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Contemporary Fiction

Paul Auster

The Book of Illusions

The Book of Illusions
David Zimmer, an English professor in Vermont, is trying to rebuild his life after his family perishes in an airplane crash by researching the work of Hector Mann, a minor figure from the era of silent movies, in this enigmatic, elliptical 10th ...read morå

Paul Auster

The Brooklyn Follies

The Brooklyn Follies
The 60-year-old Nathan Glass returns to Brooklyn after his wife has left him. He is recovering from lung cancer and looking for a quiet place to die. In Brooklyn he meets his nephew, Tom, whom he has not seen in several years. Tom has seemingly ...read morå

Paul Auster

The Music of Chance

The Music of Chance
After the death of his father Jim Nashe inharited a tolerable inheritance. Se he left his job and spent a solid year doing nothing but driving across the country. When he run out of money, he met a young and ambitious poker player named Jack Pozzi, ...read morå

Paul Auster

Man in the Dark

Man in the Dark
Quite a few of Auster's novels have a surreal quality. Man in the Dark does too. In this case, it's an almost science fictional scenario - an alternate America where civil war has broken out and the United States has become the Disunited ...read morå

Paul Torday

The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers

The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers
Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army and is slightly at a loss as to what to do next, when he is approached by an old army pal, Bilbo Mountwilliam. Bilbo runs an investment fund company and business is booming. Bilbo ...read morå

Pawel Huelle

Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz
In the Polish city of Gdansk, the narrator tells about the driving lessons he took in the early 1990s, shortly after the end of communism. As he struggled with the tiny Fiat's gearbox, causing chaos while stalled at a crossroads, Pawel entertained ...read morå

Petru Cimpoeşu

Simeon the Liftite: A Novel with Angels and Moldavians

Simeon the Liftite: A Novel with Angels and Moldavians
“Simeon the Liftite: A Novel with Angels and Moldavians” is the most successful and translated book of Petru Cimpoeşu. It has brought to him huge fame and many awards in Romania as well as in many other European countries. The story ...read morå

Philip Roth

The Breast

The Breast
The narrator, David Kepesh, recounts the changes that occurred in his life in the preceding two years, beginning with the peculiar sensations he felt in his penis. These sensations of increased sensitivity, accompanied by increased sexual desire, ...read morå

Philip Roth

Indignation

Indignation
Set in America in 1951, the second year of the Korean War, Indignation is narrated by Marcus Messner, a college student from New Jersey, who describes his sophomore year at Winesburg College in Ohio. Marcus transfers to ...read morå

Philippe Djian

Lent dehors

Lent dehors
"Lent dehors" is one more fascinating novel by Philippe Djian. It is about a big love and big ftiendship, about ballet, music and books, a balancing novel that questions and gives hard answers. ...read morå

Philippe Djian

37,2 Degrees in the Morning

37,2 Degrees in the Morning
An odd patological love that doesn't consider time and condtions as meaningful factors. A game where the attempt to taim the other one pushes the participants beyond the limits and stands them in front of an abyss. ...read morå

Philippe Djian

Maudit manege

Maudit manege
"Maudit manege" is the sequel of "37,2 Degrees in the Morning". Five years after the death of his beloved the protagonist is on his way of achiving the success that she dreamed of. The novel is a story about the friendship between the writer and an ...read morå

Philippe Djian

Impurities

Impurities
On a heel amongst marvellous forests and gardens in luxury houses live luxury people. It all seems splendid in this best of all impossible words but just on the surface. In the depths there are many tragedies - a woman is drown under unclarified ...read morå

Pierre Mérot

Mammals

Mammals
"Every model family should have a fuck-up: a family without a fuck-up is not truly a family ..." So begins the story of Uncle, one of life's most accomplished under-achievers. A morose bachelor squashed between the legacy of a dozen futile jobs and ...read morå

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