Los cuentos reunidos de la gran heredera de Henry James.«Peleo con cada frase, sílaba a sílaba. Bien mirado, escribir es en el fondo un acto de valor.»Cynthia OzickAl hablar de la condición humana se...

Gran admiradora de Henry James, Cynthia Ozick rinde aquí su particular homenaje al autor de Los embajadores con una novela donde el talento está en los detalles.Una mujer de mediana edad parece andar...

Una magnífica edición ilustrada de una pieza imprescindible de la narrativa del siglo XX: El chal de la candidata al premio Nobel de Literatura Cynthia Ozick, con prólogo de Berta Vias Mahou.Un trapo...

« Il découvrit qu’il n’était pas un découvreur – à la fois trop misérable et trop rusé pour les étoiles. » Enfant, Joseph Brill s’était cru promis aux plus hauts mérites. Il se voyait enseigner aux générations...

« Je m’appelle Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, et j’écris, en ce 30 avril 1949, sur ordre des membres du conseil d’administration de l’Académie du Temple-école de garçons. »L’école a fermé ses portes depuis longtemps....

Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her powersIt is the stories upon which Cynthia Ozick's literary reputation rests. She writes about bitterness, cruelty and...

'A writer innately drawn to paradox, and to the moral questions inherent in the relationships between richness and poverty, mind and body, history and imagination' Ali Smith'As cunning and rich as anything...

Masterly American novelist at the height of her powers with a 1930s story inspired by the real-life Christopher Robin.In the outskirts of the Bronx in 1930s New York, the Mitwisser clan are German refugees...

Two masterful short stories: one depicts the horrors of the Holocaust, the other the lifetime of emptiness that pursues a 'survivor' - by a Pulitzer Prize finalistThe Shawl is considered a modern classic...

In her sixth novel, Cynthia Ozick retells the story of Henry James’s The Ambassadors as a photographic negative, retaining the plot but reversing the meaning. Foreign Bodies transforms Henry James’s prototype...

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012, Foreign Bodies is a dazzling and profound exploration of the human face of the central relationship in the last century: that between the old world and...

Money and conscience are at the heart of Cynthia Ozick's masterly first novel, narrated by a nameless young woman and set in the private world of wealthy New York, the dire landscape of postwar Europe,...

From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, who's been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, the Man Booker International Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction comes the brilliant novel...

Art & Ardor was the first of Cynthia Ozick's collections of her non-fiction pieces, and covers the longest span (1968 to 1983) of the now seven volumes. First printed in a variety of publications,...

Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental; her love life is minimal. And her most idle fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true. She yearns for a daughter and promptly...

If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared - if all we had were reviews that treated books like any other commodity - could the novel survive? In a gauntlet-throwing essay at the start of...

One of America's foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has won praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, historical, and moral issues. In her spirited essay collection The...

From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes this collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul...

From one of America's great literary figures, a collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and...

In this collection of essays, Cynthia Ozick, everywhere acclaimed as a critic, novelist, and storyteller, examines some of the world's most illustrious writers and their work, tackles compelling contemporary...

Un camp de concentration nazi. Rosa protège Magda, son bébé, dans les plis d'un châle. Mais la petite fille sort du nid. Un garde l'aperçoit. Il la prend sur son épaule, puis la jette sur les barbelés...