This Orange Inheritance Edition of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. "Vintage Cla[...]
A rare and beautifully produced "accordion" book by renowned novelist and poet Anne Michaels and acclaimed artist and writer Bernice Eisenstein that will cause a stir for both its form and its content.
Anne Michaels's resonant book-length poem--which unfolds on one side of the pages of this acco[...]
Prior to her stunning first novel, Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels had already won awards and critical acclaim for two books of poetry: The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas, and Miner's Pond (1991), which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and w[...]
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of asto[...]
Vuonna 1964 vastavihityt Jean ja Avery Escher elävät asuntoveneessä Niilillä. Avery on yksi insinööreistä, jotka siirtävät Abu Simbelin temppeliä pois Assuanin padon myötä nousevan veden alta. Työkomennuksen aikana Jean tulee raskaaksi, mutta odotus päättyy tragediaan, jonka jälkeen [...]
Palkitun runoilijan heleä-ääninen esikoisromaani on kaunis ja herkkä kertomus kahdesta miehestä, joiden elämän sota muuttaa.[...]