Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is...
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 Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
From the writer of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Yambo, a rare book dealer, has...
Death and the Penguin
No one wants to publish Viktor's short stories, but one day he gets a call from a newspaper asking...
If on a winter’s night a traveller
"The novel begins in a railway station, a locomotive huffs, steam from a piston covers the opening...













