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A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he ... More

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Originally published in English in Great Britain in 1997 by The Harvill Press.

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Portuguese Nobel Laureate Saramago tells a fantastic tale about a city hit by an epidemic of "white blindness," in this work that is the basis for ... More

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A man is lost at sea, only to return ten years later in search of his first love. "A novel of wild, torrid and romantic love"--El Cultural. "The sea ... More

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In "Blindness, "a city is overcome by an epidemic of blindness that spares only one woman. She becomes a guide for a group of seven strangers and ... More

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'The Shipping News' is one of five classic Fourth Estate books to be released as numbered, collectable editions to mark the 25th anniversary. The ... More

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As Samuel Karnish watches his career run aground and his marriage disintegrate, he finds himself on a flight to his best friend's third wedding, ... More

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Strange Heaven is tearfully hilarious, as funny and appalling as reality. Bridget Murphy, almost eighteen, has come to Halifax from industrial Cape ... More

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Pynchon's "V". won the coveted William Faulkner Foundation's First Novel Award when it appeared in 1963, and was hailed by "Atlantic Review" as "one ... More

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'A uniquely brilliant book ...told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our ... More

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An American photographer in the war-torn Balkans struggles to rebuild his shattered life after the kidnapping of his son

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On the rooftop of a theater in an African port, Nelio, a ten-year-old boy--a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet and ... More

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Written in the 1990s by American author Steven Gould, Jumper tells the story of Davy Rice as he escapes his tortured childhood to explore the world ... More

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Martina Satriano is a successful 42-year old Italian university lecturer living in New York. She is an intellectual, attractive and a superlative ... More

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'Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's ... More

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The hero of this debut novel is David Farbman, a lawyer in Manhattan who is in debt, alienated from his wife and children, and a disappointment to ... More

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A prize-winning international bestseller, this gripping story by Francesca Duranti follows Fabrizio, an impoverished but aristocratic translator, on ... More

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When Martina Satriano flies to Italy for her mother's funeral, she has not been home in years. Now a New York City professor, Martina recalls her ... More

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Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished aristocrat who makes his living through translating, and whose cautious existence is marked by his inability to ... More

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A prize-winning international bestseller, this gripping story by Francesca Duranti follows Fabrizio, an impoverished but aristocratic translator, on ... More

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