Vintage

Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embers became an international bestsellera sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the worlds most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from a Venetian prison and resurfaces in the Italian village of Bolzano. Here he...

La Conversacin contina.Lo ltimo que quera era hablar de Dios.Hablar con l ni le haba cruzado por la mente.Mattie Cominsky es una madre dedicada a su familia que se siente abandonada por su esposo, un adicto al trabajo. Cuando su esposo llega a casa un da con el cuento de que acaba de cenar con Dios, Mattie piensa que ha llegado el momento de...

A NovelIn 1968, the Chang family moves to posh Scarshill, New York, where the rhodendrons are as big as the Chang family's old bathroom, and nobody trims the forsythia into little can shapes. This takes some getting used to--especially since there's also a new social landscape, with a hot line, a mystery caller, and a temple youth group...

A Story of Crossing PathsOne of the most widely admired writers of our time returns us to the captivating play and narrative allure of his previous novelsG. and To the Wedding among themwith a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. The dead...

A NovelPassing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate Andr Gides Lafcadios Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime.When Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that hes heir to an ailing French...

A Hap and Leonard Novel (5)Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune.Even though a midlife crisis just hit Hap Collins like a runaway pickup truck, he's still got his job, he knows...