The Mandarin is a satire on avarice published with the stories' Jose Matia's, 'The...

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Fantastical excursions into Russia's past with Tolstoy, de Stael and Stalin

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Teolinda Gersao paints an extraordinarily evocative picture of childhood in Africa and the stark ...

One novella and 6 stories dealing with identity and solitude

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Story of 2 Parisian working-class sisters at the end of the 19thc "e; A powerful and outstand...

Carlo misses his father. His parents are separated, he is with his mother in Germany while his fa...

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