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Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet & student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, & his silent & seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three different narrators tell the story, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 & moves from New York to Paris & to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger & a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth & memory, authorship & identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America`s most spectacularly inventive writers. ...

In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ` Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult & in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.` ...

Ellison`s blistering & impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the extraordinary story of a man who is invisible `simply because people refuse to see me`. Yet his powerfully depicted adventures
- from a terrifying Harlem race riot to his expulsion from a Southern college
- go far beyond the story of one man. The lives of countless millions are evoked in this superb portrait of a generation of black Americans.

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Award-winning translator & author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from China. Some stories have won awards; some have been included in various ` Year`s Best` anthologies; some have been well reviewed by critics & readers; & some are simply Ken`s personal favorites. Many of the authors collected here (with the obvious exception of Liu Cixin) belong to the younger generation of `rising stars`. In addition, three essays at the end of the book explore Chinese science fiction. Liu Cixin`s essay, The Worst of All Possible Universes & The Best of All Possible Earths, gives a historical overview of SF in China & situates his own rise to prominence as the premier Chinese author within that context. Chen Qiufan`s The Torn Generation gives the view of a younger generation of authors trying to come to terms with the tumultuous transformations around them. Finally, Xia Jia, who holds the first Ph.D. issued for the study of Chinese SF, asks What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese?. ...

This book brings Rome's invisible inhabitants to life. Robert Knapp seeks out the tradespeople, innkeepers, housewives, priests, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers & gladiators who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome & the outlaws & pirates who lay beyond it. Robert Knapp brings invisible inhabitants of Rome & its vast empire to life. He seeks out the ordinary men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, & gladiators, who formed the fabric of everyday life in the ancient Roman world, & the outlaws & pirates who lay beyond it. He finds their own words preserved in literature, letters, inscriptions & graffiti & their traces in the nooks & crannies of the histories, treatises, plays & poetry created by members of the elite. He tracks down & pieces together these & other tell-tale bits of evidence cast off by the visible mass of Roman history & culture, & in doing so recreates a world lost from view for two millennia. We see how everyday Romans sought to survive & thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, & violence, & to control their fates before powers that variously oppressed & ignored them. Chapters on each of the main groups reveal how their worlds were linked in need, dependence, exploitation, hope & fear. Slaves & ex-soldiers merge into the world of the outlaw; slaves become freedmen; the sons of freedmen enlist as soldiers; &, the concerns of women transcend every boundary. We see them all at last in the tumult of a great empire that shaped their worlds as it reshaped the wider world around them. ...

The hilarious & magical adventures of everyone`s favourite flat hero
- Flat Stanley. With brilliant new illustrations by the award-winning
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Sara, a therapist, always thought her husband Mike died in Afghanistan
- but when she learns he was actually killed in India,
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Joel Burns has always believed his father is still alive. His mother Jackie has long been glad to know Gilberto is dead. When a sighting on a news report from Rio de Janeiro suggests Joel might be right, he travels to Brazil determined to find his long-lost father. Nelson, a down-&-out musician guided by the spirits of Jesus, Yemanja & his late Aunt Zila, helps Joel retrace his childhood steps
- & face up to the contrast between his rosy memories of Gilberto & his mother`s accounts of the man`s cruelty. Back at home in Brighton, Joel`s trip stirs up Jackie`s own recollections of her life in Rio
- from the beautiful early years, when Gilberto was trying to make it in the Bossa Nova scene, to the violent times following his arrest & imprisonment by the military authorities. Invisibles spans two cities by the sea & four decades of music, torture & romance. From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil & the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love & loss. At once familiar & foreign, this sweet, sad & compulsively readable first novel throngs with visceral memory & unbreakable ordinary heroes.

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A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a popular beach resort in southern Italy. In what looks like a hopeless case for Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence, a Senegalese peddler is accused of the crime. Faced with small-town racism fuelled by the recent immigration from Africa, Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts. More than a perfectly paced legal thriller, this relentless suspense novel transcends the genre. A powerful attack on racism, & a fascinating insight into the Italian judicial process, it is also an affectionate portrait of a deeply humane hero. ...