Robert Graves – I, Claudius
The book, a fake autobiography, tells the story of Claudius' life from his childhood until the day he is proclaimed emperor.
A very appropriate literary...
Liz Moore – Heft
An intense perception of the world
Arthur is a lonely man, who is at the mercy of his obesity; Kel is a young budding baseball...
Joe R. Lansdale – The Magic Wagon
An odd saga
Texas, 1909. While the saga of the West is quite over, an eccentric rag-tag band wanders from city to city in a...
Isaac Asimov – The End of Eternity
A precious stone of shinig ethic
In order to fully enjoy this precious literary gem, we must undertake a small task, which entails going beyond...
Louise Erdrich – The Round House
A difficult coming-on-age
Summer 1988. A terrible crime rocks the already difficult lives of an Indian reserve in North Dakota.
Joe, the thirteen year-old main character,...
Will Eisner – Last Day in Vietnam
War as an experience
Eisner, through the collection “War stories”, brings the reader to Vietnam and to Korea with reports told in first person by...
Barbara Garlaschelli – Mermaid
Suffering without rhetoric
One day in the month of August 1981, Barbara Garlaschelli, who is both the author and the main character of this novel,...
Lucille Fletcher – The Girl In Cabin B54
High Anxiety Mysteries
A ship's doctor thinks he has permanently buried his past but a creepy young lady, who apparently is also a gifted psychic,...
Ring Lardner – Out of breath
Breath of emptiness
The characters of this collection of short stories act in the glorious America of the 30s between New York and Chicago. They...
Erri de Luca – In the name of the mother
We are all Miriàm
“In the name of the father”: marks the beginning of the sign of the cross whereas In the name of the...
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Angel Ivanov – Technical drill
Feverishly he went into the booth and
nervously, but quietly closed the metal door behind him. He left the stolen key
on the table...
