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Patty Diphusa, a star (in her own words) of pornographic photo stories, is invited by the editor of a postmodern magazine to tell her story. For Patty, it’s always night; her adventures are almost always related to a wide variety of sexual activities and...

Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn into a knight. In the company of his squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in many ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—Sancho acquires sagacity. Together they have...

Considered as the contemporary American novel, its author A. M. Homes offers a sarcastic point of view about society’s paradoxes and the dirty secrets of today’s American family. This novel tells the unusual experiences of two brothers: Harry and George. Harry must take responsibility...

The books here show Charles Bukowski's skill as a great short story writer, one who is a harsh portraitist of the urban underworld. With a cocktail of syncopated, visceral writing, black humour, uninhibited sex, and lots of alcohol, he outlines a sort of map...

This volume collects the first three novels of a key author of contemporary French literature. Three novels that received numerous awards: they represent brilliant novels, social complicity, organized crime, and parties in this black period of twentieth century France, specifically occupied Paris. / Este...

Paris, October 1942. A couple meets during the city's occupation. He’s Jewish; she's Belgian. They marry and have two children; one of them is Patrick Modiano. They lived for twenty years in Conti, among strange characters: businessmen whose jobs are always mysterious, actresses willing...

Guy Roland is a man without a past or a memory. He worked for eight years in the detective agency of Baron Constantin von Hutte, has just retired and begins now, in this novel of mystery, an exciting journey into the past on the...

In The Herb of the Nights, Modiano invites us, as in his other novels, to a dramatic journey, this time through a spectral Paris. The city is configured as an inner geography, made of layers of time confused and intermingled in this evocation and...

Edgar Allan Poe created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. His name conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, of love that extends beyond the grave, and of black...

Madness and horror have both being an obsession in my life, says the author. All the books that I have written talk about nothing but that. I tried to escape. I did a research on my paternal grandfather who, after a tragic life, died...

Rosamond has died. In her will is stated that the inheritance will be divided among equal parts: to Gill and David, her nieces and Imogen, a stranger. But when Gill goes to her aunt’s, he finds another legacy: several cassette tapes which Rosamond had...

This novel tells the story of the common proletariat who protested against the czar and the capitalists which eventually led to the October Revolution. Pelageya is the wife of a factory worker who ignores the political upheaval in her country in favor of caring...

The situation happens in early 80’s. Madeleine Hanna, a hopeless romantic girl, who is doing her thesis about Jane Austen and George Eliot, is focused in learning how those two authors approached love in their writings. She gets involved in a passionate love story,...

The night before her first day as a middle-school teacher, Celeste Price fiercely masturbates. She is a young and beautiful woman with a husband 17 years older than her. He is a police officer, as gorgeous as she is. At school Celeste cares little...

Memory does not follow a chronological order: it goes forward and backward, pausing and then starting unexpectedly. This third volume of My Struggle has a narration that goes in many directions with spasmodic accuracy that becomes a spectacular exercise of autobiographical realty. Boyhood Island...

This short storybook is named after one of the stories contained within about a mother who tells her son a story that strikes him as a hint of her getting older. While on a phone call with him, she says: “This is the end."...

Winter in Nice. It is raining and the coffee shops are totally empty. This off-season story starts in the French Riviera, where the main character meets Sylvia. The story raises some questions that do not have easy answers. / Niza en invierno. Llueve y...

Jérôme Angust, a bussiness man, is waiting at the airport gate for his delayed flight. He starts reading a book to kill time until an unknown man, Textor Texel, tries to start a conversation with him; despite Jérôme's lack of interest in the conversation,...

Do you remember the Loch Ness Monster? Something similar is happening in a little lake in Minnesota. Whether it's a monster, an unknown predator, an urban legend or just an excuse to attract tourists, this book is an amazing and crazy story that includes...

Jimmy Sarano lives in a Mediterranean city in a self-imposed exile. He writes serialized novels for Radio Mundial, a small radio station with a big name. His life is all about routine, until one day he finds a girl whose face reminds him of...