Product Description: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing...read more

Offers advice on starting a reading group and provides book lists for such genres as mysteries, science fiction, Jewish stories, biographies, and nineteenth-century novels (view table of contents)

In eighteenth-century Portugal, fifty thousand laborers carry stones on their backs across mountains to build the king's convent, a heretical priest devises a magic flying machine--the Passarola--and two lovers' dream of flight sets them apart

Living the innocent life of a proofreader, Raimundo Silva changes a key word in a history text that leads him to romance and alters the course of European history

'Translations of chronicles first published between 1967-73 in Lispector's weekly column for Jornal do Brasil and representing about two-thirds of the volume A descoberta do mundo (HLAS 48:6221). That work was translated by Pontiero under title Discovering the world (HLAS 54:5084)'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/A collection of 156 columns originally published in the Jornal do Brasil during the author's stint as a columnist includes interviews, stories, essays, and observances

In a mythic adventure and political fable about the contemporary European community, the Iberian peninsula detaches from the Continent and floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans

A young boy becomes friends with the artist in the apartment upstairs and tries hard to understand when his friend commits suicide

Features a guide to Utah's natural wonders and national parks as well as providing information on outdoor adventures and great places to stay and eat

Triclinio, a violinist in search of work, migrates to Buenos Aires, where the political convulsions, coups, tanks, and tear gas all threaten to drown out any music he might make

Product Description: This new biography of the Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) traces her progress from obscurity to international acclaim as one of the most charismatic and influential actresses of her generation. A true pioneer in the theatre, Duse perfected an introspective style of acting which left critics and audiences spellbound...read more

Tells the stories of a fearful adolescent, an angry old woman, a dog's burial, a possessive mother and her son, a businessman's dinner, and a French explorer in Africa