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Alessandro Baricco
The Young Bride
The Young Bride is a scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family. -
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Alina Bronsky
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
Rosa is not cut out for motherhood, at least not of the functional kind. She is an outrageously nasty piece of work: overbearing, iron-willed and diabolical. Among the casualties is her daughter, Sulfia, who endures the worst of Rosa's machinations. When Sulfia brings into the world an exceptional... -
Alina Bronsky
Baba Dunja's Last Love
With her trade-mark wry humour Bronsky tells the story of a community that shouldn’t exist, and of a very unusual woman who late in life finds her own version of paradise. -
Alina Bronsky
Baba Dunja's Last Love
With her trade-mark wry humour Bronsky tells the story of a community that shouldn’t exist, and of a very unusual woman who late in life finds her own version of paradise. -
Alina Bronsky
Broken Glass Park
17-year-old Sascha Naimann lives in Berlin's Russian ghetto with her two younger siblings and, until recently, her mother. She is precocious, independent, street-wise, and, since her stepfather murdered her mother several months ago, an orphan. Unlike most of her companions, she doesn't dream of... -
Alina Bronsky
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
Rosa Achmetowna is the outrageously mischievous narrator of this rollicking family saga from the author of Broken Glass Park. When Rosa discovers that her seventeen- year-old daughter, “stupid Sulfia,” is pregnant by an unknown man she does everything to thwart the pregnancy, employing... -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Solea
“Izzo digs deep into what makes men weep.” — Time Out New York The third and final installment in the remarkable Marseilles Trilogy ( Total Chaos, Chourmo), Solea continues Jean-Claude Izzo’s distinctive brand of vibrant crime writing, skillfully evoking a time and place... -
Maurizio de Giovanni
The Bastards of Pizzofalcone
A new series of hardboiled crime fiction set in contemporary Naples by the author of the internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series.