A Bard book

a good Brazilian story about a woman named Dona flor. her first husband named vadindo died in Carnival and next she married again but her dead husband always show to provocate her.

As a child Alec, heir to the big house and only son of a bitter marriage, formed a close friendship with Jerry, a village boy who shared his passion for horses. In 1914 both enlisted in the British Army - Alec goaded by his beautiful, cold mother to fight for King and Country, Jerry to learn his trade for the Irish Nationalist cause. But amid the mud of Flanders, their relationship is tested by an ordeal beyond the horror of the battlefield.

Spanning a dizzying host of genres, from cinema to academia to mythology, Mumbo Jumbo is a lively ride through a key decade of American history the 1920's. In addition to ragtime, blues, and jazz, Reed's allegory draws on the Harlem Renaissance, the Back to Africa movement, and America's occupation of Haiti. His style throughout is as avant-garde and vibrant as the music at its center. From New Orleans to Chicago to New York, the "Jes Grew" epidemic makes people desperate to dance, overturning social norms in the process.

Two discarded toy mice survive perilous adventures in a hostile world before finding security and happiness with old friends and new.

"Prater Violet is... about the film industry. It centres around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter - the fictionalised Christopher Isherwood.'--Publisher description.

The Memorial is a 1932 English novel by author Christopher Isherwood. The novel tells the story of an English family's disintegration in the days following World War I. Isherwood's second published novel, this is the first of his works for which he adapted his own life experiences into his fiction.

Tres tristes tigres, la historia de tres amigos en una juerga desenfrenada por los clubes nocturnos, salas de música, barrios marginales y demás submundo habanero en los años previos a Castro, es la mayor obra literaria de Cabrera Infante. Repleta de cambios de estilo, juegos de palabras y ritmos, a medio camino entre Borges y García Márquez, y Joyce y Kafka, su autor manifestó que «está escrita en cubano». Ganadora del Premio Biblioteca Breve, de la editorial Seix Barral, en 1964, fue publicada por primera vez en 1967, en una versión reescrita por motivos de censura. Vetada por Castro en Cuba, la novela apareció en el periodo de auge del boom latinoamericano y es considerada una de las más imortantes de las letras hispanoamericanas.

In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx with a range of human foibles, Lem offers a wonderful vision of the audacity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that can give humans the courage to confront outer space.

"Two English brothers meet, after a long separation, in India. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother, prepares to take his final vows as a Hindu monk. Patrick, a successful publisher with a wife and children in London and a male lover in California, has publicly admired his brother's convictions while privately criticizing his choices. First published in 1967, A Meeting by the River delicately depicts the complexity of sibling relationships - the resentment and competitiveness as well as the love and respect."--BOOK JACKET.