Abril de 1901. Un barco se dirige hacia la isla de Minguer, la perla del Mediterráneo oriental. A bordo se encuentran la princesa Pakize Sultan, sobrina del sultán Abdülhamit II, y su reciente esposo, el doctor Nuri, pero también un misterioso pasajero que viaja de incógnito: el célebre inspector jefe de sanidad del Imperio otomano, encargado de confirmar los rumores de peste que han llegado hasta el continente. En las animadas calles de la...

Deĭstvie novogo romana Evgenii︠a︡ Vodolazkina razvorachivaetsi︠a︡ na Ostrove, kotorogo net na karte, no sushchestvovanie ego ne vyzyvaet somneniĭ. Ego ne naĭti v uchebnikakh po istorii, a sobytii︠a︡ -- uznavaemy do boli. Srednevekovʹe perepletaetsi︠a︡ s sovremennostʹi︠u︡, vseobshchee - s lichnym, a tragizm - s groteskom. Zdesʹ legko sosedstvui︠u︡t svetleĭshie kni︠a︡zʹi︠a︡ i predsedateli Ostrova, khronisty i...

The diary of an Englishman shipwrecked for almost thirty years on a small isolated island where, using wit and industry, he manages to build life anew.

Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, twenty-four-year-old writer John Rechy accepts an invitation to a private island from an admirer of his work. There, he joins Paul, his imposing host in his late thirties, his beautiful mistress, and his precocious teenage son. Browsing Paul's library and conversing together on the deck about literature and film during the spell of evening's "blue hour," John feels surcease, until, with unabashed candor, Paul...

Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself...

"Numa pequena ilha perdida no Atlântico, um homem procura a solidão e o esquecimento, mas acaba por encontrar muito mais. A ilha alberga criaturas singulares: um padre sonhador, de nome Elias Gro; uma menina de onze anos perita em anatomia; Alma, uma senhora com um coração maior do que a ilha; Norbert, um velho louco que tem por hábito vaguear na noite; e o fantasma de um escritor, cuja casa foi engolida pelo mar. O narrador, lacerado pelo passado,...

"Lost Island was Barbara Follett's third and last novel. It tells the story of Jane Carey, a young woman from Maine whose character and philosophy bear a striking similarity to her creator's. A lover of woods and mountains, Jane finds herself working in a dusty New York office during the early years of the Great Depression. Her job is dull, her friends are in trouble, and she yearns for adventure. She finds it in a schooner anchored in the harbor,...

During the Great War in 1916, Abigail Maduro is devastated when her parents are killed in a train accident along the Panama Canal. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to St. Thomas, an island in the Danish West Indies, to live with a bad-tempered aunt and her household of eccentric servants. To escape her aunt's overbearing protectiveness, Abby explores the lively town of Charlotte Amalie where she meets some of her more colorful characters like Judge...

"This is the first authoritative edition of one of the most significant children's books of the twentieth century. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal, Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of a young Native American girl stranded for eighteen years on San Nicolas Island, off the coast of California. In addition to the text of the original book, this special edition includes two excised chapters published here for the first time, as well as a critical...