After his grandfather dies, a young programmer must go back to Thebes, a town so isolated that the residents have their own language, and soon begins a romance with an old flame and reflects on other
France's greatest architect, Baron Georges-EugFne Haussman, stands at the center of this unique novel about the reconstruction of Paris during the nineteenth century. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Frank, a young artist, arrives in the city hoping to unravel the mystery of his parents' disappearance. He begins working as a washer of robes at a hotel for itinerant judges. There he meets and falls
At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch—except that it's a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune,
