World Literature
Offside
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
?Does for modern Barcelona what Dickens did for 19th-Century London? Total Football ?Like Get Shorty with tapas bars? Offside
Lust
Elfriede Jelinek
Sport, capitalism, male penetrative sexuality, bourgeois consumerism, the family – are pilloried in between the ceaseless rapes, buggeries and other a…
Wonderful, Wonderful Times
Elfriede Jelinek
A dozen years after the collapse of the Third Reich, four adolescents commit a gratuitously violent assault and robbery in a Viennese park. So begins…
Count Julian
Juan Goytisolo
This wicked, passionate and extremely funny book can be read as Goytisolo's farewell to the priests, generals and sanctimonious moralizers who rul…
Tea in the Harem
Mehdi Charef
Charef describes everyday hurts and bruises as if they were distinctive characteristics of the human condition. This unadorned voice goes straight to…