A powerful and poetic masterpiece where ordinary people's dreams play out in a city plagued by government exploitation and crime As his wife delivers their child in the next room, a man wakes from the nightmare of a teenage girl's body lying beneath his bed. In this twilight before birth, Fadel's epic novel catches us in the confusion between exaltation and despair. The girl, Farah, once dreamed of being a singer in Casablanca, a city standing in...

When Michael Blake takes early retirement from the British Embassy in Cairo, he books a long-awaited birding trip. But halfway up the Nile, he meets Lee Yong and things begin to change. Their tour guide Reda isn't all he seems either and when, the Egyptian revolution kicks off, Blake finds himself embroiled in a tangled web of love and intrigue. Set against the background of the events of January 2011, Birds of the Nile is a powerful story of loss...

Frank, a resident of the Cave Court Care Home, spends his days trying to convince his fellow residents why socialism must replace capitalism. However, his audience is less than receptive to his political ideals. Sue and her fellow staff are overworked, understaffed and underpaid. Their life is a constant struggle to pay the bills and keep their heads above water. The Ragged Arsed Philanthropists follows the lives of the staff and residents of Cave...

For several years, Robert Kelley lived a primitive and contented life in a fishing village in the mangrove swamps of Sierra Leone. There, he developed and managed a project that built a cooperative fisheries station to support remote coastal villages. His development work done, he reluctantly turns the station over to the corrupt government Fisheries Division, whom he knows from experience will simply steal its resources and go away, leaving the villagers...

Cuando el narrador de esta novela conoce a Mirko Bevilacqua, un hombre extravagante que frecuenta de manera intermitente y clandestina a Clara, una joven que cuida de una anciana y elegante dama croata, su percepción de la realidad cambia irreversiblemente. Esta enigmática tríada sumerge al narrador en una exploración sobre la idea de autenticidad que lo llevará a recorrer la vieja Europa, cuyos lugares más significativos corren el riesgo de...

"La vida interna de una redacción de diario, las argucias de la maquinación de noticias, las miserias del mundito literario, la crueldad empresarial: con estos mismos materiales narrativos se destapan ollas, se cobran venganzas, se denuncian chanchullos, o bien se lanza un texto como quien lanza una molotov. Pero Hernán Arias cultiva una prosa despojada, la de los impasibles, ajena a las altisonancias, deseosa de precisión. El recorrido del director...

It is the novel of applicable utopia... Which makes readers to think, "If there is such an island like this really?"Daphne lives alone in the country where she started practice law following her university education. One day after work, she gets raped and this incident drags her at the brink of suicide. An unexpected visit from her best friend Tykhe, whom she had lost track of her for two years after the graduation from the university enables her...

Desde su observatorio solitario en la séptima planta de un edificio de viviendas, el narrador sin nombre de La avenida radiografía la Ciudad de Dios, una metrópoli decadente y moderna habitada por una nueva clase social, el Gran Relleno. También desde el Bar Porcacci observa la vida de los vecinos de aquel barrio paria (llamado la Pequeña Rusia durante los años del fascismo) que erigió, con olvidado heroísmo, la belleza de la ciudad eterna....

Martín Rivas (1862) is a novel by Alberto Blest Gana. Regarded as the first Chilean novel, Martín Rivas is a powerful story of romance, class, and national unity from an author who served for decades as a diplomat and ambassador for Chile. Inspired by the social realism of Honoré de Balzac, Blest Gana retains his European roots while remaining true to the emerging culture of his country. Martín Rivas has always feared the walls closing in. Born...

A Sensation Novel (1871) is a comic musical by W. S. Sullivan. First performed at the Royal Gallery of Illustration in January 1871, A Sensation Novel is one of Gilbert's collaborations with composer Thomas German Reed, whose German Reed Entertainments have been credited with revitalizing British theatre. As a satire of Victorian sensation novels that employs self-aware stock characters, the play is a metatheatrical work that anticipates Luigi Pirandello's...