Product Description: Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and a translator of poetry that Sándor Márai - the acclaimed author of 'Embers' and 'Conversations in Bolzano' - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and only edition of Márai's poems in the English language - here presented in John M...read more

Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially, exponentially and pretend to be someone really important and successful: God.His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers and sorting out (as almightily as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle, dying and coming back to life...

Product Description: The appearance of any new work by Tibor Fischer is a cause for celebration. Here are two dazzling new stories that show why he is so admired. The first, Crushed Mexican Spiders, is classic Fischer. Don't be fooled by the title: the poet laureate of London grime is on home ground as a women returns home to discover the key to her Brixton flat no longer works...read more

Product Description: Tyndale Corbett, agente comercial en paro, cuarenton divorciado y sin dinero, suplanta por unos dias a un amigo que no desea participar en una convencion de agentes comerciales en Miami. Tras viajar a esta ciudad y salir airoso del encuentro, Tyndale, deslumbrado por los hoteles de lujo, la diversion facil y unas vagas intuiciones de enriquecimiento rapido, decide acabar con su cochambrosa mediocridad y aspirar alto, muy alto: de hecho, decide ser Dios...read more

Product Description: Book by Fischer, Tibor

A successful computer graphics designer and former erotic dancer, Oceane satisfies her yearning for travel by bringing the world into her South London flat via courier, satellite, the Internet, radio, and other travelers, until she receives a letter from an ex who died a decade earlier. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Book by Fischer, Tibor

A collection of inventive, hilarious, and utterly contemporary tales offers a vision of the new Europe and the desperate lives of fashionable youth, a world where the slow, sensitive, and weak are exploited or simply left in the dust. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Follows two young Hungarian basketball players, Pataki and Gyuri, from the last years of World War II through the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956, as they search for food, lodging, and female companionship. Reprint.

A collection of inventive, hilarious, and utterly contemporary tales offers a vision of the new Europe and the desperate lives of fashionable youth, a world where the slow, sensitive, and weak are exploited or simply left in the dust. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

An ancient Sumerian bowl becomes the narrator of a comic novel about a young London art appraiser, Rosa, whose apartment is gradually taken over by an uninvited houseguest, a sex-addicted kleptomaniac named Nikki

Follows two young Hungarian basketball players from the last years of World War II through the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956

Inspired by the great works of human philosophy, a washed-up, middle-aged British philosopher teams up with an incompetent, one-armed bank robber to plan the ultimate bank heist. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT.