The Citadel
A young doctor begins his first practice in a small South Wales mining village, all idealistic and keen to improve the lives of his patients. Yet he soon comes to realise that many expect medicines when...
Fiction
Eleven
Ricardo Piglia used to say that the key to the effectiveness of a short story lies in the meeting point of two narratives: one that is told to us and another that is left to our intuition. This may be an...
A Pale view of hills
Etsuko's eldest daughter commits suicide, which leads her to remember a woman she met shortly after the war—this woman also has a young daughter, traumatized by a death she witnessed: that of a baby drowned...
Daniel Deronda
It is a long, profound novel of great erudition, mainly set in London. The author reflects on the psychology and thoughts of each character, contrasts interlocutors while criticizing hypocrisy in general,...
A Town like Alice
When Joan Paget learns that she is the sole heir to Douglas Macfadden's fortune, she immediately expresses her desire to have a well dug in a small village in Malaysia. To Strachan, the lawyer in charge of...
The Second Chance Convenience Store
New novel by the Korean author, a continuation of the successful The Amazing Mrs. Yeom's Shop, featuring new characters who are connected to some of the protagonists from the previous novel and share the...
The railway children
A delightful novel in which some autobiographical traits can be sensed. Roberta (Bobbie), 12 years old, and her younger siblings Peter and Phyllis are forced to move with their mother near London. Their...
Dancing in the Dark
It is a long novel with a romantic character. The story unfolds in two time periods: one around World War II and the other in the present day, with Liverpool as the setting in both cases.
After the...
Fly Away Peter
For three very different people brought together by their love of birds, life in Queensland in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises, and kingfishers. In another hemisphere,...
Deliverance
James Dickey was born in Atlanta in 1923 and served in World War II, during which he completed more than fifty combat flights. He passed away in 1997 in Columbia. Deliverance is his first novel, later...