Product Description: A moving and enigmatic novel which deals with the Holocaust and a man's search for his own identity. Magnus pieces together the complex puzzle of his life, which turns out to be closer to a painting by Edward Munch than the romantic tale of family heroism and self-sacrifice on which he was nurtured by the woman he believed was his mother...read more

Product Description: France's greatest living novelist covers fifty years of rural and Parisian life, from World War II to the present day. She follows the life of an albino child abandoned at birth at a convent and her subsequent life as a servant, a domestic in a brothel, and as an abandoned street-walker...read more

Product Description: Ludvik is a man who has touched bottom. Eleven years ago he left his country appalled by the poisonous spiritual and moral bankruptcy of East European communism. Now he is back. Not because the situation has improved-the post-communist era has brought its own brand of cynicism and soullessness-but because he has been rejected by the woman he loved and, like a wounded animal seeking refuge, he has come home...read more

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After a childhood of loneliness and anger, Charles-Victor Peniel eventually finds himself in Paris during the riots of May 1968, and becomes involved with dangerous companions who lead him into a murderous situation. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this new novel by the celebrated author of The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague, Prokop Poupa, a professor of literature in Prague, is dismissed by the communist regime and reduced to working as a cleaner in a block of flats...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A novel, translated by Liz Nash. Lucie Daubigne is an adventurous eight-year old whose idyllic childhood ends when, given a new room of her own, she is visited by an ogre. It is their secret, and if she tells anyone she will be sorry; so Lucie becomes the ogre's third victim, and is abused each night by her stepbrother Ferdinand...read more

Product Description: Book by Germain, Sylvie

Product Description: The Book of Nights marks the American debut of one of Europe's most powerful and celebrated young writers. Winner of six literary prizes, The Book of Nights combines the timeless power of medieval legend, the resonance of Greek tragedy, and the harsh immediacy of a newsreel...read more

Passionate, cruel, and fully human, Victor-Flandrin Peniel acts as the focal point for the intertwined stories of his four wives and fifteen children, their lovers and enemies, and the endless cycle of birth and death.