My Phantoms - Prijzen

The Legend Of The Holy Drinker

This novella, one of the most haunting things that Joseph Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died. Like Andreas, the hero of the story, Roth drank himself to death in Paris...

Mating

The first major novel by the author of the critically-acclaimed short story collection Whites. A comedy of manners on the grandest scale, the story revolves around two Americans on the loose (one of t...

My Phantoms

Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice-divorced mother-of-two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (...

Hotel Years

The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the...

Uncommon Type

Read by two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives...

Söhne der Rosen

Julian Grifter wird direkt nach seinem Abschluss an der Highschool durch die Versetzung seines Vaters dazu gezwungen, seine Heimat in Nampa, Idaho zu verlassen und mit seinen Eltern nach Cape Orchid,...

An Experiment in Love

A New York Times Notable BookA coming-of-age story and a piercing look at the social pretensions and youthful betrayals of a Catholic girlhood.

The Pillow Book

Hotel Years

The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the...

The Written World

From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. This is the true story of literature -- of how great texts and technologies hav...

Constructing a Nervous System

The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art.

Heavens - Sandra Newman

The year's most mind-expanding love story.