Distraught over the sudden disappearance of his wife, Zack tries to drown his grief in Tijuana, then returns to the U.S. with a stolen stash of marijuana. Using this as an impetus to change his life,
In the midst of the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s, Dubravka Ugresic—winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature—was invited to Middletown, Connecticut as a guest lecturer. A worl
Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear.
While studying a seventeenth-century diary, the protagonist of Little Dark Room uncovers information about the first documented professional female artist. This discovery promises to change her academ
"Smart, impish, and spare, Per Aage Brandt finds the physical in the metaphysical, and the fizz in the physiological."Joanna TrzeciakA cognitive scientist by trade, Per Aage Brandt's poems resem
By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man—the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band—composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor. Alte
Nobody knows exactly what happened in the small town of Klausen, or rather, everyone knows: a bomb went off, or someone was shooting at the town; it all stems from a fight over measuring noise polluti
French intelligence officer Servain Mirkovic is traveling from Milan to Rome where he plans to meet with Vatican representatives to sell information on a war torn region that has become Mirkovik's spe
"Those of you who stay with Blas de Roblès's ultimately quite satisfying novel will find yourselves with a new European literary star to steer by."?Alan Cheuse, NPRA stolen diamond and three right fee
