Category: Fiction

By Honoré de Balzac

ISBN-10: 0976658313

ISBN-13: 9780976658313

When the evening got here, he went to the meeting-place, and quietly permit himself be blindfolded.

Raw as Honoré de Balzac is famed to be, this bold novella—never sooner than released as a stand-alone book—is might be the main outlandish factor he ever wrote. whereas nonetheless desirous about the depiction of the bottom of Parisian existence, as is so much of Balzac’s oeuvre, The woman with the Golden Eyes considers now not the operating lives of the terrible, however the intercourse lives of the higher crust.

In an almost boroque rendering with erotically charged information in addition to lush and lavish language, The woman with the Golden Eyes tells the tale of a wealthy and ruthless younger guy in 19th century Paris stuck up in an amorous entanglement with a mysterious good looks. His keep watch over slipping, incest, homosexuality, sexual slavery, and violence mix in what was once then, and nonetheless continues to be, a surprising and taboo-breaking work.

The artwork of The Novella Series

Too brief to be a singular, too lengthy to be a brief tale, the novella is usually unrecognized by means of lecturers and publishers. still, it's a shape liked and practiced through literature's maximum writers. within the paintings Of The Novella sequence, Melville condominium celebrates this renegade paintings shape and its practitioners with titles which are, typically, offered in publication shape for the 1st time.

By Ivan Klíma

Ivan Klima has been acclaimed by way of The Boston Globe as "a literary gem who's too little preferred within the West" and a "Czech grasp on the best of his game." In No Saints or Angels, a Washington submit most sensible e-book of 2001, Klima takes us into the guts of up to date Prague, the place the Communist People's military of the Stalinist period marches headlong into the drug tradition of the current. Kristyna is in her forties, the divorced mom of a rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter, Jana. She is starting to love a guy fifteen years her junior, yet her pleasure is clouded by means of fear -- Jana has been slicing university, and maybe utilizing heroin. in the meantime Kristyna's mom has compelled on her an enormous field of private papers left by means of her useless father, a tyrant whose Stalinist beliefs she despised. No Saints or Angels is a strong e-book within which "Mr. Klima's prepared feel of background, his deep compassion for the standard humans stuck up in its toils, and his abiding expertise of the fragility and resilience of human existence shine through.... Like Anton Chekhov, Mr. Klima is a author in a position to express us what's impressive approximately traditional life." (The Washington Times). "Ultimately, it's Prague, with its centuries of glory and distress, that offers No Saints or Angels its humane power." -- Melvin Jules Bukiet, The Washington submit ebook World" A compassionate realist, [Klima] unflinchingly provides the issues dealing with glossy Prague and civilization in most cases ... [and] fills it with mercy." -- Jennie Yabroff, San Francisco Chronicle "Stirring and valuable." -- Jules Verdone, The Hartford Courant

By Deepak Chopra

ISBN-10: 0062195891

ISBN-13: 9780062195890

In Deepak Chopra's robust, groundbreaking, and imaginitive new paintings, a distinct mixture of storytelling and educating, the recent York occasions bestselling writer explores the evolution of God. by way of taking pictures the lives of ten historic prophets, saints, mystics, and martyrs who're touched via a divine energy, Chopra unearths a riveting portrait of a continuously altering God. Our belief--and for this reason God itself--transforms with each one passing century. during this new novel, Chopra brings to existence the defining moments of our such a lot influential sages, eventually revealing common classes in regards to the precise nature of God.

activity within the previous testomony skilled whatever different from Paul within the New testomony, Socrates chased a mercurial spirit virtually unrecognizable to the unusual voice that known as to Rumi, and Shankara moved from city to city sharing the reality a couple of God that stood in marked distinction to the person who guided Anne Hutchinson--yet one sees an indisputable development. those visionaries took the human race down unknown roads, and Chopra invitations us to revisit their locations. Tearing at our hearts and uplifting our souls, God leads us to a profound and life-altering realizing in regards to the nature of trust, the ability of religion, and the spirit that is living inside of us all.

By Lynn Flewelling

ISBN-10: 0345522303

ISBN-13: 9780345522306

The Nightrunners are again during this gripping novel packed with Lynn Flewelling’s trademark motion, intrigue, and richly imagined characters.

More than the dissolute noblemen they look like, Alec and Seregil are skillful spies, devoted to serving queen and kingdom. but if they stumble throughout facts of a plot pitting Queen Phoria opposed to Princess Klia, the 2 Nightrunners will locate their loyalties torn as by no means prior to. Even on the better of occasions, the royal court docket at Rhíminee is a serpents’ nest of intrigue, yet with the struggle opposed to Plenimar going badly, treason simmers slightly below the surface.

And that’s no longer all that poses a hazard: A mysterious plague is spreading in the course of the crowded streets of the town, outstanding old and young alike. Now, as panic mounts and the physique count number rises, hidden secrets and techniques emerge. And as Seregil and Alec are approximately to profit, conspiracies and plagues have something in universal: The treatment may be as lethal because the disease.

By Ross Raisin

ISBN-10: 0141033525

ISBN-13: 9780141033525

In "God's personal Country", essentially the most celebrated debut novels of modern years, Ross Raisin tells the tale of solitary younger farmer, Sam Marsdyke, and his awesome conflict with the realm. Expelled from university and bring to an end from the city, mistrusted by means of his mom and dad and kept away from via urban incomers, Marsdyke is a loner till he meets rebellious new neighbour Josephine. yet what starts as a friendship and results in options of break out around the moors turns to anything a lot, a lot darker with each step. "Powerful, engrossing, awesome, sinister, comedian. A masterful debut". ("Observer"). "Astonishing, humorous, unsettling...An unforgettable production [whose] literary forebears comprise Huckleberry Finn, Holden Caulfield and Alex from A Clockwork Orange". ("The Times"). "Remarkable, compelling, very humorous and extremely irritating ...like no different personality in modern fiction". ("Sunday Times"). Ross Raisin was once born in 1979 in West Yorkshire. His first novel, "God's personal Country" used to be released in 2008 and used to be shortlisted for 9 literary awards together with the father or mother First booklet Award and the toilet Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2009 Ross Raisin was once named the Sunday occasions younger author of the 12 months. He lives in London.

By Aaron Dembski-Bowden

ISBN-10: 1844168859

ISBN-13: 9781844168859

  Distraught on the judgement of the Emperor, the note Bearers solid their fury and keenness onto the battlefield. the entire whereas they discover the outdated methods of Colchis, looking their very own course - person who can merely result in damnation and heresy…

By Louise Erdrich

ISBN-10: 0062065262

ISBN-13: 9780062065261

The around House gained the nationwide publication Award for fiction.

One of the main respected novelists of our time—a superb chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The around House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. it truly is an exquisitely informed tale of a boy at the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and figuring out within the wake of a bad crime that upends and perpetually transforms his family.

Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the main available novel thus far from the author of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich’s The around House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction—at as soon as a strong coming-of-age tale, a secret, and a young, relocating novel of kinfolk, historical past, and tradition.

By Mario Vargas Llosa

ISBN-10: 1429922079

ISBN-13: 9781429922074

The actual lifetime of Alejandro Mayta is an astute mental portrait of a contemporary innovative and a looking out account of an previous friend's fight to appreciate him. First released in English in 1986, the unconventional probes the lengthy and checkered background of radical politics in Latin the USA.

By Charles Bukowski

ISBN-10: 0876859813

ISBN-13: 9780876859810

Bukowski's letters in the course of the time he surrender his task on the publish place of work and utilized himself thoroughly to his writing.

By Jean-Philippe Toussaint

During this inconceivable love tale, Toussaint creates a personality who's keen about himself: how he does issues and the entire methods he may need performed them, how he thinks, why he thinks the best way that he thinks, how he could do or imagine in a different way. What occurs? he is taking riding classes, is going grocery procuring, spends unending hours with an adorable worker of the using college he attends. And notwithstanding he's aloof, even though stuck up in his personal activities and within the move of his personal thoughts—he someway emerges as unusually insightful and in addition very humorous. In Toussaint's touching novel, we come to grasp this personality in detail and but comprehend nearly not anything approximately him. those extremes, present jointly, are on the middle of Toussaint's amazing style.