The Memory of Elephants

Boman Desai

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Spurned by his first love, Homi Seervai, the Parsi genius from Bombay, creates a machine that lets him scan his brain for memories of the time he spen... Lees meer

Golk

Richard Stern

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• In midcentury America, the golden age of television, a man named Golk is wreaking havoc with the medium. Through a devastating series of exposures-"Yo... Lees meer

Fires

Marguerite Yourcenar

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures who... Lees meer

The Young Lions

Irwin Shaw

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• This novel portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Using the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American ... Lees meer

Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud

Michael Bess

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Two world wars, concentration camps, the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and continued preparations for nuclear war illustrate the modern worl... Lees meer

The Fire-Dwellers

Margaret Laurence

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Convinced that life has more to offer than the tedious routine of her days, Stacey MacAindra yearns to recover some of the passion of her early romanc... Lees meer

In the Days of Simon Stern

Arthur A Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Nathan, a blind Jewish scribe, tells the story of the coming of the Messiah in the person of one Simon Stern--from his birth on the Lower East Side, t... Lees meer

Acts of Theft

Arthur A Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• An astonishing, soaring and seizing novel that means no less than to explain human culture. A detective story with a real detective and a real thief--... Lees meer

McKay's Bees

Thomas McMahon

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855, with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raisin... Lees meer

Investment in Women's Human Capital

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• How are human capital investments allocated between women and men? What are the returns to investments in women's nutrition, health care, education, m... Lees meer

A Dog's Head

Jean Dutourd

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Jean Dutourd's A Dog's Head is a wonderful piece of magical realism, reminiscent of Voltaire, Borges and Kafka. With biting wit, Dutourd presents the ... Lees meer

The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.

George Steiner

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Imagine, thirty years after the end of World War II, Israeli Nazi-hunters, some of whom lost relatives in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, find a sil... Lees meer

Fiela's Child

Dalene Matthee

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she... Lees meer

The Use of Riches

J I M Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Art is very much part of Rupert Craine's life. He is a banker and country squire, but also a connoisseur and collector of art. His beautiful and wealt... Lees meer

Somebody Else's Life

Morris Philipson

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Stephen Cooper, a middle-aged university professor who is suddenly utterly bored by his life, plots an intricate scheme with his lover. They arrange a... Lees meer

Secret Understandings

Morris Philipson

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• This is a portrait of Shelagh Jackman, a book illustrator who learns to cultivate the loving and complex relationships in her life while struggling to... Lees meer

Through Streets Broad and Narrow

Gabriel Fielding

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• In this sequel to the acclaimed In the Time of Greenbloom , John Blaydon runs head on into the paradox of Ireland, attempts to solve it single-handed ... Lees meer

The Pistol

James Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• As bombs begin to fall on Pearl Harbor, 19 year old PFC Richard Mask is wearing a pistol that makes him feel connected to the army of the Wild West an... Lees meer

The Conquerors

André Malraux

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• The Conquerors describes the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communists in the Cantonese revolution of the 1920s. It is both an exciting war s... Lees meer

Accident

Christa Wolf

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• An East German writer, awaiting a call from the hospital where her brother is undergoing brain surgery, instead receives news of a massive nuclear acc... Lees meer

Short Stories: Five Decades

Irwin Shaw

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• This volume features 63 short stories spanning five decades including "Girls in their Summer Dresses", "Sailor Off the Bremen" and "The Eighty-Yard Ru... Lees meer

The Best of Jackson Payne

Jack Fuller

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• When Charles Quinlan, an academic obsessed with jazz, starts exploring the life and death of Jackson Payne, a fictional tenor-sax player, he can't ima... Lees meer

Two Lives and a Dream

Marguerite Yourcenar

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, "An Obscure Man" is the story of Nathanaël--innocent, open to experience--born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In... Lees meer

The Past Leads a Life of Its Own

Wayne Fields

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Fiction
• The Past Leads a Life of Its Own is a compelling collection of stories centered around one boy's childhood in the rural midwest in the 1950s, his love... Lees meer