Politics is about: a) a threesome; b) politicsMoshe loves Nana. But love can be difficult -- especially if you want to be kind. And Moshe and Nana want to be kind to someone else.They want to be kind to their best friend, Anjali. Politics explores crucial problems of sexual etiquette. What should th[...]

Haffner is charming, morally suspect, sexually omnivorous, and vain. Harried by his family, pursued by his women, menaced by bureaucrats, negotiating with the mafia, riven by his memory of the dead and of the missing, Haffner tries to orchestrate his final escape.[...]

"A brief and majestic debut." --Matias Nespolo, "El Mundo
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Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines, and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose father [...]

Exploding with unfolding pages and multiple directions, Kapow! is a new book by British writer Adam Thirlwell. Set in the thick of the Arab Spring, it is guided by the high-speed monologue of an unnamed narrator - over-doped, over-caffeinated, overweight - trying to make sense of this history in rea[...]

Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal's rambling, rambunctious masterpiece "Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age" is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roue tells the story of[...]

Raphael Haffner, 78 år, befinner sig i Alperna för att ta hand om sin frus arv, ett sommarhus i utkanten av en gammal kurort. Snart är han förföljd av kvinnor, jagad av sin familj, hotad av byråkrater och i konflikt med den lokala maffian. En på en gång storslagen och lättsam fars.