A brilliant satire about a writer who changes languages. An immigrant from eastern Europe is admitted to a Belgian psychiatric hospital and submitted to a linguistic reinsertion therapy to cure his ailment: not writing in his mother-tongue.
The wealthiest family in an inland city is composed of the Wife, her Husband, their two young children, the Wife's mother and Amalia, the maid. In the large house where they live, everything is impeccable but appearances can be deceptive.
The chance discovery of an unusual, apparently worthless painting in the rubble is, in fact, the tip of the iceberg of a collection of extremely valuable, eccentric, irreverent works of art that a group of enlightened people hid during the War of
'Nobody loved the Pissimbonis. They lived in an ivy-clad house at the top of a hill, far enough away from the other houses for everyone to think of them as living outside the town.
Prague, August 10, 1942. Hans Krasa, a Czech composer and orchestra conductor of Jewish origin, is arrested by the SS and sent to the concentration camp at Theresienstadt.
Vicente Friman is the new kid. It’s happened before, so he’s not too worried. But this time is different. This time there’s Barbara, the leader of the Protectors. Or so she thinks.
Sofi lives with her parents and her grandfather in a house near to the wood. Sometimes her grandfather disappears for hours or even days, and returns home seeming very happy, albeit dirty.
In Grandma's house there's a catflap, with some very strange symbols drawn on it. and it's much bigger than normal. But what's really strange is that Grandma doesn't have a cat.
Berto is missing, and his classmates Mia, Eric, Samira and Justin at the New York Solfandi music school need to find him to make up a quintet to perform at the Fall Festival. Where can he have gone?
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Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...