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Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.

Eva can trace the route to Pim's farm with her eyes closed, even though she has not been to Bovenmeer for many years. There she grew up among the rape fields and dairy farms. There lies also the root of all their grief. Eva was one of three children born in her small Flemish town in 1988. Growing up alongside the boys Laurens and Pim, Eva sought refuge from her loveless family life in the company of her two friends. But with adolescence came a growing awareness of their burgeoning sexuality. Driven by their newly found desires, the children begin a game that will have serious and violent consequences for them all. Thirteen years after the summer she's tried for so long to forget, Eva is returning to her village. Everything fell apart that summer, but this time she'll be prepared. She has a large block of ice in her car boot and she's ready to settle the score... Part thriller, part coming-of-age novel, The Melting is an extraordinary and unsettling debut from Lize Spit, a reckoning with adolescent cruelty and the scars it leaves.

Dostoievski aduce in prim plan un personaj aparte, înzestrat cu calităţi deosebite, între care prevalează bunătatea şi sinceritatea. Capabil să îşi sacrifice propria persoană numai ca să îşi ajute semenii, prinţul Mîşkin este perceput de celelalte personaje ca fiind un idiot. Tocmai acesta este şi motivul pentru care Dostoievski a renunţat la prima variantă de titlu, Prinsul Mîşkin, în favoarea binecunoscutului Idiotul.

Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was the perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana—the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir—is now rendered in racy, stylish English.

Physician to the high-demon of the Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler. Kersten could alleviate Himmler's severe stomach pains with his hands using massage and manipulation. In return, Kersten bargained with Himmler to order the release of innocent prisoners condemned to die.

Zachée et Thadée, deux frères, étudiants brillants et surfeurs doués, déploient les charmes de leur jeunesse sous l’été sauvage de la Réunion. Mais l’été et la jeunesse ont une fin, et il arrive qu’elle survienne plus vite et plus tragiquement que prévu. Rebecca Lighieri publie aussi sous le nom d’Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam.

The classic French novel celebrated for its deeply felt depiction of childhood. Neglected by his parents, bullied by his peers, left to wander the streets and woods by himself (that is, when he isn’t locked in his room or the cellar for punishment), the little redheaded boy known as “Poil de Carotte” [“Carrot Top”] manages to triumph through imagination, cunning, and sheer persistence. An inspiration to writers as diverse as Barthelme, Beckett, and Sartre, Jules Renard’s timeless novel-in-stories is at once the lyrical account of a hard-knock provincial childhood and a frighteningly acute psychological study of how cruelty can affect a young mind-a book that is by turns chilling, humorous, and quietly beautiful.

On a summer evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. At first, the conversation is a gentle hum of polite small talk - the banality of work, the latest movies they've seen. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act - an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. When the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner is an internationally bestselling phenomenon that will leave you breathless.

La Malédiction

"La traque des étudiants se poursuivait boulevard Saint-Germain et rue Saint-Jacques. Des groupes de jeunes, garçons et filles mélangés, se battaient à mains nues contre les matraques des policiers, d’autres lançaient différents objets ramassés sur les trottoirs. Parfois, des fumées m’empêchaient de distinguer qui attaquait qui. Nous apprendrions plus tard qu’il s’agissait de gaz lacrymogènes. Le téléphone sonna. C’était Jean-Luc, très inquiet, qui craignait que je n’aie pas eu le temps de regagner notre appartement. 'Écoute Europe numéro 1, ça barde au Quartier latin !' Nous étions le 3 mai 1968." Anne Wiazemsky