A family of three generations is guided through their last hours. With fear, loathing and existential guilt all present in the perverse relationships, can Everyman realign these individuals so warped and deranged?Bizarre and fun yet hideously confronting, Everyman and the Pole Dancers by Lech Mackiewicz is an absurdist comedy that embraces theatre as an ever transforming form of art and the play as a living being.

'Unacceptable, foul, disastrous, inappropriate, or awkward: Not a Good Look!'An absurdist portrait of modern Australian life, NaGL uses the conventions of clowning, vaudeville, Brecht and Dadaism and delivers a buoyant, uncharmed appraisal of a nation.Old Uncle Chuck rings the bell and in 22 boxing rounds, a family battles it out. With clatter and clutter, they are always divided and united. It's our family. It's our nation. It's not a good look ... but lo...

Finalist for the 2012 National Book AwardA Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012Finalist for the 2012 Story PrizeChosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more...**"Electrifying." –The New York Times Book Review“Exhibits the potent ble...

A New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Chicago Sun-Times Favorite Book of the Year“A revelation…This is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on autoload.” —Stephen KingFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Force, City on Fire, and The Power of the Dog comes a captivating combination of true crime and suspense that reveals the cost of one amazing h...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “stunning” (America Ferrera) YA novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home.“Alive and crackling—a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. ”—The New York TimesPerfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after...

Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on this adventure packed with mystery and friendship! The Thea Sisters are visiting friends at a lively festival in Spain. But the theft of a precious fan turns their trip into an investigation! They end up hot on the trail of a secret treasure . . . but they're not the only ones searching for it. Can the mouselets solve the mystery in time? It's a mission full of flamenco dance!

Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo’s dictatorship.Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behin...

**A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE”“A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent…[Chilean Poet]broadens the author’s scope and quite likely his international reputation.” —Los Angeles Times“Zambra [is] one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation.” —The New York Review of Books

Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend shows up to ask him why he left the gang, Rosario realizes he was fooling himself if he thought his violent past would just go away. When his pregnant girlfriend is hit in a drive-by shooting, Rosario has to make some hard choices. Revenge means a return to h...

"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"—José Saramago, Nobel Prize winnerThe English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves!“Piñeiro’s clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.”—Publishers Weekly“Piñeiro is particularly skilful at exposing the social forces undermin...

Pablo Borla's marriage is reduced to confrontations with his wife over their daughter's rebellious ways and his firm builds only repellent office blocks destroying the fabric of old Buenos Aires. It all changes with the arrival of a young woman who brings to light a murder committed decades ago by those in his office. A murder everyone assumed was forgotten.Claudia Piñeiro, after working as a professional accountant, became a journalist, playwright and television s...

Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she's danced across the world, from Auckland to Edinburgh, from Berlin to Buenos Aires, putting in hours of practice for fleeting moments of dance-floor ecstasy, suffering blisters and heart-break along the way. Here, in sparkling, spring-heeled prose, Kapka takes us inside the esoteric world of tango to tell the story o...