Andreas Ersson Library

By Ismail Kadare

Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age tale and a testomony to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by way of the magic of lovely girls and literature, a boy needs to suffer the deprivations of warfare as he suffers the hardships of turning out to be up. His sleepy nation has simply thrown off centuries of tyranny, yet new waves of domination inundate his urban. in the course of the boy’s eyes, we see the terrors of global battle II as he witnesses fascist invasions, allied bombings, partisan infighting, and the numerous faces of human cruelty—as good because the easy pleasures of life.
Evacuating to the geographical region, he expects to discover a terrific international choked with awesome issues, yet discovers in its place an archaic backwater the place a severed arm turns into a talisman and deflowered women mysteriously vanish. Woven among the chapters of the boy’s tale are tantalizing fragments of the city’s historical past. because the devastation mounts, the fragments lose coherence, and we understand firsthand how the violence of struggle destroys greater than simply structures and bridges.

By Mary McCarthy

From Madame Bovary to Macbeth, this assortment by way of Mary McCarthy deals mind-blowing revelations approximately a few of the world’s so much cherished works
Shakespeare, Nabokov, Orwell, and Burroughs are only the various literary immortals featured during this enticing and thought-provoking volume.
In one amazing essay, McCarthy presents a full of life discourse at the real nature of evil in Shakespeare’s performs. concentrating on the nature of Macbeth, she unearths why woman Macbeth, who has to “unsex herself” and “wear the pants,” is the extra human of the 2. She tells us why the often-overlooked personality of Madame Bovary’s husband, Charles, is the genuine hero, and never Emma Bovary, whom Flaubert as soon as famously acknowledged was once himself. additionally integrated here's McCarthy’s impassioned security of Hannah Arendt’s arguable book Eichmann in Jerusalem, in addition to a dialogue of the reactionary leftist writers, and a glance at why J. D. Salinger used to be the most obvious successor to Hemingway.
Distinguished by way of McCarthy’s savage intelligence, readability of notion, and utter loss of pretension, The Writing at the Wall is a undying gem from an writer who reveres the written word.
This publication beneficial properties an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy together with infrequent pictures from the author’s property.

By Michael Spindler

By Gary Giddins, Dorothy Baker

Rick Martin enjoyed tune and the tune enjoyed him. He may possibly decide up a song so speedy that it didn’t topic to the Cotton membership boss that he used to be underage, or to the blokes within the band that he was once only a white child. He began within the slums of l. a. with not anything, and he ended up on best of the sport within the speakeasies and nightclubs of recent York. yet whereas expertise and force are all you must make it in song, they aren’t sufficient to make it via a life. 

Dorothy Baker’s Young guy with a Horn is generally considered as the 1st jazz novel, and it pulses with the tune that outlined an period. Baker took her concept from the artistry—though no longer the life—of mythical horn participant Bix Beiderbecke, and the unconventional went directly to be tailored right into a profitable motion picture starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day.

By José Lins do Rego

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By Julia Darling

"Perhaps it is going to be alright, i presumed. maybe, whilst i am going to paintings, there'll be peace, and Theobald will cease leaping from foot to foot, and Eva will not be beautiful."

Gert Hardcastle leads a lifetime of isolation cataloguing the Egyptian artefacts at a northern museum – till the 1st Letter drops onto her table. That’s the day she meets ballroom-dancing, iris-eyed Eva, and her cautious, stilted life starts off to solve.

As Gert starts off her unusual courtship of Eva, she appears again on her eccentric, surreal upbringing – the rambling condo with its resident Victorian ghost, her unusual, telepathic dual, her father George together with his relations crocodile farm, and her appealing, neglectful mom Jean, whose letters proceed to disturb her peace.

Award-winning writer Julia Darling’s vintage story of the hunt for romance, identification and attractiveness is humorous, poignant and peculiar via turns, as Gert progressively learns that her trip to the long run needs to pass through the earlier.

By Thomas Bernhard

The final paintings of fiction through one of many 20th century’s maximum artists, Extinction is generally thought of Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus.
 
Franz-Josef Murau—the highbrow black sheep of a robust Austrian land-owning family—lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by means of a coterie of creative and highbrow neighbors. On getting back from his sister’s marriage ceremony at the family members property of Wolfsegg, having resolved by no means to head domestic back, Murau gets a telegram informing him of the dying of his mom and dad and brother in a vehicle crash. not just needs to he now return, he needs to achieve this because the grasp of Wolfsegg. And he needs to come to a decision its destiny. Written within the seamless, enchanting sort for which Bernhard used to be recognized, Extinction is the final word facts of his impressive literary genius.

By Nile Southern

Within the early fall of 1958, the infamous Olympia Press in Paris released a unique entitled Candy, an erotic, Rabelaisian satire loosely in keeping with Voltaire's Candide through one Maxwell Kenton, pseudonym of its coauthors, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. the radical drew the eye of the French censors, was once banned, reissued through Olympia's intrepid writer less than the identify Lollipop, rebanned, on the other hand reissued. inside years it grew to become some of the most talked-about novels of the tumultuous Sixties, promoting within the hundreds of thousands of copies in the US by myself, its luck prompting Hollywood to show it right into a movie.The hilarious, rollicking, occasionally tragic tale of Candy's public occupation is acknowledged right here in complete. From the book's humble beginnings in past due Nineteen Fifties Paris via its agonizing three-year gestation (sometimes on paper napkins) and the authors' wily, usually self-destructive enterprise dealings with their both wily French writer, to its chaotic and arguable e-book within the usa, The sweet Men follows Candy's underground then mainstream success—with unblinking scrutiny at the info, together with the criminal shenanigans that surrounded it, the blatant piracy that plagued it, and the star-studded forged that helped make it into one of many worst videos of all time.

By Adolfo Bioy Casares

This choice of conventional and experimental tales by means of Argentinian novelist Bioy Casares ( The Adventures of a Photographer in los angeles Plata ) deals subtle, seamless prose, in addition to magical realism and biting political satire. - Publishers Weekly

A Russian Doll and different tales is the 9th number of brief fiction via one in every of this century's prime Argentinian writers who, together with his fellow countrymen Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, helped swap the world's notion of Latin American literature. Bioy Casares's narratives are stylish and urbane, his sort targeted and streamlined, as he paces his characters via seriocomic traps of fate––ensnared via love, impelled by means of lust, ambition, or simple greed, even metamorphosed by way of prescribed drugs. those usually are not tales in a mental mode yet just like the picture of the Russian doll of the identify piece are conscientiously wrought congeries of intractable selves inside selves.

By Charles Dickens, Emily Hutchinson