As the German army prepares to enter Rome, widowed shopkeeper Cesira packs a few provisions, sews...
The Reprieve
It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich...
Iron in the Soul
The third part of Sartre's trilogy, Roads to Freedom. June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the...
The Cossacks
Written in 1862, the year before Tolstoy embarked upon War and Peace, The Cossacks describes a...
A Servant to Two Masters
"I get double the pay, and two suppers. Streamlined efficiency, a sort of downsizing of the...
The Counterfeiters
A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the...
My Pen is the Wing of a Bird
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird is a landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by...
The Alchemist
The story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who dreams of travelling the world in search of...
Spring Torrents
Drawn suddenly into an impossible and quite unpractical romantic attachment, the weak-willed...
A Sunday in the Pool at Kigali
The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a privileged group of Kigali...