by Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke Original title: Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei
Indeed I wept. A macho book written from the perspective of a woman, all about the feminine, By the River Piedra I Sat Down & Wept is another one of Paulo Coelho’s tales of the search for wisdom. This time, however, we are not in a desert (as in The Alchemist), (more...)
by Marcel Moring Translated by Stacey Knecht Original title: Het grote verlangen
Overtly Jewish themes dominate Marcel Möring’s prize-winning first novel, Mendels Erfenis (Mendel’s Inheritance, 1990) and his third, In Babylon (1997). This, his second, he has described as ‘an urban novel, like a road movie’. In each of his novels, (more...)