After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. Soon interested parties come calling with increasingly...
From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives artist, son, loner as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel...
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "An important and valuable study that will define research agendas for years to come. It is also hugely fun to read."--Boston Globe Why do people...
Like the previous five bestselling novels in the Dexter series, "Double Dexter" showcases the witty, macabre originality that has propelled Lindsay to international success.
Two brothers and a friend find $4 million in the cockpit of a downed plane. The pilot is dead. No one is looking for the money. To keep it, all they have to do is wait. It all sounded so simple.
A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with loss--and what he is willing to risk to rediscover love. Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone,...
"Avec le Chant général, j'ai travaillé sur le terrain de la chronique et du mémorial, un terrain qui, les premiers temps, me parut rocailleux et inhospitalier. Mais soudain je découvris...
En 2009, le lieutenant Romain Roller rentre d'Afghanistan apr?s avoir eu une liaison passionnée avec la journaliste et romanci?re Marion Decker. Souffrant d'un syndrome post-traumatique,...
By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in flux,...
"If you meet Ruth or Edek or Bronia, you must tell them I'm going to Switzerland to find their mother. Tell them to follow as soon as they can" Having lost their parents in the chaos of...
Inspector Harry Hole pursues an assassin bent on revenge in this installment of Jo Nesb 's New York Times bestselling series. Shots ring out at a Salvation Army Christmas concert in Oslo,...
Botticelli, poète et orfèvre de Vénus: c'est ainsi que nous regardons encore, et à juste titre, le tableau si célèbre que Laurent de Médicis commanda au peintre vers 1484, La Naissance de...
The death song of the white buffalo...a snowfall of herons alighting on a New York street...A mystic who makes stones rise from the desert floor...the startling disappearance of a...
'Utterly compelling' Guardian Life...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead. So begins a love letter...
Que peut notre culture face aux assauts du monde actuel? Telle est la question que se pose l'auteur de Soie et de Novecento devant l'effacement progressif d'une culture de type...
The extraordinary final volume of 'the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian)The End is the sixth and final book in the monumental My Struggle cycle, which depicts...
Already an international bestseller, "Embers"--first published in Budapest in 1942--finds an aristocrat and his friend fighting a duel of words over the now-dead chatelaine of the castle. A...
Ils sont là, parmi nous, jamais où tu regardes, à circuler dans les angles morts de la vision humaine. On les appelle les furtifs. Des fantômes? Plutôt l'exact inverse: des êtres de chair et de...
Im Halbfinale der Quali zum Frühjahrsturnier picken sich die Aoba-Johsai und die Karasuno die Augen aus. Als die Aoba-Johsai auch den zweiten Satz zu gewinnen droht, muss ein Joker her! Also wird...
The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and...
In her latest forays into the American scene, the author of Miami, Democracy, and Salvador covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles and from a TV producer's mansion to the racial...