The Naples Mafia, cocaine trafficking, crime, blackmail, threats, dirty money, rapes, children deprived of their childhood, hidden family secrets, corrupt cops, but also police officers committed to duty, Colombian drug dealers, Brazilian forgers, strained relationships, strong friendships and, of course, Love....
A man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Cafe Sport by two agents of the Regime-though what exactly he is suspected of we do not know, and neither, apparently, does he....
Hans Christian Andersen, deeply sorrowful by unexpected events in his life, in the autumn of 1865, decides to travel to Stockholm to meet his beloved friend, Fredrika Bremer....
This trilogy, "The Club", "Ariagni", "The Bat", is the saga of three cities - Jerusalem, Cairo and Alexandria - which are drifting towards chaos in a war-torn Middle East...
FROM ITS FIRST APPEARANCE IN 1903 "The Murderess" has been regarded as Papadiamandis's finest work. Set on his native island it tells the story of Hadoula, a widow with grown-up children,
This work of Ritsos, is it a novel with an emphatic question-mark added by the poet himself? Is it a roman fleuve in the sense of the Proust s "Remembrance of things past"? Is it a wild prose-poetic fling in a "sarcastic climate"? Or is it an autobiography of Greece s most human poet, whom Aragon hailed as the "greatest poet of his time"? And what about the strange title? How are the established Orthodox saints, traditionally decorating the panels near the altar, how are they replaced by anonymous human beings? -everyday people from Ritsos neighbourhood members of his family and simple inhabitants of Monemvasia; unassuming fellow-prisoners on exile islands and a closely-knit band of friends....