A Dream in Polar Fog

Author	Toni Morrison
ISBN	0307264238

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic...

Author	Geraldine Brooks
ISBN	0143036661

Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction. From the author of the acclaimed YEAR OF WONDERS, an historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe, on the front lines of the American Civil War. Acclaimed author Geraldine Brooks gives us the story of the absent father from Louisa May Alcott's...

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1932360719

Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson...

Author	Roberto Saviano
ISBN	0374165270

A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal....

Author

Erlend Loe

Otec dvoch detí jedného dňa spadne v lese z bicykla a zrazu zacíti pokoj a harmóniu. Už ho neotravujú nekonečné detské pesničky zo synových rozprávok, myšlienky na novú kúpeľňu a výber správnej záchodovej misy. O to viac si však uvedomí smrť svojho otca. Rozhodne sa odsťahovať...

Author	Evan S. Connell
ISBN	0865470561

Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0865470561 / 9780865470569 can be found here

The wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s Kansas City, India Bridge, tries to cope with her dissatisfaction with an easy, though empty, life.

Before Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique there was...