Miroslav Blam walks through the empty streets of Novi Sad, remembering. The war has ended,
but for Blam the town is haunted with its presence, and memories of its dead: Aaron Grün, the hunchbacked watchmaker; Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; ...
A New York Review Books OriginalHav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be
the site of Troy, captured during the crusades and recaptured by Saladin, visited by Tolstoy, Hitler, Grace Kelly, and Princess Diana, this Mediterranean city-state is ...
A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of
postwar English literature.Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic ...
Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times–bestselling “enduring masterpiece” about
a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic).Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena ...
Booker Prize Winner: A pub gathering of elderly married couples devolves into mischief in this
“sharp and funny” British comedy about marriage, aging, and friendship (The Washington Post) Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The ...
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used
to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives ...
In Tests of Time (2003), Gass shares his thoughts about writing, reading, culture, history, politics,
and public opinion, including essays on classic writers and contemporaries, literary lists and their use, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, and ...
Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriageThe Dry Heart begins
and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale—a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—proceeds, ...
