A fifty-year epic follows the lives of the residents of the Greek island Cephallonia, exploring their peaceful, remote experiences before the onset of the Second World War. Reissue. 150,000 first printing. (A Universal/Miramax film en...

As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics—a retired colonel who has eschewed c...

Farce meets tragedy when the sadistic Cardinal Guzman launches a savage Inquisition and confronts Cochadebajo's population of ex-guerrillas, quasi-reformed prostitutes, and the corpulent ghost of Thomas Aquinas. Reprint. 25,000 first ...

When the arrogant Dona Constanza diverts a river to fill her swimming pool, a full-blown war erupts between local peasants, who need the water to irrigate their crops and are led by the dissolute Don Emmanuel, and brutal soldiers. Rep...

A young philosophy professor becomes a national hero when he dares to denounce his South American country's cocaine mafia, whose attempts to assassinate him backfire with supernatural regularity. By the author of Corelli's Mandolin. R...

In a small town in Anatolia in the finals days of the Ottoman Empire, the lives of its inhabitants--Armenians, Christians, and Muslims--peacefully intertwine, until Mustafa Kemal, a powerful military leader, conscripts the young men o...

The Edwardian era has just begun, and in the idyllic countryside outside of London, young Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up inseparable from their neighbors, the two Pitt brothers and the three Pendennis boys. But twel...