Dukla

Author	Sándor Márai
ISBN	0375707425

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.

In a secluded woodland castle...

Author	Bill Clegg
ISBN	1476798176

The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy.

On the eve of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's life is completely devastated when a shocking...

Author	David Mamet
ISBN	0140127224

According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this instructive and funny book is written in dialogue form and based on film classes Mamet taught at Columbia University. He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition...

Author

Saša Stanišić

HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was danach kommt.

HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über meine Heimaten, in der Erinnerung und der Erfindung. Ein Buch über Sprache, Schwarzarbeit, die Stafette der Jugend und viele Sommer. Den Sommer,...

Author	Umberto Eco
ISBN	0262527138

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel "The Name of the Rose," he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, "How to Write...

Author	Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira (Leo)
ISBN	2205049674

Aldébaran, quelque part dans l'espace et dans le futur... Une planète accueillante où s'est installée, en 2079, la première colonie terrienne envoyée au-delà du système solaire. C'était il y a plus de cent ans, déjà. Depuis, les liaisons radio sont coupées. Alors, peu à peu, la vie...

Author	Ota Pavel
ISBN	0811211657

Unassuming and unforgettable, the stories of How I Came to Know Fish memorialize Ota Pavel's childhood in Czechoslovakia—his beloved family, the flash of fish in clear streams, and the annihilation of this world by the Nazis. His father (a wildly canny fisherman) first has his fish pond confiscated...