The first novel by famous anecdotal sex researcher Hite sends up American manners, mores, and media sometimes delightingly as her Ariadne, sort of a female Candide from heaven, and Jupiter (Ariadne's dog) visit Earth...Sequences set in heaven are the most amusing as when Ariadne rubs shoulders with ...

Shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award in 1987, New Zealander Noel Virtue creates here a wonderful account of childhood. Elsdon Bird is an affectionate and imaginative child who is raised in a family steeped in the religious intolerance of the Christian Brethren sect. After the fa...

This novel is considered to be Cesare Pavese's most personal. It's setting is the landscape of his own boyhood: the hills, vineyards, and villages of Piedmont. Three young men spend away their sun-drenched summer talking, drinking, enjoying life. One senses it is their last such summer. In view of i...

An unusual collection of five novellas about contemporary Tokyo, exposing the seamier side of Japanese life. All five depict the usually disastrous consequences of having relationships with foreigners. With a spare, authentic touch, the author captures the oriental ambience and idiosyncracies of his...