The Butcher Boy

Author	Steve Toltz
ISBN	0385521723

An irreverent comic adventure, spanning three continents, about a father and son against each other and against the world.

For most of his life, Jasper Dean couldn’t decide whether to pity, hate, love, or murder his certifiably paranoid father, Martin, a man who overanalyzed anything...

Author	Roddy Doyle
ISBN	2264022442

I hate to be facetious about this, but it’s true. I love to read good books as much as I love to discover which ones are actual impostors—that is, which ones are overrated past the norm, books like “On the Road,” “Catcher in the Rye,” or anything by Ayn Rand. Yuck. Well, this one won the Booker,...

Author	John McGahern
ISBN	0571195261

Did you read any great novels recently about a thoroughly decent man? A guy who wasn’t violent and treated everyone with humanity and tried to look on the bright side? No, me neither. That is why Ulysses is so great. Leopold Bloom is that guy, always trying the cheer up his fellow struggler, always looking...

Author	Roddy Doyle
ISBN	0749391685

I was going to attempt to write this review in the working class Dublin slang that Roddy Doyle’s colourful characters use, but, ya know, Jaysis, I’d come o’ looking like a fuckin’ eejit.

I’m one of the few people on the planet who’s never seen the Alan Parker movie, and when I was in...

Author	Mick Jackson
ISBN	0571225497

From the pen of Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and Five Boys, come these ten acclaimed tales. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, the stories are nevertheless rooted in the realistic and all too recognisable world of retirement,...

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رضا قاسمی

همنوایی شبانهٔ ارکستر چوب‌ها، رمانی از رضا قاسمی نخستین بار نشر کتاب آن را در سال ۱۹۹۱ در آمریکا منتشر کرد، در ایران نیز اجازهٔ انتشار یافت و برنده بهترین...

Author	Jean Teulé
ISBN	1906040095

Has your life been a failure? Let's make your death a success With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. And business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family for generations, the shop offers an amazing...

Author	Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
ISBN	9643418281

عشق لرزه داستان عشقی است که با غرور لایه های احساسش میلرزد و این لرزش ستون حیاتی اش را به لرزه در آورده و باعث فروپاشی اش میشود....دیانا دختری موفق در عرصه سیاست...