No Tomorrow
8 best books like No Tomorrow (Vivant Denon): The Flight Portfolio, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, The She-Devils, Yvain, or The Knight with the Lion, Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail, A Russian Doll and Other Stories, El espíritu de la ciencia ficción, سوء تفاهم
| Author | Julie Orringer |
| ISBN | 0307959406 |
The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.
In 1940,...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
| Author | Pierre Louÿs |
| ISBN | 1596543620 |
Classic French erotica by the extremely prolific Louys. Susan Sontag, so recently deceased, described this book as one of the handful of erotic works that achieve true literary status. The She-Devils is the story of a young man who one day finds himself in the company of a family of whores - a mother and...
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0820307580 |
This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a genre, Chrétien is revealed in this work as...
| Author | Chrétien de Troyes |
| ISBN | 0820308129 |
In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval...
| Author | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| ISBN | 0811212122 |
A Russian Doll and Other Stories is the ninth collection of short fiction by one of this century's premier Argentinian writers who, with his fellow countrymen Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, helped change the world's perception of Latin American literature. Bioy Casares's narratives are...
El espíritu de la ciencia ficción
| Author | Roberto Bolaño |
| ISBN | 8420423912 |
El espíritu de la ciencia ficción transcurre en México DF durante los años setenta y narra la vida de dos escritores jóvenes que intentan vivir de la literatura. Mientras Remo Morán busca incansablemente la manera de subsistir sin abandonar su sueño, Jan Schrella vive confinado en la pequeña...
Le Malentendu = The misunderstanding, Albert Camus
The Misunderstanding, is a play written in 1943 by Albert Camus. It focuses on Camus idea of The Absurd. A man who has been living overseas for many years returns home to find his sister and widowed mother are making a living by taking in lodgers and...
