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In 1983 a visit from a friend and her baby Tshakua, from their home in Rwanda, changes Therese Muanini's life in Paris irrevocably. Her friend dies suddenly from AIDS, and the boy Therese adopts as her own is diagnosed as HIV positive. Therese has to look after the boy and try to keep her job. Forced to leave her apartment, she finds herself alone and destitute, with nowhere to live, no money, and a child whose condition fills some people with fear. This book is the story of how Therese has forged a life for herself and Tshakua.

Product Description: At the core of A Russian Mother lies the profound ambivalence of two people who are chillingly remote yet obsessively attached. This painful symbiosis between a mother and son takes shape in fragments, as the narrative jumps back and forth in time until the late1970s...read more

An experimental, allegorical novel that centers around the appearance of wolves in the European seaside resort town of Santa Vavara, and the disappearances and metamorphoses that occur as a result

Product Description: A visionary diagnosis and critique of the modern social and political orders, THE TRUE WORLDS offers a realistic framework for a new world free from war and the inequiities of weath and power.

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A memoir by the author of The Lover and Summer Rain describes her relationship with a man thirty years her junior who has helped her overcome, despair, illness, and alcoholism.

A corrupt police chief refuses to relinquish his belief in the dream of Confucius as he battles against any force to fulfill a prophecy in war-torn China in the third century B.C.

Will, a mysogynist American journalist-turned-novelist, carries on erotic encounters with women during globe-trotting stints, all the while suspecting their entire gender of staging a genetic revolution to restore cultural matriarchy