La premio nobel Herta Müller relata, en una lúcida conversación con Angelika Klammer, la historia de su vida desde su infancia en Rumanía hasta la actualidad.<br /><br /> Me siento (una vez más) como si me estuviera viendo desde fuera . Así comenzaba Herta Müller su discurso tra…
This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reve…
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surg…
When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.
When the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Wharburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances, Robert Amiss (the token sane member of the judging panel) wastes no time in summoning Baroness "Jack" Troutbeck to step into the chair. With the baroness at the helm, the …
When the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Wharburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances, Robert Amiss (the token sane member of the judging panel) wastes no time in summoning Baroness "Jack" Troutbeck to step into the chair. With the baroness at the helm, the …
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) -- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (1867-1925) -- Romain Rolland (1866-1944) -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) -- Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) -- Jose Saramago (1922- ) -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) -- George Seferis (1900-1971) -- Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1…
A history of Japanese publishing in the interwar period, addressing the material production of literary texts and the creation of literary value.