Abba Abba is about two poets who may or may not have met in Rome in 1820-1821. One was John Keats, who was dying in a house on the Spanish Steps. The other was Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli a great poet, though little known outside Rome. The first...
A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poignant challenges of a vulnerable, imaginative father as he lives his everyday American existence.
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Aziz is a kind-hearted zookeeper with a sense of humor, living a simple life in Algeria. But his contented existence is shattered by the abduction of his thirteen-year-old daughter. Aziz, his wife, his stepfather-in-law, and his mother-in-law are...
"Wenn du dich als Achtjähriger, als Dreizehnjähriger, als Sechzehnjähriger denkst, erkennst du dich in ihnen wieder?"
"Ja. Und sehr gerne dazu."
"Gibt es einen Lebensabschnitt, in dem du dir fremd vorkommst?"
"Zwischen fünfundzwanzig...
Set at a boardinghouse in rural New Jersey in the summer of 1939, this novel revolves around four people who experience the comedies, torments and rare pleasures of family, romance and sex while on vacation from Brooklyn and the Depression. Billy...
In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and...
"Morocco's greatest living author." — The Guardian UK
"A writer of social and moral acuteness." — Los Angeles Times
"A writer of much originality." — The Chicago Tribune
Lalla Fatma believes she is in Fez in 1944—where she...
Svevo Romano is every woman's dream turned nightmare, living the life of excess in Rome. He may be handsome, rich and successful, but he is also a ruthless businessman, workaholic and playboy. At the back of his mind he has a nagging feeling that...