Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is...
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert....
The Magic Mountain
"The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1875−1955) is one of the premier works of fiction of the...
The Flanders Panel
The clue to a murder in the art world of contemporary Madrid lies hidden in a medieval painting of...
The Leopard
In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of...
Liquidation
"Not since Kafka or Beckett has a writer packed so much metaphysics into so tight a space." -- New...
Detective story
"A dark, disturbing novel, from a writer with a profound understanding of a dictatorship's inner...
The Seville Communion
Murderous goings-on in a tiny church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker...
The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories
"Twenty major [male] Russian writers are represented in this collection beginning with Pushkin,...
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
From the writer of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Yambo, a rare book dealer, has...













