Professor Martens' Departure

Author	Cesare Pavese
ISBN	8806314017

"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come matte, e tutto era bello, specialmente di notte, che tornando stanche morte speravano ancora che succedesse qualcosa, che scoppiasse un incendio, che in casa nascesse un bambino, o magari venisse giorno...

Author	Frank Schätzing
ISBN	0060813261

For more than two years, one book has taken over Germany's hardcover and paperback bestseller lists, reaching number one in Der Spiegel and setting off a frenzy in bookstores: The Swarm.

Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf...

Author

Mario Vargas Llosa

Los Jefes y Los cachorros sirvieron como antecedente, para la construcción de las obras de Vargas Llosa. Muchos de los elementos técnicos y narrativos que caracterizan la prosa del gran escritor peruano ya aparecen en estas primeras piezas breves: el espacio exterior, por ejemplo, que tiende a...

Author

Armistead Maupin

A surreal sequel to the first volume of the series, More Tales of the City heightens the stakes of the original: mystery, romance, and drama now feature even more prominently in the intertwining storylines of the residents of 28 Barbary Lane. Maupin established his characters' personalities and their...

Author	Zhang Xianliang
ISBN	0393025861

Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the position of intellectuals....

Author

J.M. Coetzee

With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians , J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe—and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself

In 1720 the eminent man of letters...

Author	H.D.F. Kitto
ISBN	0140135219

The Greeks, Humphrey Davy Findley ‎Kitto
The Greeks is a 1951 non-fiction book on classical Greece by University of Bristol professor and translator H. D. F. Kitto. The Greeks serves as an introduction to the whole range of life in ancient Greece and established Kitto as one of the foremost Grecian...

Author	John Boardman
ISBN	0500202923

A fairly interesting book about the art of ancient Greece. It's a quick read, but the history isn't as exciting as the pictures and captions are. There are some amazing photographs in this book. I didn't care much about the pottery, but the statues and the architecture are amazing. Also, this is the first...

Author	Salvatore Settis
ISBN	8806218263

In tre modi muoiono le città: quando le distrugge un nemico spietato, quando un popolo straniero vi si insedia con la forza, o quando perdono la memoria di sé. Venezia può morire se perde la memoria, se non sapremo intenderne lo spirito e ricostruirne il destino. Fragile, antica, unica per il suo rapporto...

Author	Luis Martín-Santos
ISBN	8432203777

La primera edición de Tiempo de silencio apareció en Biblioteca Formentor, Seix Barral, en 1961 y alcanzó casi inmediatamente una extraordinaria resonancia crítica. Ha sido traducido al ingles, al francés, al italiano, al alemán, al holandés, al portugués, al sueco, al checo, al rumano,...

Author	Amos Oz
ISBN	0679721851

Like much of Amos Oz's work, Black Box is not about the story. Indeed, the book is built around the premise that unresolved childhood trauma brings disaster to all the people around when the child grows up, but in truth the book is all about people: dysfunctional people who hit, scream, beg, and blackmail,...