Grove Press

Jerzy Kosinski's vision of moral and sexual estrangement captures the disturbing undercurrents of modern politics and culture. In this novel, distinctions are eroded between oppressor and oppressed, perpetrator and victim, narcissism and anonymity. Kosinski portrays men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the...

The adored and sheltered son of a prominent Polish family, fifteen-year-old Krzys is coming of age during a period when the world around him is falling apart. The time is the moment just before the eruption of World War II, which will forever change all of their lives, but Krzys is only partly aware of what is happening inside him and around him....

This early novella from Mikhail Bulgakov, published in 1925, already shows the surreal comic genius that later produced The Master and Margarita, the writer's masterpiece. A kind of Frankenstein parable, Heart of a Dog is the story of a stray dog that gains a human intelligence after a prominent Moscow professor transplants human glands into the...

Paperback edition of Goldman's novel which blends fiction with his own personal tragedy. Goldman's young wife Aura died suddenly on a beach in Mexico in 2007, and this book chronicles his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain. 'Wrenching, funny, powerful, beautiful.' Annie Proulx...

Throughout his life, playwright and political activist Harold Pinter has consistently cast light on the hypocrisy of conformist truths in pure and simple terms. Death etc. brings together Pinter's most poignant and political writings. From chilling psychological portraits of those who commit atrocities in the name of a higher power, to essays on...

The Surprising History of How We Are BornWell-researched and engaging . . . Birth is a clever, almost irreverent look at an enduring everyday miracle. (A-) Entertainment WeeklyWonderful. Packed full of information, a brilliant mixture of ancient wisdom and modern science. Kate Mosse, author of the New York Times best seller, LabyrinthBirth is a...