The Tartar Steppe
This novel, one of the masterpieces of Dino Buzzati and of 20th century Italian literature, tells the story of Giovanni Drogo. The protagonist is introduced to us as newly assigned to the Bastiani Fortress...
Literature - Psychological
Mystery, Inc
A curious story with a plot of crime and horror. The action takes place in a bookstore in a small town in New Hampshire (United States). The narrator is a bookseller who wants to buy the legendary bookstore...
Midnight Cowboy
The protagonist, Joe Buck, is a naïve young Texan who leaves his job as a dishwasher in Houston to pursue an improbable dream: becoming a gigolo for wealthy women in New York. With his cowboy outfit and a...
The death of the heart
Portia, a teenager, has been taken in by the Quaynes after her mother’s death, but she does not get along with them, and
...Spellbinder
The novel delves into the world of televangelists and the business of religion. The protagonist, known simply as The Preacher, begins his spiritual journey in Vietnam, with ideals of peace and love. But...
A Convenient Fiction
After the death of her father, Laura Hayes takes charge of her family, but the family business is managed by a lawyer who is discovered to have embezzled the assets he was supposed to administer. Laura’s...
Windflower
We encounter a Girón whose years “are no longer for joking with the other life,” as Cervantes said, and perhaps for this reason he comes across as quite gentle in his observations, without harsh value...
Harvest
Everyone has left. Panturle is left alone in this village in Upper Provence, swept by the wind, in the midst of a harsh and wild nature. Through the grace of a simple woman, life will be reborn.
Jean...
Here in the Real World
It is a deeply moving, subtly philosophical, and luminous young adult novel that celebrates authenticity, diversity, and imagination in a world that often demands uniformity. It tells the story of a boy who...
The Harp in the South
The Harp in the South is the first novel by New Zealand-born Ruth Park. Published in 1948, it portrays the life of a Catholic Irish-Australian family living in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Surry Hills....