Metaphysical & Visionary

How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything. In a city graveyard, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves....

In Dust, Bear skillfully spins a classic science fiction trope - the lost generation ship - into a complex and compelling tale of fallen angels, secretive family politics, and sexual taboo....

When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months, she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men....

Max Pzoras is the poster child for the American dream. The child of Greek immigrants who grew up in a dangerous New York housing project, he triumphed over his upbringing....

After living in the city of Orphalese for 12 years, a prophet is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a seeress and the people of the city, who ask him for his insights into life....

It is a perfect spring day in Istanbul. Kemal, a wealthy heir, is about to become engaged to the aristocratic Sibel when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shop girl....

In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks....

After the death of his estranged father, Amit takes his parent's ashes to the Ganges to fulfill a deathbed promise. Instead of returning home, he wanders....

Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac’s visionary novel races from the world of 19th-century science to an ultra-surveilled near future, exploring humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, and leaping forward to the next steps in human evolution....

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels....

Heavily critical not only of Christian values but also of their modern replacements, Thus Spoke Zarathustra argues for a new value-system based around the prophecy of the Ubermensch....

Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present....

In a remote, Himalayan monastery, Matt Lester has devoted five years of spiritual preparation for this moment: it is his destiny to open an ancient, sealed scroll containing prophetic wisdom the world urgently needs. But when his time comes, violent assailants steal the scroll. Matt is caught up in a dangerous, high-stakes hunt to recover it, turning him from the pursuer to the pursued. On the other side of the world, the results of scientist Alice Weisenstein’s mind-body healing research are about to be revealed. 

Una legione di spiriti diabolici, malvagi, virtuosi, paranoici e sexy contro il conformismo del Megaconcerto di Beneficenza e la violenza dei signori della guerra. Non si sa chi vincerà, ma come dice Stan Hakaleimekalahani "ci sarà gran piagnanza e gran ridanza".

En plaçant les différents récits rassemblés dans ce volume sous le signe du tantrisme, Alain Daniélou dévoile un nouvel aspect de l'Inde : le monde des Sadhous et des Sannyasis, un univers ésotérique et fantasmagorique, mélange d'érotisme, de magie noire, d'envoûtement et de sacrifices humains... Les pratiques tantriques ne sont pas sans danger.

In una notte rubata a una vita senza scosse, Emma ricerca la poesia nella passione di un abbraccio con il suo amante, vivendo la sua avventura ignara delle conseguenze cui il destino la metterà di fronte. Con una prosa modulata alla perfezione sulle emozioni e i sentimenti dei protagonisti, Arthur Schnitzler, alter-ego letterario di Sigmund Freud e autore del racconto "Doppio Sogno" che ha ispirato "Eyes Wide Shut" di Stanley Kubrick, ci mette davanti a un dramma umano fatto di egoismi, frustrazioni e banalità di una vita senza direzione.

Удивительно теплый, добрый и светлый рассказ Николая Дмитриевича Телешова о том, что хотя бы раз в году каждый из нас может ненадолго стать самым настоящим волшебником и подарить праздник, сказку и радость другим людям.

В "Воздушных путях" впервые были показаны основные особенности пастернаковской прозы: внешним событиям внимание почти не уделяется, все главное происходит на втором, метафизическом уровне, на "воздушных путях". "Воздушные пути" - манифест новой прозаической манеры, ключ к метафизическому реализму.