"In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to do what they want to do? Won't somebody come? Surely someone will come. The Guitar Man is a poignant monologue in which a busker sings songs to an audience that is always on the move, always passing him by. The Name (winner of the Ibsen Prize in Norway) tells the story of an estranged...

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our...

Harry. Beautiful, beautiful! “There’s music in that air.” Now take a fresh roll, and keep me company while I take another of your mother’s delicious fresh rolls. Sally. Making the sixth you have devoured before my eyes! Harry. Exactly. What a tribute to her cooking! She’s the best bred woman in the country. Her pies are miracles of skill; her rolls are rolls of honor; her golden butter is so sweet, it makes me sweet upon her. Sally. Well,...

"Don Carlos" is a historical tragedy in five acts by Friedrich Schiller; it was written between 1783 and 1787 and first produced in Hamburg in 1787. The title character is Carlos, Prince of Asturias and the play as a whole is loosely modeled on historical events in the 16th century under the reign of King Philip II of Spain. Don Carlos is a Prince of Philip II given to the Inquisition by his father – who also wants to marry his lover – for his...

The action takes place in a Belgian village, during the War of 1914. The scene is a room in the doctor’s house. On the right there is a door opening to the street, a window with red curtains, and a desk under the window. On the left there is a large cupboard with a door on either side of it, one leading to a bedroom and the other to the kitchen. At the back an open fire is burning brightly. Over the fireplace there is a reproduction in colours of...

"After witnessing her mothers gruesome murder as a child, Rain is now left piecing together the fragments of her shattered psyche as an adult. When she and her live-in siblings, Danny and Carmen, are submerged into the horrors of prostitution, drug-addiction, domestic violence, and murder, Rain is left alone to face her internal demons and find her identity, with no one to answer to, but herself."--

The second installment of the series telling the story of Sarah Hughes who badly sprains her ankle weeks into her freshman year in college. Her new boyfriend steps up and takes her into his house. He takes care of her great care of her as she struggles with mixed feelings about giving up her virginity to him. They grow closer as the injuries lingers on requiring his continued care and attention. She eventually is confronted with the fact that her...

On June 22, 1954 in a secluded part of Victoria Park in Christchurch, Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker battered Pauline's mother to death. The infamous murder, also depicted in the Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, arose from the passionate friendship of the two girls.--Provided by the publisher. --Provided by publisher.

"The story of the infant clone of Christ and his surrogate parents continue as they flee the long arm of 'The Vinces.' Rejoin them as they settle in a strange, lawless wilderness once known as The United States of America. . ."--

In the 1950s, a medicine was given to pregnant women suffering with 'morning sickness'. Whilst issued with the best of intentions, the drug had devastating consequences not only on the foetuses, but also their families.However, despite urgent worldwide warnings against the issuance of this medicine, some countries chose to ignore the warnings. The results were nothing short of horrendous and heartbreaking.Sometimes, ignorance is not bliss.The discovery...