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Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a...
$27.16Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...
-20%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-15%The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German. This is his debut memoir, writte...
-15%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%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%By the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, this is the haunting novella, based on the true story of a Jewish teenager in WWI...
-10%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
-15%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%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%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-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%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
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A collection of folk and mythological tales dating back to the pre-Islamic period in the Arabian Peninsula.
In this fantasy novel Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz weaves the story of Shahryar and Scheherezade in his own way. He mixes the worlds of humans and demons in a magical fabric of tales that incite philosophical contemplation and arouse astonishment.
A collection of short stories by some of America's most celebrated writers provides a comprehensive survey of the origin and growth of this literary form. The selections in this volume represent each author working at the very height of his or her powers, producing memorable, brilliant fiction. Each story, too, is illustrative of the growth...
Modern or old-fashioned, cafés are an essential element of Parisian decor. They are also theaters where scenes from daily life are played out at all times: chance or planned encounters, reunions or separations, in solitude or in a crowd… Sitting at a café table, French writer Didier Blonde observes and writes about...
A collection of stories featuring the gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin who has been described as the French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes. Arsène Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he always outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. And above all, he never takes...
A collection of stories featuring the gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin who has been described as the French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes. Arsène Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he always outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. And above all, he never takes...
A collection of short stories by beloved Egyptian writer, Ihsan Abdel Quddous. Written in the early Sixties, it begins with a letter written by Abdel Quddous to President Gamal Abdel Nasser that details the extreme, heavy, and violent censorship to which newspapers are subjected. The press had not yet been nationalized and Abdel Quddous was the...
Yahya Haqqi, an award-winning writer and novelist who published four collections of short stories, a novel, and many articles. He is known for experimentation with various literary forms.
A collection of short stories that present a vivid and unflinching portrait of life in Dublin, Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century.
A collection of mystery stories by a classic British author well-known for his exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives.
This collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Al-Multaqa Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 and the Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature in 2020. The author is an award-winning Egyptian novelist and journalist whose works have been translated into more than ten languages.
By the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen, this is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.