The hotel Waldhaus in the Swiss mountain village of Waltenberg is central to the action of this epic novel, which takes placein Europe from World War Ito the collapse of the Soviet Union. Here isthe story of the love between Hans Kappler, a German no...
London between the wars was a place of anxiety and uncertainty. After the postwar boom of the 1920s, the aftereffects of the stock market crash hit London, and, even as the fortunes of the aristocracy went into decline, there was hunger and a rising ...
The eagerly awaited English translation of Kaddour’s award-winning novel of clashing cultures during the French colonial years Gather together French colonialists, young nationalists eager for independence, and local Maghreb leaders in a small Nort...