LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS ''A sprawling kaleidescopic fable'' Guardian, Books of the ...
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the 20th century''s greatest writers. More than half of Vonnegut''s output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organised thematically - War, Women, Science, Romance, Work Ethic ...
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing ...
''He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.'' A deliberately severed finger, a junky''s Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamous ...
Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'' In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of ...
Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself in blood, pillage and lust'' Thomas Mann A story of war in all its absurdity and horror, this incomparable novel describes the ...
The Classic Analysis of Statesmanship and Power After a lifetime of winning and losing at the game of politics, Florentine nobleman Machiavelli set down its ageless rules and moves in this highly readable treatise. Witty, informative, and devilishly shrewd, it has long been required reading for everyone ...
