In 2009, Patrick Leigh Fermor's Spanish-language translator, Dolores Payás, visited the writer in his Greek home for the first time. By this time he was well advanced in years. Even so he received her
In 2009 Dolores Payas, Spanish translator of several of Patrick Leigh Fermor's books, visited her subject in his house in Greece for the first time. Out of this first encounter emerged a friendship th
On the run and holed up in a luxurious mansion in Buenos Aires, Jose Maria is the silent witness of the cruelty and humiliation suffered by his lover. Scenes of violence and rape conspire to turn his
When Jose Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he has certainly succeeded. Recording the events and observ
Lisbon has been an extraordinary city for well over a thousand years, rendering it a place of great historical and contemporary interest. The combination of cultural influences in Lisbon -- Arabian, A
Jane Brettle captures the diversity of Scotland's Police forces in this group of work by highlighting the differences in geography, population density and community across the country and the challeng
"New York Times BestsellerWorldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a m
New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. An insta
It's 1987. Carlo and Filippo break out of prison in a garbage truck and head their separate ways. Carlo soon dies in a shoot-out while Filippo assumes a new identity, working as a security guard in Pa
A call girl whose black book lists her elite international clients is found murdered in an underground garage; a plane bound for Iran laden with illegal arms disappears from the skies over Turkey, an
Luisa, a renowned mystery writer, is beginning her new novel, a story of psychological suspense that centers on the suspicious death of a child at an elite private day school. The author has a close
When a cathode ray tube factory?in a small French town?is hit first by a strike and then by a suspicious fire, the battle for the takeover of the plant’s beleaguered parent company heats up. The Lorra
A group of school friends from the heady days?of 1968 France take center stage in this racy account of horse racing, public corruption, and criminal intent. Agathe Renourd and her protege Nicolas Berg
A group of school friends from the heyday of 1968 France take center stage in this racy account of horse racing, public corruption, and criminal intent. Agathe Renourd and her protege, Nicolas Berger,
A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are huma
A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life,
Beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, The Notebook evokes life in Saramago’s beloved Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and offers meditations on the author's favorite w
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Amanda Hopkinson, Daniel Borzutzky, and Cole Heinowitz. FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD is a carefully selected collection of poems by Mexican poet Luis
Rapid Manufacturing is a new area of manufacturing developed from a family of technologies known as Rapid Prototyping. These processes have already had the effect of both improving products and reduci
