in the Soviet Union, to her life as a badminton champion...When Gilda is taken prisoner during the Vietnam war, she finds comfort in the company of the rats who cohabit her cell. Follow Gilda as she struggles to comprehend the meaning of life in this uncanny, philosophical novel which explores Mormonism, spirituality and what it means to be h...
In this witty and exuberant collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services--from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother i...
"Como en muchos de estos encuentros no acababa de convencerme de que eran reales, no estaba seguro si los habia imaginado, mas bien escritos, por lo menos en mi mente, o si habian pasado de verdad. Me sentia esquizofrenico y como en esas peliculas en las que de pronto el personaje principal se encuentra en una institucion mental y alli poco a poco le explican que todo lo que vivio en los ultimos anos, o en toda su vida, no fue mas que fruto de su mente. 'Pero entonces no estan todos los escritor...
The Flower Show and The Toth Family, two novellas in one volume by István Örkény (1912-79), introduce to an English-speaking audience a Hungarian writer with a keen sense of the absurdities of modern life. In the ’60s and ’70s, Örkény’s vein of black comedy earned him the epithet “master of the grotesque” for the popular dramatizations of these and other novels. The Flower Show (1977) is Örkény’s last novel and his most widely translated work of fiction. With consummate irony, the author exploit...
The Dairy of Anne Frank and More Wish Fulfillment in the Noughties
by Andrew Tonkovich
Sustainable Sh*t - The Ascension of a Millennial Hipster
by Seagull Editions and Hank Fredo
BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LONGBOURN 'Skillful . . . daring . . . extraordinary' The Guardian 'Beautifully written, empathetic and unflinching, it is very, very good' Daily Mail 'Insightful . . . beautifully paced . . . authentic’ The Irish Times Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know...
The linen besuited, white-booted barge of a man moving down the sidewalk was something to see, but the addition of the broad-brimmed straw fedora out of which protruded small antennae in four directions constituted another level of the unusual. The sight, augmented with Merlin's curious sidelong gait and frequent adjustment of knobs and rheostats alongside the hat's brim, would have been enough to induce in a hypothetical new-kid-on-the-block observer momentary catatonia, if not mild terror. Add...
La favola di Re Sbrizzio e Suor Caghetta (Distopie, #5)
by Mary Blindflowers