Harvill Press

Andrzej Stasiuk is the most accomplished Polish writer of his generation. The Walls of Hebron, Stasiuk#8217; s first book, is a collection of 12 stories about prison based on the author#8217; s own experience of life inside during the 1980s. ...

Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta. She won international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian state corruption. Nothing but the Truth is a collection of Anna Politkovskaya s best writing for Novaya gazeta, published between 1999 and 2006....

One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah?s mother tells him three things: don?t use drugs, don?t use weapons, don?t steal. The next day he wakes up to find she isn?t there. They have fled their village in Ghazni to seek safety outside Afghanistan but his mother has decided to return home to her younger children. Ten-year-old Enaiatollah is...

"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves." --"The New York Times Book Review" " " The year is...

With her vitality and freshness, her innocence, her unconventional intelligence and her relative lack of commercial ambition, Aurora Ortiz is a new type of heroine, one whose ethos and view of the world run contrary to most contemporary trends, she is a character who might have emerged from one of Pedro Almodovars films....

Dwadzieścia opowiadań napisanych w okresie 1929-1977, wypełnionych jest żywymi postaciami- od polującego na nimfy chórzysty do matki próbującej pozbyć się niechcianego kandydata do ręki córki....