Sunstone/Piedra De Sol

Author	Pablo Neruda
ISBN	0143039962

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia,...

Author	Juan Rulfo
ISBN	9500718030

An outstanding collection of snippets, ever-literary and uniquely blissfully Mexican. These stories are timeless. And it is precisely that quality, that of timelessness, which best describes the setting which pervades throughout these incendiary vignettes. The best are short enough to be parables--"We're...

Author	Pablo Neruda
ISBN	1556591608

A best-selling volume of Pablo Neruda's poetry in an English-Spanish edition.

Pablo Neruda is one of the world's most popular and famous poets, and in The Book of Questions, Neruda refuses to be corralled by the rational mind. Composed of 316 unanswerable questions, these poems integrate...

Author

Anton Chekhov

Hm... one can't know everything, of course... However capacious your brain is, it won't accommodate everything.
This collection includes three short stories.
A nervous breakdown: 4 stars. The character's internal conflict with prostitution was unexpected. An interesting debate...

Author	Jonathan Coe
ISBN	0375713956

Coe writes about frustration - professional, creative, and sexual; frustrations in relationships and a loss of faith amidst the crumbling of personal verities. It can be a little depressing, but it's also cathartic and very, very compelling, with a subtle humor rooted in a very dark sense of irony....