"In its unflnching examination of the terrors of the human soul, this homely narrative I begin today may well prove the equal of any I have yet penned."So wrote the dying Edgar Allan Poe in the preface...

"I just killed someone, but I'm not a murderer" Vodoun -- to Americans who know it as voodoo, the religion is an exotic superstition; to a Haitian, a way of life, the source of hope, fear and power.  But...

In 1988, after a brief but devastating war, the United States has occupied the Soviet Union.  The Gulags are empty, the KGB has been dissolved.  Ex-CIA agent and private investigator DEAN JOPLIN, sardonic,...

Included in The Guardian's one thousand novels to read before you die.It is a baroque masterpiece.

A baroque restaurant novel which merges cannibalism with Platonism

A Jungian box of tricks where nothing is what it seems.   The young hero awakes to find himself on a train with Dr Freud from Vienna and the sadistic train attendant Malkowitz. He allows himself...