Life of Christ

Author	Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
ISBN	9023652533

In "Het verboden rijk" (1932) van J. Slauerhoff raken twee verhalen bijna onontwarbaar verstrengeld. We bevinden ons beurtelings in de zestiende en in de twintigste eeuw. In het ene verhaal is de hoofdpersoon de romantische figuur Camoes, een 16e-eeuwse Portugese dichter, die vanwege zijn verboden...

Author	Etienne van Heerden
ISBN	0670828319

There’s nothing worse than a reading slump and when you commit yourself to a project like this they inevitably happen. It is impossible to like something that you don’t feel like reading and from Matigari onwards (with the exception of Watchmen) this was happening. Unfortunately I’ve experienced...

Author	Thomas Deloney
ISBN	0854170928

Publisher: London: Printed by Eliz Allde for R. Bird, Edinburgh, Printed by J. Ballantyne and co. Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com...

Author	Zhang Jie
ISBN	0860687643

Published in 1980, Heavy Wings focuses on the Morning Light Auto Works in Beijing, a microcosm of the ongoing struggle between reformers who want to allow a measure of freedom and party hardliners clinging to the ideology that justifies their privilege and power. It provoked a storm of controversy...

Author	Arnold Zweig
ISBN	1585673358

During the late 20's many of those who experienced World War I wrote semi-autobiographical novels. One of them was Arnold Zweig (1887-1968), a German writer, anti-war and anti-fascist activist. He is known for his six-part cycle on World War I called The Great War of the White Men and the first part of...

Author	Cora Sandel
ISBN	0821407562

But a wound opened inside. Delight and melancholy welled up simultaneously from the depths of her mind. She could not understand why nor protect herself from them. They streamed over her together with the light, making her shrink with painful impatience. Tears came, God knows how. One moment she was...

Author

Ciril Kosmač

[narrator has returned home as WWII ends, after 15 years of fighting as a partisan; his aunt shows him the Latin verb study sheets still tacked to the ceiling of his bedroom where he studied as he lay in bed]
“Right you Are,” I smiled. “Amo--amas--amat…How odd!” I shook my head. “How odd…”
“Eh,...

Author

Antun Šoljan

Потрясающая книга, даже потрясающе безысходная книга! Гибрид "Замка" Кафки и "Чумы" сами знаете кого. Плюс вот эта вот восточная абсурдность, которая...

Author	Mykhaylo Osadchy
ISBN	0156155508

this book more than any deserves a new press run and some attention. the translation, to my ears, is already near-flawless.

it's ukrainian, but sits at the pinnacle of soviet literature, which is to say, soviet dissident literature. solzhenitsyn and shalamov and yermakov are...

Author	Martin Walser
ISBN	3518365940

Der 35-jährige Anselm Kristlein, verheiratet und Vater dreier Kinder, versucht sich seit dem Abbruch seines Studiums als Vertreter. Als ihm ein Bekannter das Abgebot unterbreitet, als Werbetexter zu arbeiten, steigt er innerhalb eines Jahres zum gefragten Experten auf. Diesen Karrieresprung...

Author

Heruy Wolde Selassie

Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase (8 May 1878 – 19 September 1938; ብላቴን፡ጌታ፡ኅሩይ፡ወልደ፡ሥላሴ Blatten-Geta Həruy Wäldä-səllase) was a Foreign Minister of Ethiopia and a writer in Amharic..

Author	Oles Honchar
ISBN	0880541571

The Cathedral pits the utilitarian and filthy ore smelting plant against the dilapidated, but inspiring cathedral, ignored during the Soviet era and used as a grain store. "The plants covered the whole horizon with smoke. They had no days off. Day and night they smoked with epic calm. The cathedral...

Author	Edmund Wilson
ISBN	0877457697

It took me awhile before I got really interested on this book's story. The prose is in the first person and told by an unnamed narrator. He tells the reader not only the daily happenings in his life but also more importantly, about the two women that he just met at the beginning of the story. Their names are...

Author	Xosé Neira Vilas
ISBN	1412028922

We are in front of a masterpiece of galician literature,i obviously have read it in galician but have put the title in english with the goal of give to it more universality.

I think it is in some USA list of the 1000 book one have to read before die.

Tells in first person the memories written...

Author

Erskine Caldwell

A ridiculously overheated melodrama set on a decaying southern plantation, featuring a prideful, spoiled young "aristocrat", his mother who encourages him in those traits, his neglected, weepy wife, their downtrodden servants and field hands, a "modern" cousin, an earthy lower-class tenant......

Author	Saunders Lewis
ISBN	1854111957

Opinion on Monica has been deeply divided since its publication in 1930. Saunders Lewis's first novel was fiercely attacked by Welsh-speaking critics for its portrayal of sexual obsession and manipulation. For the first time the psychology which was such a feature of the work of contemporary authors...

Author	Felix Timmermans
ISBN	3458331301

Der lebensfrohe und naturverbundene Pallieter, über dessen Alter und bisheriges Leben der Leser nichts Genaueres erfährt, lebt auf einem kleinen Hof im Tal des Flüsschens Nethe zusammen mit seiner frommen Schwester Charlot, die ihm den Haushalt führt, sowie dem Pferd Beiaard, dem Hund Lubas...

Author	Ward Ruyslinck
ISBN	0720622255

This is the story of a married couple who have lived in semi-isolation in a tumbledown shack on the outskirts of a town. Theirs has become almost an animal existence. Silvester, the husband, does not believe in love, beauty, God, or even in himself. His wife Margriet lives in constant fear of war. Whatever...

Author	S.Y. Agnon
ISBN	0805206477

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people."

The book is basically about a group of Jewish men (rabbis mostly) from Poland who decides to go to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem....

Author	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
ISBN	0520063155

So this is a love story supposedly, with innumerable sup-plots. Every time a new character shows up we get yet another tangent. Whats odd is that not only do the actual characters get bored with some of the sub-stories but the author apologises to the reader at least ten times about how repetitive it can...

Author	Shahan Shahnour
ISBN	0903039109

aras yayıncılık'ın geçen sene yayımladığı şaheserlerden biri. diasporada yaşayan bir ermeni'nin sessiz çığlıkları, unutmaya çalıştığı geçmişi, yaşadığı tutkulu aşk hikâyesi...
1915'te fransa'ya göç eden bir ermeni'nin hayatta kalma savaşı, zanaatiyle...

Author

Louis Aragon

Another attempt by a left-wing apostle to prove that pre-war Europe "rushed to its doom" without so much as lifting a finger in protest. The aftermath of Armageddon, of course, is the world's glorious opportunity to embrace Russia's New Theology, guaranteed to cure or kill. - The American Mercury,...

Author

Sunetra Gupta

One of the most exquisite proses that I've ever read and it is delivered via stream-of-consciousness. They say that Sunetra Gupta (born 1965) is the true heir of Virginia Woolf but for me her prose is even better because it is more contemporary; that means you don't have to imagine while reading some far...

Author	Botho Strauß
ISBN	0810113384

The writings of Botho Strauss examine the tension between the individual and society in the anonymity of the contemporary world. A theater director, playwright, and writer, Strauss broke with Berlin's leftist intellectual milieu in the late 1970s and turned to more personal topics; the result,...

Author	Cesare Pavese
ISBN	0720642825

Prima prova narrativa di Pavese, Paesi tuoi venne pubblicato nel 1941 e suscitò immediatamente scandali in chi osteggiava ed entusiasmi in chi sosteneva quel neorealismo di cui Pavese era considerato un campione. E se oggi Paesi tuoi viene ritenuto soprattutto il primo libro che sviluppa temi squisitamente...