Vintage

By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not...

From the award-winning author of Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories, which is as affecting as it is beautiful.With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short pieces of fiction to create a world that resonates with emotion, heartbreak, and humor. Here is a fragile, once...

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!A New York Times Notable BookOn the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habithe has purchased hundreds of womenhe asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is...

StoriesFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence....

';Pense en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algn modo los astros'. Jorge Luis BorgesFicciones es quiz el libro ms reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardn de senderos que se bifurcan y Artificios, ambos considerados piezas...

Now an animated film titledJack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart.FIRSTLY: don't touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart,...