Dan Jacobson je prozaik, poviedkar, kritik a esejista, ktorého rané diela sa zameriavali na juhoafrické témy. Neskôr sa jeho tvorba rozšírila o fantasy, fiktívne spracovanie historických udalostí, pamäti, kritické eseje a cestopisy. Jeho štýl je charakteristický hlbokým vhľadom do ľudskej psychiky a spoločenských otázok, často s nádychom irónie a intelektuálnej bystrosti. Jacobsonovo dielo skúma témy identity, pamäti a stretu kultúr, pričom si zachováva jedinečnú naratívnu silu a precízny jazyk.
Celia Dinan died some two hundred years ago – back in the twenty-first century. As her life is rediscovered it becomes apparent that she is the author of a powerful and passionate tale – a tale which only she could have written but which 'everywoman' will painfully acknowledge as her own.
Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s, Isaac Bashevis Singer's second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a man's flight from love. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
From the author of "The Confessions of Josef Baisz", this concerns the desire to possess and the desire to be free. A student falls in love with Diana, a woman much older than himself; a younger woman falls in love with him. Haunting them all is the presence of Diana's husband, a well-known poet.
