Results for: books tagged ‘Human Condition’
After the Rain: John Bowen
First published in 1958 After the Rain was described by Angus Wilson as a 'cataclysmic novel ... as exciting as any deluge you can hope to find; but if you ... More
The Blind Eye: Don Paterson
Don Paterson's second collection of aphorism refines the blackly witty style he introduced in The Book of Shadows, and draws the reader more deeply into the volatile side of the ... More
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Milan Kundera
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, ... More
Book of Matches: Simon Armitage
'A firework display of technique, versatility and passion.' Independent on Sunday'The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice concisely expresses common concerns, is everything ... More
The Brown Parrots of Providencia: Fergus Allen
Fergus Allen's work ranges broadly from sombre reflections on the loneliness and bestiality of human experience, through small fictional psychodramas, to light-hearted fantasy, as in his unexpected poem about Guinness's ... More
The Coast of Utopia Trilogy: Tom Stoppard
The Coast of Utopia is an epic but also intimate drama of romantics and revolutionaries in an age of emperors. The three sequential, self-contained plays - Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage ... More
Decalogue: The Ten Commandments: Krzystof Kieslowski
Ten short films, each based on a broken commandment, set in and around an apartment block in Warsaw. The stories are simple, describing experiences and emotions common to us all ... More
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories: Ivan Turgenev
‘That night I went home to my lodgings in a state of perfect ecstasy ... I felt supremely happy, and was already making all sorts of plans in my head. ... More
Farewell Waltz: Milan Kundera
Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided ... More
A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the ... More
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