The chance to join 'the Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin' (New York Times) From the author of A Manual for Cleaning Women. Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in Paradise Berlin writes about the good, the bad and everything in between: struggling young mothers, husbands who pack their bags and leave in the middle of the night, wives looking back at their...

Publishing in English for the very first time, Japan's beloved coming-of-age classic on what really matters in life The streets of Tokyo swarm below fifteen year-old Copper as he gazes out into the city of his childhood. Struck by the thought of the infinite people whose lives play out alongside his own, he begins to wonder, how do you live? Considering life's biggest questions for the first...

Ces personnages vont vous jouer l'histoire d'Antigone. Antigone, c'est la petite maigre qui est assise la-bas, et qui ne dit rien. Elle regarde droit devant elle. Elle pense. Elle pense qu'elle va etre Antigone tout a l'heure, qu'elle va surgir soudain de la maigre jeune fille noiraude et renfermée que personne ne prenait au sérieux dans la famille et se dresser seule en face du monde, seule en...

'This book is going to fundamentally change some of the most important conversations in your life-the ones you have with yourself.' - Adam Grant, bestselling author of Give and Take Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel H. Pink's Next Big Idea Club Winter 2021 Winning Selection One of the best new books of 2021 - BBC Science Focus Magazine, The...

“Road Seeking” is one of a series of novels relating how the Chinese entrepreneurs in Poland seek roads to their dreams, and start business in Poland. This book is a narration offered to Xiao Yao by her Boss Dong Er, head of GD business and service company, who unfolds his turbulent life story starting from a very difficult childhood and stretching to the time spent in Poland to study. After...

Wielka powieść o rodzinie - "The Sound and the Fury" "The Sound and the Fury" to monumentalna powieść napisana przez Williama Faulknera, laureata Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury. Od momentu swojej publikacji w 1929 roku, książka ta uważana jest za jedno z najważniejszych dzieł XX wieku. Faulkner w niezwykle intensywny sposób przedstawia rozpad rodziny Compson, ukazując złożone i...

Since his death in 1924, Kafka has come to be regarded as one of the greatest modern writers, one whose work brilliantly explores the anxiety, futility, and complexity of modern life. The precision and clarity of Kafka's style, its powerful symbolism, and his existential exploration of the human condition have given his work universal significance. In addition to the title selection,...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWe all have an ikigai. It's the Japanese word for 'a reason to live' or 'a reason to jump out of bed in the morning'. It's the place where your needs, desires, ambitions, and satisfaction meet. A place of balance. Small wonder that finding your ikigai is closely linked to living longer. Finding your ikigai is easier than you might think. This...