Joseph O’Neill’s grandfathers—one Irish, one Turkish—were both imprisoned during World War II. His Irish grandfather was a member of the IRA who was interned with his comrades by the British. His other grandfather, from the Turkish Christian minor
The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai. Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, our unnamed hero leaves New
Het verhaal gaat over een wonderlijke man - Japi genaamd ("Zijn achternaam heb ik nooit geweten") - die van andermans geld leeft, pakken koopt die hij nooit betaalt, en zich oefent in 'versterven'. Japi heeft slechts één ideaal, en wel dat van de volmaa
De drie verhalen De uitvreter, Titaantjes en Dichtertje werden tijdens het leven van Nescio (pseudoniem van J.H.F. Grönloh) slechts enkele malen herdrukt, de laatste keer samen met het in 1946 verschenen Mene Tekel. Intussen behoren deze vertellingen met
"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.
This new collection of more than seventy stories by the iconic modern writer Robert Walser, includes stories that have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, n+1 online, Vice, and elsewhere. Also included is the complete “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the “co
Published when the author was just twenty-three, Life Goes On was Hans Keilson's literary debut, an extraordinary autobiographical novel that paints a dark yet illuminating portrait of Germany between the world wars. It is the story of Herr Seldersen—a
In 1869, at the age of twenty-five, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy
