A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novel begins in
New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his ...
The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of
the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous ...
Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book AwardLonglisted for the Believer Book AwardLonglisted for the Warwick
Prize for Women in TranslationA Los Angeles Times BestsellerThe English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, ...
Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity’s
struggle through modernity. In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase ...
English summary: French translation of Sinclair Lewiss classic parody and critique of early twentieth-century American
religiosity. French description: Elmer Gantry (introuvable en librairie depuis des annees) est le livre qui valut a Sinclair Lewis, le Nobel de litterature en 1930: ...
Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the
outside—and betrayal born within the close-knit communityA Penguin Classic In this masterful tale set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of ...
One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations—now also in our elegant black spine dressRyünosuke Akutagawa
is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. Rashömonand In a ...
Hosting an award-winning novelist is quite a Christmas coup for the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers
and Cheese Straw Society. But when he’s murdered in Lizzie Turner’s house, she’s got a holiday homicide on her hands …For their very first guest ...