The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husba...(展开全部)

The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husba...(展开全部)

Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lothario...(展开全部)

Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lothario...(展开全部)

An unobtrusive portrait photographer who knew what he wanted from his subjects at the onset of his career, August Sander is the photographer of the soul and the chronicler of an age. A meticulous workman and driven artist, he photographed the defeated citizenry of Germany in 1918, who needed photo identification cards for the occupying forces. By 1929 he had photographed all c...(展开全部)

An unobtrusive portrait photographer who knew what he wanted from his subjects at the onset of his career, August Sander is the photographer of the soul and the chronicler of an age. A meticulous workman and driven artist, he photographed the defeated citizenry of Germany in 1918, who needed photo identification cards for the occupying forces. By 1929 he had photographed all c...(展开全部)

The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home. 'If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitted our feelings to each other across three countries.' Elsa M. Anderson is a ...(展开全部)

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new l...(展开全部)

Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new l...(展开全部)