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Norah and Magdalen, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Vanstone, find themselves disinhertired and stigmatized after the sudden death of their parents, when they discover that they were born out of wedlok. Their...
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The Death of Jesus
Coetzee finishes with this third story of the boy David after his extensive parable of the two previous installments: “The Childhood of Jesus” (2013), and “The Schooldays of Jesus (2017). All the...
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon Esq
Barry Lyndon is a story of some fictitious memories and, at the same time, a picaresque and satiric novel based on history. It narrates the rise and fall of the overly ambitious Redmond Barry, a young...
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime
During the 19th century, detective women made their way as protagonists or authors of detective novels. In the stories that are included in this volume, it seems that the authors attribute to women the...
The Tiger and the Acrobat
The Tiger and the Acrobat tells the life of a Siberian tigress from her birth, the loss of her mother, her friendship with a shaman and a boy, up to its death. It is an allegorical story about how the soul...
The House of the Mosque
The novel recounts how the life of a prominent family in an Iranian city named Senejan, the religious bastion of the country, intertwines with the history of Iran - from the permissive moral and religious...
Le premier miracle
This novel narrates the history of intellectuals who, over the years, have tried to control nuclear energy. A chain of events leads to the conclusion that the following attempts have occurred: beginning...
The Friend
It is not a novel, but rather a diary and a small literary game. Everything parts from a real event. A friend of the writer, like her a teacher of literature and writer of some success, commits suicide....
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Janina Duszejko is an older woman, who lives in a hamlet near the Polish border with the Czech Republic, of three fixed inhabitants and a handful of summer visitors. She was a civil engineer, but had to...
Future Crimes
In-depth and thorough study of the inconveniences caused by the exponential growth of computer technology applied to telecommunications. The author exposes, with great ease and abundance of anecdotes, the...