The sand-reckoner
The present novel is intended to be a biography of the great geometrician and exceptional inventor Archimedes. The novel begins with the return to Syracuse (his birthplace), from Alexandria, at the request...
The present novel is intended to be a biography of the great geometrician and exceptional inventor Archimedes. The novel begins with the return to Syracuse (his birthplace), from Alexandria, at the request...
Romek Waisman, a Polish Jew, was only nine years old when Germany invaded Poland; his father tried to save him but he and other children ended up in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The camp was liberated...
The gripping true story of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime in the early 1980s, and how she defied state censorship through the rebellion of reading. In comic strip form,...
Novel set in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, in 1944. The author imagines that four women are imprisoned there: Carla, Mina, Rose and the youngest, 14 years old, called Ella, who is the...
Humorous novel of great beauty, which reflects the rural Northern Irish society through the lives of two rural doctors, an example of virtue and common sense. The plot is composed of small stories, more or...
Rafael, Gardo, Rata, are three boys who live in a huge landfill in a third world country. They make a living scavenging through the rubble looking for something they can sell. It is a short and desperate...
Romantic novel, continuation of The Dangerous Legacy by the same author. The first novel was narrated from Lucy's point of view, while this time, the story focuses on the life of her brother Nick, who is a...
Romantic novel set in England. The aristocratic and working class environment marks the background ideology. The action is based on love affairs and shady family business: the protagonist, Lucy, along with...
Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon “Nap” Dumas hasn't been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo’s girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks—and...
In addition to Grisham's typical legal thriller, the book was also characterised as "a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga, a coming-of-age story," "a period piece", and a war novel. Sexual...