World Literature

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537388Author Alejo CarpentierFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, Antonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, and family tragedy, she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm...

A disillusioned Parisian writer finds inspiration in the ordinary lives of his neighbours, the Martins. 'A wonderful surprise' L'Express Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary? This is the question a...

This unsettling novel inspired Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed film "The Skin I Live In."* * *Mygale [MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . .A highly successful plastic surgeon pursues and captures the man who raped his daughter. He is...

Featuring short stories from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston and more Edited and Introduced by David M. Earle Vivacious, charming, irreverent: a flapper is a girl who knows how to have a roaring good time. In...

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...

T.S. Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. His brother has gone, his sister seems normal...

'An incredible debut' MEL SHERRATTShe is wanted by the FBI.She is a stone-cold killer.She remembers nothing.She is told her name is Reeta Doe, and that she's been in an accident. That she's in Florida. That the FBI have been following her since...

For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former star Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and...

Out for Air is the exhilarating first collection by former professional skateboarder Olly Todd. Infused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where 'the bridges are endless...

Tense, subtly disturbing literary horror from a prize-winning Japanese writer A young girl loses her mother, and her father blindly invites his secret lover into the family home to care for her. As she obsessively tries to curate a pristine life, this...

Yoruba Proverbs is the most comprehensive collection to date of more than five thousand Yoruban proverbs that showcase Yoruba oral tradition. Following Oyekan Owomoyela's introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376332Author Vladimir SorokinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957756042Author Saadat Hasan MantoFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Ghazal Sara Dot OrgPublisher Ghazal Sara Dot OrgWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641294669Author Siddhartha DebFormat HardbackPage Count 458Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

A pregnant Sam Shephard investigates the murder of an expectant mother in Dunedin, as it becomes clear that the killer is ready to strike again ... Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a shocking, twisty new Sam Shephard thriller.....

Anne's diagnosis of terminal cancer shines a spotlight onto fractured relationships with her daughter and granddaughter, with surprising, heartwarming results. A moving, elegant and warmly funny novel by the Norwegian Anne Tyler. 'Helga Flatland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376868Author Maxim OsipovFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

A fresh new translation of Collodi's cherished classic of childhood adventureCarved from a piece of magical wood by the old carpenter Geppetto, the puppet Pinocchio comes to life and is almost immediately cast into a series of extraordinary...

Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the Ivo Andric Grand Prize for best novel of 2022From the INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR Eugene Vodolazkin - winner of the BIG BOOK AWARD, the LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD, and the READ RUSSIA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421748Author Zakes MdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm...

'Japrisot is the most welcome talent since the early Simenons' New York Times Car mechanic Fiorimond is irresistibly drawn to beautiful, provocative Elle, a recent arrival in his sleepy Provence village. Their relationship develops quickly,...

The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find the fame and fortune he's convinced awaits in the wild world of the...

'Extremely intriguing with intricate twists and turns' Frederick ForsythWhen maverick police sergeant Jolly Macken is banished to the sleepy 1950s Irish border village of Blackwatertown, he vows to find the killer of his brother - even if the murderer is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250826589Author Jonathan FranzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 137g

The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these...

A mother and son inhabit an isolated and increasingly dangerous private world.The third and final installment of Ariana Harwicz's "Involuntary Trilogy" finds us on familiar, disquieting ground. Under the spell of a mother's madness, the French...

In Stories with Pictures, Antonio Tabucchi responds to photographs, drawings, and paintings from his dual homelands of Italy and Portugal, among other European countries. The stories in this collection spring forth from the shadows of Tabucchi's...

Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell's sense of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits to his grandparents' small farm in the hills. As an adult he moves to an English city where he...

From the foggy back streets of London to the heat and dust of Agra, this second novel of the sleuthing duo focuses on stolen Indian treasure, presents the darker side of Sherlock Holmes, and introduces the future Mrs Watson.About the AuthorArthur Conan...

In her preface to Robert Walser's "Selected Stories", Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the...

Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175828Author Intizar HusainFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

When an affair ends badly and her career takes a nosedive, Erin returns to spend a holiday weekend at the family farm with her chronically ill mother, and her aunt-turned-carer. She learns shortly before her arrival that her mother has decided to take...

Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture? As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a...

A body in a pool. A rifle. And a scream that carries across the valley. But is that the end, or just the beginning? It's been a hard couple of years, but things finally seem to be looking up for Danielle. Her boyfriend Matteo has inherited a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043481Author Philip DallingFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861542Author Philippe DelermFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere explores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment. A pregnant mother's plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns the consequences of an almost-missed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805063400Author John NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...