“ In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. ” ― Marianne Williamson
Called to the hospital when his fifteen-year-old daughter, Angela, is injured in a potentially fatal accident, a prominent surgeon sits and waits, silently confessing the affair he had the year Angela was born. As Timoteo’s tale begins, he’s driving t
Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen's dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of Kabul unveiled. Atiq
From the prize-winning Chilean novelist Antonio Skármeta, author of Il Postino, comes this soulful novella about a son and his estranged fatherJacques is a schoolteacher in a small Chilean village, and a French translator for the local paper. He owes his
This is ostensibly a detective story, about a crime that is committed in 1917, and solved 20 years later. The location is a small town in Northern France, near V., in the dead of the freezing winter. The war is still being fought in the trenches, within s
Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in the detention centre are unsure how to help the old man;
Vaders aftershave, moeders zonnebrand, het zijdeachtige haar van zijn eerste geliefde, Gauloises en Gitanes, kaneel voor op de taart en in de glühwein, kooltjes om je warm te houden, inktpotten op school, hooi op de velden, de trui van een oom... In 63 t
De verteller heeft zojuist zijn geliefde verloren. De buitenwereld vervult hem met walging en razernij en alles doet hem pijn. In het ziekenhuis waar hij werkt, brengt hij de dag door met een collega wiens aanwezigheid hij nauwelijks kan verdragen, om maa
De dood van zijn moeder voert een jonge dertiger terug naar zijn door verval bedreigde Noord-Franse geboorteplaats, die hij, puber nog, kwaad heeft verlaten, omdat zijn moeder hem zou hebben voorgelogen over de identiteit van zijn vader.
A wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing the darkly comic nature of the human condition. The Investigator is a man quite like any other. He is balding, of medium build, dresses conservatively—in short, he is unremarkable in every
