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Four-year-old Romochka is left alone in a dark, empty Moscow apartment. After a few days, hunger drives him outside, where he sees a large, yellow dog loping past and follows her to her lair on the outskirts of the city. During the seasons that follow, Romochka changes from a boy into something far wilder. He learns to see in the dark, attack...

When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will have to deal with this unsettling secret themselves, but meanwhile, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas. Rosa, beautiful,...

Zbiór esejów z lat 1962-1974 wielkiego austriackiego powieściopisarza, dramaturga i filozofa kultury, laureata Nagrody Nobla (1981), Eliasa Canettiego (1905-1995). O zaskakującej różnorodności tematycznej tych esejów tak pisze sam autor w Uwagach wstępnych: W tomie tym zaprezentowane zostały eseje z lat 1962-1974 w kolejności ich powstawania. Na...

ťGenauigkeit der Beobachtung, Reichtum der Formen und Bilder, Motive, die ebenso überraschend wie unmittelbar einleuchtend sind, vor allem aber eine Ironie, die das Pathos der Form bricht und einen Gegenstand zur Klarheit bringt. Man liest, und plötzlich ist der Augenblick alles.Ť Thomas Steinfeld, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung...

Morris Gleitzman's acclaimed story of friends Felix and Zelda in Nazi-occupied Poland has captured the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. In "Now", he delivers the final chapter, bringing this most moving of stories into the present day. One of the reasons this humane and carefully crafted book is so readable is that the author celebrates...

As anyone who has spent time on the road knows, you often have to depend on signs...to navigate through a town, locate your hotel, even obey the law a scary thought if you've ever come across any of the publicly posted absurdities that appear in this book. Signs about as easy to understand as a Swahili auctioneer (to a non-Swahili speaker) or as...