Camilo is a middle-class boy growing up in the sweltering suburbs of 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during Brazil’s often brutal military dictatorship. Disabled by monoparesis, he lives a sheltered life under the blistering sun, rarely venturing beyond his own...
In 18th century France, the choices for a young black woman of modest means are slim. Véronique Clair loves her parents and their small home in the countryside of Burgundy but dreams of using her talent for sewing and...
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with liquid gold, thereby highlighting and celebrating the object’s past. In this powerful and personal novel, Senka Maric uses kintsugi as a lens through which to interrogate ideas of illness...
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants’ office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But...
Spyri forever lives in the past, haunted by old memories. This summer, she meets a man she once loved, and he is about to change everything… Spyri, a half-Greek restauranteur in her early thirties, is back on the island...
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