Russell Hoban

"Żółwi dziennik", opublikowany w Londynie w 1975 roku (w 1985 roku powieść sfilmował John Irving według scenariusza Harolda Pintera, w rolach głównych wystąpili Glenda Jackson i Ben Kingsley) to historia dwojga zupełnie przeciętnych z pozoru ludzi. Naera H., czterdziestokilkuletnia autorka książek dla dzieci, samotna i zgorzkniała oraz William H.,...

Maks, londyński pisarz, dostaje płytę z nagraniem hinduskiej ragi. W dziwnej muzyce zaklęty jest tajemniczy wschodni demon Apasmara. Ducha nasyła na Maksa Lola: dziewczyna, którą kochał, lecz zdradził, więc od niego odeszła. To jej słodka zemsta: słuchając płyty, Maks zapomni wszystkie miłe, wspólne chwile. Jednak Lola nie wie, że skruszony Maks...

Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark's life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an eighteenth-century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but strangely, on a visit to the museum, he encountered a woman called Sarah Varley, who was clearly compelled by...

The first time Peter Diggs saw Amaryllis she was at a bus stop where the street sign said "e;Balsamic"e; although there was nothing vinegary about the place. The bus was unthinkably tall, made of yellow, orange and pink rice paper. That was a dream, but this romance soon intersects with reality....

'This is it ... this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart, but the two discovered an uncanny convergence of musical tastes. Soon they were converging at every level - Lola filling Max's emptiness and vice versa.But Max had also always craved...

Angelica's Grotto is a pornographic website into which seventy-two-year-old art historian Harold Klein wanders one evening. Klein, a walking catalogue of infirmities, known to medical consultants as 'he who declines to hop the twig', may not be up to much physically but there's a lot of sex going on in his head....