Ficción - Literatura en otros idiomas

Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields, has his work cut out for him helping his farming relatives and convincing his lover's aristocratic parents that he deserves her hand. This prophetic,...

Ebook animated.A tiny vibrant star shoots through infinite space and crosses a mysterious and fascinating universe. Her name is Jopì.Her knowledge is vast and her gentle presence has reached all corners...

Mino, the chimney sweep, loved his job. With his black brush, he jumped fancy-free from one rooftop to another and cleaned the chimneys of the city.

A 1930s Thai romance with a Japanese setting and a political message by one of the best stylists of Siam

loverthe dollan old cloth and a tray of mackerelsthe last drop of inkAlongside Rart Eikkatheit's Three Worlds, four more samples of the work of the most imaginative and versatile Thai writer of experimental...

Children's picture books.Abe was a newcomer to the village of Greenapple. He was curious, but also very shy, so observed the villagers from a safe distance. Everything was very new to him and he thought...

"Darkening Stars - A Novel of the Great War" is about a young law student who was drafted to serve as a platoon commander in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps sent to Flanders in 1917. What happened...

The disaffected son of a Thai aristocrat goes to study law in London in the early 1920s, only to fall in love with an English journalist and become a reporter. In England, France, the US, Japan and...

Trigger a car crash and you are fair game.A laugh-aloud look at the workings of Thai society today when it comes to milking a sucker dry.But when said sucker is into advertising, isn't it tit for tat?By...

Thirteen short stories spanning a quarter century by the most incisive Thai satirist of the times

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A gritty, realistic drama set in the malevolent world of human trafficking, GREENHORN shadows Sergeant Hardwood as he tests the resolve of idealistic rookie Pam Horn who has to prove herself to her fiercely...

Malo is a disgraced police officer. Dismissed from an important murder case in his home city of Lot, he is sent to Madrid as a simple neighborhood inspector. There, he is assigned a case that he initially...

Four of these outstanding Thai short stories are published in English for the first time. The others appeared first in the Bangkok Post. All mark new trends in Thai fiction writing and deserve the...

A writer grappling with his characters – or is it the other way around? – in an impish homage to Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. Followed by 'A tale without a name', a layered short story plugged...

In this engaging satire of the British upper class, a smug young literary man from Oxford joins an international group of artists and writers on the French Riviera, intending to study them as if they...

Bea – a baby blackbird Beryl – Bea’s mother The friend – (a small role with 2 lines of dialogue) Chorus - for the final scene (no dialogue) Bea and her mother Beryl are sitting on the biggest branch...

Romance of Three Kingdoms, dating to the 14th Century, is the legendary epic of the fall of Han and the founding of Jin. Dealing with plots, complex men, wars, intrigues, marriages and assassinations,...

Berrie loves pastries, but she loves more than anything seeing how people are happy thanks to the cakes! But how could a clumsy little girl hope to become a pastry chef? In order to help her make her...

Author Stéphane Ternoise (http://www.frenchauthor.info) Translated by Kate-Marie Glover The Lion, the Ostrich and the Fox Cast: Narrator A child Lion A child Ostrich A child Fox A child Cow A child...

War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered...

"A Story About the Child of God" by Vytautas V. Landsbergis resembles a traditional classical fairy tale. The book contains a lot of easy to unterstand quotes from The Bible, interwoven into a adventure...

The united Nations exercices a worldwide responsability and, yet, too often is little known by the general public. When and why was the United Nations founded ? What are its ideals, its goals and the...

The legendary account of 108 "Stars from Heaven" who, faced with a corrupt bureaucracy, flee to Liangshan Marsh, from a fortress there thwarting minions of the evil regime while continuing to serve the...

A Shockingly Honest Book! The author of this book is a well-known TV and Hollywood actor, though not a star. Like so many homosexuals, he began life as an average, normal young man repulsed by the very...

The classic tale of the Ning and Rong families, Chinese aristocrats on the wrong side of the wheel of fate. Starring Baoyu, a character unique in literature, the young man who finds his own kind filthy,...

The first great American novel, albeit one written by a Frenchman. Chateaubriand's classic tale of Indian amours was, with Lewis' The Monk and Coleridge's opium dealer, the inspiration for all Romantic...

Cocteau's short work, published anonymously in 1928 by the author (who never admitted to writing it; just providing some pictures), was translated by Austryn Wainhouse for Olympia in the early '50s....

Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript...

Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers,...