Published a decade before his International Booker Prize-winning Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinovs The Physics of Sorrow has become an underground cult classic. Finding strange solace in the myth of the Minotaur, a man named Georgi reconstructs the s...Lasīt vairāk
Compulsively readable New York TimesUtterly original Alberto ManguelIn the small and the insignificant - thats where life hides, thats where it builds its nest.Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from attacks of pathological empathy,...Lasīt vairāk
Its 1481, and as seen from the centers of power in Rome and Venice, the cultures of Europe are under threat from the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. When the exalted Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror dies his eldest son, Bayezid, takes the throne. Howeve...Lasīt vairāk
A GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe most exquisite kind of literature... Ive put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then. OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow...Lasīt vairāk
"e;At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,"e; begins Time Shelters enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "e;In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Jan-2016, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781940953274)
Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarters takes place in the eighties and nineties, during Bulgarias transition from communist rule to democracy.The bookwhich is a love story, a parody, and a thriller about a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Jan-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Open Letter, ISBN-13: 9781940953274)
Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarters takes place in the eighties and nineties, during Bulgarias transition from communist rule to democracy.The bookwhich is a love story, a parody, and a thriller about a...Lasīt vairāk
