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Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-15%Genaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd. He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...
-15%Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...
-20%The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic. It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost ...
-12%The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...
-20%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%Translated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...
-17%In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
-15%H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...
-15%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
-10%Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...
-15%Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is lo...
-15%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...
-35%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
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Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, this is the first novel by Irish author, Kevin Barry. Set in the 2053, it shows a world without technology. There are trams, but no cars; people write letters instead of phone; and music is broadcast on hand crank radios. Warring factions fight for control of Bohane in a "demented...
Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, this novel tells the story of an organ transplant and of what went on in the life before. Of a patient’s countless days and nights in the hospital and the never-ending string of patients he shares his room with, of their stories and confessions. And lying on his bed as he travels through the...
The collection of the first set of police stories by the great Portuguese poet, writer, publisher and translator, Fernando Pessoa. Besides being one of the greatest Portuguese poets, he was a significant literary figure in the 20th century who held the genre of detective fiction in high regard.
A new Arabic translation of Dostoevsky's novella about a government clerk and his journey into madness when a doppelganger appears and begins to take over his life.
The newest novel by award-winning French author, Gilbert Sinoue, takes the reader on a fabulous journey, between legend and truth, to one of the oldest civilizations in the world: the country of Dilmoun. Dilmoun, the "country where the sun rises", was, according to Sumerian tradition, the place where the only survivor of the Flood resided. ...
This historical novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate is considered by some to be a masterpiece of Latin American literature. It masterfully weaves together fact and fiction to narrate an actual event: the assassination and its aftermath of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.
This gripping second novel by award-winning author, Gerbrand Bakker, tells the story of a Dutch woman named Emilie (not her real name) who severs all ties with her former life, including a husband who his alive and well, and moves to an isolated cottage on the coast of Wales. Bakker was awarded the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 for...
This autobiographical novel by Belgian author Amelie Nothomb was awarded the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise the same year it was published. It tells the story of a young woman who takes a job on a one-year contract as a translator at a prestigious Japanese company. What follows is a comical and perplexing dance through...
Now available in Arabic! A Storm of Swords, book three of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire". An epic masterpiece of lords and ladies, assassins and bastards, soldiers and witchcraft, with a dragon or two or three thrown in for good measure. This product is one book in two volumes. The English language novel won both...
A masterpiece by one of the great modern French writers, the story is told in the form of a confessional letter. A bitter, aging lawyer, Monsier Louis, writes a letter to his estranged family explaining why his heart is like a knot of vipers. The novel presents a gripping look at the effects of pride, hatred, and greed upon a man's...
The novella by Joseph Conrad was first published in 1899. The main themes are colonialism and racism, and the novel has been extensively analyzed and hotly debated over time. This is a bilingual edition in Arabic and English.