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An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' exciting novel, The Lime Twig, which tells of an ingenious plot to steal and race a horse under a false name.An English...
"Rich, evocative, highly original piece of fiction. It gilds contemporary American literature with real, not synthetic, gold."-Anthony Burgess"Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy?...
After years of underground existence, this brilliant novel is emerging as a classic of visionary writing and still remains Hawkes's only work devoted solely to American life.The Beetle Leg, John Hawkes's second...
Sartre's greatest novel - and existentialism's key text - now introduced by James Wood.
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary...
Cocteau's novel Les Enfants Terribles, which was first published in 1929, holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction.Written in a French style that long defied successful translation—Cocteau...
A witty yet gripping pastiche of murder mysteries set in an Argentine seaside resort, peppered with literary allusions
In seaside Bosque de Mar, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by double misfortune: the...
Drury is a truly great writer.”Esquire
A beguiling novel . . . perceptive and captivating.”The New York Times
Startling and utterly original.”Newsday
In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once...
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries...
Dale M. Kushner's novel The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and her overwhelming...
When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the '70s, he was hailed as a brilliant visionary” (John Gardner). In Driftless, his most accomplished work yet” (Joseph Kanon), Rhodes made...
My name is Ixca Cienfuegos. I was born and I live in Mexico City. Which is not so grave: in Mexico City there is never tragedy but only outrage. Thus begins Carlos Fuentes's first novel, unfolding a...
Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the...
In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American...
The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated...
Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the...
On New Year's Eve in 1969, a novelist in his forties meets the beautiful movie actress Diana Soren at a party and is fascinated by her oddly elusive charm. But his infatuation turns into doomed pursuit as the...
As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the...
This inspired novel is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel....
First published in 1968, Carlos Fuentes's controversial novel A Change of Skin tells the story of four persons who drive from Mexico City to Veracruz one Palm Sunday. The Driver of the car is Franz, an ex-Nazi,...
This eBook edition includes only the English translation by Lysander Kemp. The Spanish text is not included.
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs....