Galloping horses in the Mexican night, a superb body reclining under the high tropical trees, blood and guitars, madness and beauty, the gnawing pain of love and death: a book one reads in a trance...--message from a used bookseller that we thought we'd pass on. One of Hoffenberg's (co-author of Candy) solo efforts for Olympia, this is a tale of Miguel, a man who learns the joys of hot-blooded Latin dominance, marijuana, and murder--pretty much in that order.

The New York Times–bestselling parody of Voltaire's Candide that was banned in France and went on to become a salacious cult classic.Candy is a perfect, idealistic, innocent girl, born on Valentine's Day, which, her daddy says, is why she's so beautiful. At college in Racine, Wisconsin, she listens earnestly to Professor Mephisto's lecture on philosophy and how "deep and aching are the needs of man"—and takes his pronouncement to heart.She w...

A darkly hilarious, wildly erotic satire of Hollywood from "the only author capable of handling mayhem on a gigantic scale" ( Esquire).King B., the world's most admired filmmaker—winner of a string of Oscars and awards from Cannes to Venice—takes on a new project: the most expensive, star-studded, high-quality, X-rated film ever made. He joins forces with producer Sid Krassman, who's made a fortune with B movies, and Angela Sterling, a mi...

The international bestselling author of the erotic classic Emmanuelle continues her "all-out one-woman crusade to liberate mankind from the sexual taboos" ( Panorama, Italy).Emmanuelle II continues the timeless story of an unforgettable woman, a happy sensualist, whose unrestrained erotic experimentation explores the boundless possibilities of sex in a novel of literary and philosophical import.The beautiful heroine's initiations ...

A satirical dream-logic journey through the dark heart of 1950s Los AngelesDr. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited by the entrancingly irritating Felix Treevly who comes to him as a patient and stays as an obsession. Prosaic incidents blossom into bizarre developments with the sharpened reality of dreams as the spectral Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of increasingly weird situations. With the assistance of a drunken private detec...

“An engrossing, suspenseful family saga filled with unpredictable twists and turns.” —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana“With an equal mix of historical fiction, dramatic family conflict, and mystery, this tale should please fans of Christina Baker Kline, Lisa Wingate, and Kate Quinn.” —BooklistThe Washington Post Books to Read Now | Ms. M...

A "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" from a Nobel Prize–winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits ( The Boston Globe).As this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened ...

Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners ...

The denizens of a rundown building in 1940s Lisbon come to sparkling life in this lost early novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness.The renowned Portuguese author Jose Saramago was at the beginning of his career when he submitted his novel Skylight for publication in 1953. It then sat lost among stacks of manuscripts for thirty-six years. Published posthumously according to Saramago's wishes, the world can finally enjoy this "fascinat...

Told in the voice of Isabel Allende’s beloved character Eva Luna, a “distinctive, powerful, and haunting” (Los Angeles Times) collection of short fiction by one of the most iconic and acclaimed writers of our time.Eva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Lying in bed with her European lover, refugee and journalist Rolf Carlé, Eva answers his request for a story “you have never told anyone before” with these twe...

New York Times bestselling author Maria Dueñas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story “destined to become a classic” (Armando Lucas Correa, bestselling author of The German Girl) about ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in Mexico, Cuba, and Spain in the 1860s—perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Kristin Hannah.Mauro Larrea’s fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event....

Padura’s best novel. Assured in pace and style. A suspenseful mystery, a cruel family saga and an ode to literature and his beloved island, all rolled into one. 2. The titles in the Havana Quartet, Havana Red, Havana Black, Havana Blue and Havana Gold were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 70,000. 3. An insiders view: Padura lives in Havana, and has written a scathing novel about Cuba to...