«Una storia cruda, ma a tratti anche ironica, di solidarietà femminile, schiavitù e sesso che trascina il lettore in uno dei vicoli più spietati del tardo impero romano, per scoprire che anche qui sopravvivono tenerezza e amore. Un romanzo dei tempi antichi per i nostri tempi moderni. Ed è splendido, di una potenza travolgente.»Jim Crace«Hynes, usando la penna come una carrellata cinematografica, ci fa vedere tutto le strade, i mercati, le abita...

Kevin Quinn is a standard-variety American male: middle-aged, liberal-leaning, self-centered, emotionally damaged, generally determined to avoid both pain and responsibility. As his relationship with his girlfriend approaches a turning point, and his career seems increasingly pointless, he decides to secretly fly to a job interview in Austin, Texas. Aboard the plane, Kevin is simultaneously attracted to the young woman in the seat next to him and panicked by a new wave of terrorism in Euro...

»Niemand weiß, wer ich bin, am allerwenigsten ich selbst.«Ein alter Mann blickt zurück auf seine oft unmenschliche Kindheit: Als namenloser Waise wächst er in einem Bordell inmitten der sogenannten "Wölfinnen" im spanischen Carthago Nova im 4. Jahrhundert n. Chr. auf. Eine von ihnen, Euterpe, wird seine Ziehmutter: "Sperling" nennt sie ihn liebevoll. Sperling weiß nicht viel von der Welt: Anfangs hilft er Euterpes geheimer Geliebten in der Küche, später schuftet er...

Élevé dans un bordel à l'extrémité d'un empire mourant, un garçon d'origine inconnue forge sa propre identité : il s'appellera Moineau.Son univers se compose d'une cuisine, d'une taverne menaçante et de l'étage mystérieux où les louves, le groupe de cinq femmes qui l'élève, divertissent leurs clients. Dans une société où seuls quelques privilégiés jouissent de la liberté, la vie de Moineau est cruelle et violente.Mais les choses vont bientôt changer. Dans un empire déliquesce...

The acclaimed author of Sparrow follows a former academic down the rabbit hole of temp work in a "hilarious supernatural sendup of office life" ( Publishers Weekly ).Paul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-no...

**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERTold from the perspective of an enslaved boy being raised in a Roman brothel, a stunning literary historical novel of identity, family, suffering, and freedom**In a brothel on the Spanish coast during the waning years of the Roman Empire, a young enslaved boy of unknown parentage is growing up. His world is a kitchen, then an herb-scented garden, followed by a loud and dangerous tavern, and finally, the mysterious upstairs where the “wolves” do the...

After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership.Into Jimmy's turbulent world come two young Americans: Brian, vain, ironic, but well-meaning; and Clare, a beautiful, earnest college student. In Ireland on an errand for his Irish Republican family in Detroit, Brian is recruited to Jim...

The author of Publish and Perish returns with a Faustian tale of the horrors of academeNelson Humbolt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach the finger, but when the bandages come off, Nelson realizes that he has acquired a strange power--he can force his will ...

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the YearCombining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia—a world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated ideological position," and poetic justice is served with an ideological twist.

In a brothel on the Spanish coast during the waning years of the Roman Empire, a young enslaved boy of unknown parentage is growing up. His world is a kitchen, then an herb-scented garden, followed by a loud and dangerous tavern, and, finally, the mysterious upstairs where the “wolves” do their business. The wolves, named after the muses and coming from across the vast empire, are Sparrow’s surrogate family. They are his mothers and his sisters, his guides in a rough life, his solace from ...

James Hynes is the author of three New York Times Notable Books of the Year. That same publication praises Kings of Infinite Space as "unspeakably funny!" This off-beat novel satirizes an experience ubiquitous to modern times- office life. With a defeated sigh, ex-college professor Paul Trilby faces the downward spiral that is his existence. After his wife and three subsequent girlfriends dump him, and he loses just as many jobs, he's sure he's a pawn in some vast conspiracy. Worse still, ...

This set of novellas from Austin, Texas resident James Hynes was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. As chilling as the best of Edgar Allan Poe and bursting with fiendish humor, Publish and Perish features three tales from the not-so-hallowed halls of academia. Hailed as a "delightful collection of the ghostly and the ghastly" by the Austin Chronicle, these stories are brought to wicked life by Adam Grupper. "Witty and penetrating: Hynes...