1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution....
Knulp
Hard to come by in English, this novella from the early part of Hesse's writing career is an...
Veronika Decides to Die
Perhaps the 'mad' people are the ones living outside the asylum? In his latest international...
We
"The best single work of science fiction yet written" -- Ursula K. Le Guin A seminal work of...
The Essential Kafka
Collection includeds The Trial, The Castle, Metamorphosis and other stories. Like George Orwell,...
Remembrance of Things Past : 1
"For a long time I used to go to bed early." The first two volumes in Proust's seven volume...
A Musical Offering
More an experience than a narrative, Luis Sagasti weaves a web of music and storytelling in this...
Vanishing Point
An enigmatic mystery set in a fictional Genova. When an unidentified corpse is brought into the...
Transit
An existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, Transit explores the plight...
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (1892-1895) collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to...