Product Description: Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women―and he can't make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury...read more

Product Description: Nature is the central source of inspiration for this young Brazilian painter, whose beautiful pastel-toned works on canvas, paper and installation walls are filled with leaves, rocks, sky and especially trees--whether along the rivers of Germany, in American parks or along the beach at Recife...read more

A picture book about moving home for all the family.

Product Description: Los personajes del nuevo libro de Peter Stamm vienen de lugares muy distintos. Viven solos, en pareja o con la familia, tienen hijos o no quieren tenerlos. Los hay que son viejos y los hay que son jóvenes, los hay que ni una cosa ni otra, o ambas a la vez...read more

A latest collection of short works by the author of Unformed Landscape features main characters caught in the banalities of everyday life, from a cowherd-turned-stuntsman who crosses the country in the hopes of meeting a woman, to a widowed mother of grown children who rediscovers the world.

Unformed Landscape begins in a small village on a fjord in the Finnmark, on the northeastern coast of Norway, where the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia lie covered in snow and darkness, where the real borders are between day and night, summer and winter, and between people. Here, a sensitive young woman like Kathrine finds few outlets for her desires. Half Norwegian, half Sami (an indigenous people), Kathrine works for the customs office inspecting the fishing boats arriving regularly in the harbor. She is in her late 20s, has a son from an early marriage, and has drifted into a second loveless marriage to a man whose cold and dominating conventionality forms a bold stroke through the unformed landscape of her life. After she makes a discovery about her husband that deeply wounds her, Kathrine cuts loose from her moorings and her confusion and sets off in search of herself.Her journey begins aboard a ship headed south, taking her below the Arctic Circle for the first time in her life. Kathrine makes her way to France and has the bittersweet experience of a love affair that flares and dies quickly, her starved senses rewarded by the shimmering beauty of Paris. Through a series of poignant encounters, Kathrine is led to the richer life she was meant to have and is brave enough to claim.Using simple words strung together in a melodic alphabet, Peter Stamm introduces us, through a series of intimate sketches, to the heart of an unforgettable woman. Her story speaks eloquently about solitude, the fragility of love, lost illusions, and self-discovery.