After Midnight

Author	Anita Loos
ISBN	0871401703

If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, Arkansas, the not-so-dumb blonde who knew that diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Outrageous, charming, and unforgettable, she’s been portrayed on stage and screen by Carol...

Author	Daphne du Maurier
ISBN	0316252980

By chance, John and Jean--one English, the other French--meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance to each other is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John falls into a drunken stupor. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, Jean...

Author	Anna Seghers
ISBN	3746651530

“Transit” is the perfect title for this masterpiece of refugee fiction!

There are so many layers of meaning in that short word, all symbolically integrated in the straightforward, realistic story, mirroring Anna Seghers’ own odyssey during the Second World War.

The most...

Author	Vivian Gornick
ISBN	0374298602

A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city...

Author	Volker Weidermann
ISBN	3462046004

Ein belgischer Badeort mit Geschichte und Glanz: Hier kommen sie alle noch einmal zusammen, die im Deutschland der Nationalsozialisten keine Heimat mehr haben. Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Irmgard Keun, Kisch und Toller, Koestler und Kesten, die verbotenen Dichter. Sonne, Meer, Getränke – es...

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Tatiana Țîbuleac

Aceasta este cartea. Este povestea unei femei bolnave de cancer și a fiului ei, care ajung într-un sat din Franța și își petrec acolo ultima vară. Nu am încercat să înmoi cuvintele. N-am compus scene inutile și nu am inventat adevăruri universale. Am încercat să fiu sinceră și să mă...

Author	Christopher Isherwood
ISBN	0586047956

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets, and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come around again.

In linked short stories, he says goodbye to Sally Bowles, to Fraulein Schroeder, to pranksters,...