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For a Lost Soldier
"During the winter of 1944 in occupied Holland, eleven-year-old Jeroen is evacuated to a small fishing community on the desolate coast of Friesland, where he meets Walt, a young Canadian soldier with the liberating forces. Their relationship immerses the young boy in a tumultuous world of emotional and sexual experience, suddenly curtailed when the Allies move on and Walt disappears. Back home in Amsterdam, a city in the throes of liberation fever, Jeroen searches for the soldier he has lost. A child's fears and confused emotions have rarely been described with such depth of understanding, and seen as it is from the child's viewpoint it invites total empathy." -- Back cover.
Eline Vere
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Journey Into The Past
Stefan's Zweig's posthumously-published Journey into the Past (Widerstand der Wirklichkeit) is a beautiful meditation on the effect of time on passion-one of the most intense and compelling works from a master of the novella form. Published by Pushkin Press with a cover designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats as part of a new range of Stefan Zweig paperbacks. Kept away for nine years by the First World War Ludwig has finally returned home, reunited at last with the woman he had so passionately loved, and who had promised to wait for him. Previously divided by wealth and class, both are now married and much changed by their experiences. Confronted with an uncertain future, and still haunte...
Hotel Savoy
A critically acclaimed early work from the author of The Radetzky March— one of the most significant literary German novels ever writtenAfter the end of World War I, Gabriel Dan is released from a POW camp in Russia and begins making his way home to Austria. He comes to an industrial town in Poland, and checks in the ramshackle Hotel Savoy while awaiting financial aid from his family. Here he meets a kaleidoscope of characters, a microcosm of society in which rich and poor, itinerants, dissidents, and malcontents live lives of hope, expectancy, and despair in an atmosphere pregnant with revolutionary fervor.
Flight Without End
“An almost perfect novel” — Rolling Stone A soldier travels through Europe on a doomed mission to track down his fiancée in this masterful and vivid evocation of life between the wars Franz Tunda, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, is captured by the Russians in World War I. Imprisoned in Siberia, he escapes to a remote farm, hiding out in such deep cover that he only learns of the end of the war months after the final shots have been fired. When peace is at last declared, Tunda pulls out a crumpled photo of a fiancée he doesn’t know—Irene is simply a beautiful face who represents the world before—and sets off in search of home. But the old order has vanished, and Tunda f...
The Watch Tower
First published in 1966, this novel tells the story of an obsessive and cruel man, and his relationship with two friendless women. The drama unfolds as the younger of the two attempts to loosen the bonds they have forged with him. The author has written four novels as well as short stories.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the real hero of them all is you, the reader. 'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell 'A writer of dizzying ambition and variety, each of his stories is a fresh adventure into the possibilities of fiction' Guardian
De leerschool der liefde
Een jonge student wordt smoorverliefd op een getrouwde vrouw. Het verloop van die liefde gedurende vijfentwintig jaar is de rode draad in deze onvergetelijke roman. In 'De leerschool der liefde' geeft Gustave Flauberts aangrijpende verwoording van het levensgevoel van zijn hoofdpersonage tegelijkertijd een beeld van zijn eigen generatie: de jongeren van 1840 die, vervuld van ambitie en idealen, toeleven naar de revolutie van 1848. De jonge student Frédéric Moreau wordt smoorverliefd op de getrouwde mevrouw Arnoux. Het verloop van deze liefde gedurende vijfentwintig jaar is de rode draad in deze onvergetelijke ontwikkelingsroman. Daarmee is 'De leerschool der liefde' ook een, deels autobiografische, liefdesgeschiedenis.
Confession of a Murderer
A tale of deception and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revoution
