Death in Venice

The world-famous masterpiece by way of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- right here in a brand new translation by way of Michael Henry HeimPublished at the eve of worldwide warfare I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had verified Thomas Mann as a literary star, dying in Venice tells the tale of Gustav von Aschenbach, a profitable yet getting older author who follows his wanderlust to Venice looking for non secular success that as an alternative ends up in his erotic doom.

The Space Between

Wrongs would possibly not make a correct, yet what approximately 3? JP Rodriguez’s debut novel is an exam of what it capability to reside a contemporary existence and the cost of inactiveness in a global the place probabilities at redemption and happiness are all too few. Watched over via the majestic mountains of the Canadian west, the narrator got here early to appreciate that each motion creates a response, and what is going up comes downusually tough.

Sur la courbe de nos rondeurs terrestres: Roman psychologique (Je est Ailleurs) (French Edition)

Une fuite hors du temps et de l'espace pour se libérer. .. Partie sur les strains d’un amour perdu, l. a. narratrice descend le fleuve Mékong un an après avoir fait le voyage à deux, comme pour exorciser l’absence de l’autre. Parallèlement, elle met en scène un double africain. Sillonnant le Laos et l. a. Thaïlande, écumant ses souvenirs d’Afrique, elle interroge le monde post-colonial et prolonge le voyage pour échapper à ses frontières.

Nuvole di fango (Italian Edition)

D’estate, in cerca di sollievo dal caldo, los angeles tinca si immerge nella melma dei fondali. Quando poi torna a muoversi, inevitabilmente solleva una nuvola di fango. Come Jonathan: giovane dal passato segnato, ha bisogno di nascondersi, cerca di muoversi il meno possibile e, quando lo fa, solleva una nuvola torbida attorno a sé.