A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his
Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely
„Holy Cow: A Modern Day Fairy Tale” opowiada historię krowy, Elsie, która przez przypadek ogląda w telewizji dokument na temat przemysłowego gospodarstwa mięsnego. Wstrząśnięta postanawia uciekać z farmy. Towarzyszą jej świnia Shalom, która przeszła na judaizm oraz indyk Tom, posługujący się
Rosellen Brown's extraordinary new novel, Half a Heart, tells the story of a former civil rights activist, Miriam Vener, who feels trapped in the comfortable white upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after
