World Literature

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618155880Author Karon JFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint BookWorld Press,U.S.Publisher BookWorld Press,U.S.

Savour a rhyming celebration of one of the world's most universal foods! Readers follow ten diverse families as they cook dumplings inside their homes in preparation for a neighbourhood potluck. Dumplings are added to plates one by one, encouraging...

A disorienting, de Chirico-esque detective tale of curio shops and eerie antiquities, penned in France's postwar trauma A traveling businessman decides to tarry in an unnamed city, dons a new name and profession on a whim, and rents a room in a hotel...

Fitzgerald's beloved account of the devastating costs of the American dream gets a fittingly gorgeous update in this high-end art-book edition, elaborately decorated by the famed Italian illustrators known at the Balbusso Twins. Featuring more than fifty...

Presented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century's most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the creation of his masterpiece.One of the most significant...

Presented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author's release from forced military service. Gogolian in style and...

Desperate for reward money - and to rescue his marriage - an embattled sheriff takes incalculable risks to find a missing boy. An edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller from New Zealand's King of Crime. `Moves at a furious pace, even as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730855Author Wilfrid BadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

From Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading public intellectuals, comes a characteristic blend of forensic insight and analysis, personal journey, and a vivid respect for the natural world. A planetary fever-dream. An environmental awakening that...

The continuation of Donovan Cooks historical epic, Charlemagne's Cross SeriesA king, old and frail. A challenger filled with vengeance. A kingdom's fate at stake.Summer AD854Sven the Boar is Jarl of Ribe once more. He and Charles try to settle into...

From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, Red is My Heart is a stunning collection of words and images in collaboration with Parisian street artist, Le Sonneur, about how to mend a broken...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914287251Author Rudo D M ManyereFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdPublisher Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

From vicious rival brothers to desperate single mothers, frisky newlyweds to frigid life partners, Patrick McGinley covers all kinds of Irish (or simply human) relationship in this collection of short stories. In fourteen stories, some brief glimpses of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537529Author William FaulknerFormat HardbackPage Count 1150Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873513203Author Vilhelm MobergFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U...

Rouge Street presents three novellas by Shuang Xuetao, the lauded young Chinese writer whose frank, fantastical short fiction has already inspired comparisons to Ernest Hemingway and Haruki Murakami. Located in China's frigid northeast, Shenyang, the...

The Nile brings them life. But the Nile also takes away. 1970s. A village in North Sudan is shaken by the news that a little boy has drowned. Then the village camels die of a mysterious illness; the date tree fields catch fire and burn to the ground. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374139650Author Shimon AdafFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world."The world is this house," says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness. As...

Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day. He makes sure he has his headache pills and leaves for work as...

A book of treasures. A wealth of secrets.The Keepsake is a thrilling dual-time novel, with a fascinating, complex woman at its heart, wealth of twists, turns and secrets, and an absolute book club treat, perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, Rachel Rhys and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993185151Author Susan BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 361Imprint Susan BuchananPublisher Susan BuchananWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312382261Author Nicholas ColeridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

*****PRE-ORDER THE NEW KELLYE GARRETT NOVEL, MISSING WHITE WOMAN, COMING IN 2024***** 'Stand-out' Caz Frear 'Captivating' Samantha Downing 'Razor-sharp' Laura Lippman 'Riveting' Liv Constantine 'Sharp and sassy' Heat**Winner of a Lefty Award for Best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641294355Author Colin CotterillFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784991276811Author Baptiste Pinson WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Little Conqueror PressPublisher Little Conqueror PressWeight(grams) 440g

Discover James Joyce's impressionistic portrait of a young man finding his artistic voice in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, reissued to coincide with 100 years since the first publication of his epic masterpiece, Ulysses EDITED BY HANS WALTER...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739245214Author Claire GilliesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Green Isle PublishingPublisher Green Isle PublishingWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a hilarious novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really are'This is a fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912714049Author Jane AustenFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

Madame tells the story of a self-absorbed Polish teenager as he pursues intellectual maturity, and the woman of his dreams, his French teacher 'Madame', in the communist-dominated Warsaw of the early 1970s.Libera paces his exuberant young hero's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835263358Author Meeti Shroff-ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Joffe Books LtdPublisher Joffe Books LtdWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee...

A ground-breaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and poet. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his...

Author of International Booker Finalist Not a RiverTwo young men, Pajaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just after the two main characters have faced off in a knife fight: the...

Sumo offers a unique behind-the-scenes view into the secret and fascinating world of sumo, a living breathing showcase of ancient Japan. Sumo is one of the oldest sports in the world, stretching back over 2,000 years. Within the Japanese...

'A master class in the art of storytelling' ObserverThis short story collection demonstrates the enormous range of Tremain's talent and imagination. The teasing and brilliant title story, Evangelista's Fan, is set in a disturbing dreamlike version of...

'Real escapism...for me the book was an absolute win' A gorgeous Greek island A stranger in a veil And a fatal fall from the cliffs... Miss Atalanta Ashford is sightseeing near...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376769Author Ferit EdguFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two...