He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem--since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper with a ten-year-old son who is hired to care for him.
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses...Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those who remember live in fear of the Memory Police.
La mayor equivocación de Sara fue casarse con Leo, un mafioso que huye a Nueva York y la arrastra como una mercancía más de las que lleva en el Andrea Doria. Allí conocerá a Paul Slater, que marcará un antes y un después en su vida.
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Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village.
This is Mishima's novel about the pressure of living an idealised life. It tells a fictionalised account of real events - the lonely acolyte who destroyed a famous Kyoto temple.
Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter, in her first year of separation from her husband.
A l'instant ou il sortait de ma voiture, le vieil autostoppeur que j'avais embarqué a la sortie de Mâcon-Nord se retourna et dit : - Ou allez-vous ? - Je n'sais pas. - Comment saurez-vous que vous etes arrivé ? Y. S.
This electrifying new collection showcases its author as a true literary powerhouse, demonstrating once again her credentials as an essential voice of her generation.
Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives.
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kippses - and a clutch of doomed affairs.
De Engelsman Howard Belsey is hoogleraar aan een Amerikaanse universiteit. Nadat Howard een desastreuze affaire heeft gehad met een collega, vertrekt zijn oudste zoon Jerome naar Engeland en verloochent zijn vader door te gaan werken voor diens...
Komisch, rasant, mit liebenswerten und unvergesslichen Charakteren erzählt Zadie Smiths dritter Roman von zwei mehr als turbulenten Familien zwischen England und Amerika, schwarz und weiß, Hässlichkeit und Schönheit, Liberalismus und Konservativismus.
Hemda Horowich vit sans doute ses derniers jours, mais l’image de ce lac, pres du kibboutz ou elle est née, s’impose encore avec force a sa conscience. Les souvenirs plus douloureux de sa longue vie se glissent eux aussi dans sa mémoire, ...