Tanya is a typical teenager living with her bookish professor mother in a cramped Soviet apartment. She is obsessed with Dostoyevksy, and noticing that he always portrays his mistress and muse in his novels-never his wife-she determines to become a companion to a great writer. Her opportunity comes when, as a college graduate newly emigrated to America, she attends a Manhattan bookstore reading by Mark Schneider, a Significant New York Novelist. Tanya quickly moves in with Mark, ready to dazzle in bed, to serve and inspire . . . if only he would spend a little more time writing. But as she str... View More...
Text in Spanish. Increasingly, people are realising that life was not meant to be a roller-coaster ride. Yet thats exactly what it becomes when success is defined in material terms alone. Whats the alternative? Renouncing financial good fortune is not the answer, but true prosperity means balancing business success with the overall fulfilment that makes life happy, and meaningful -- no matter what happens in high-tech, real estate, or the bond market. Kabbalah teaches that both material and spiritual prosperity are predestined, if the mind is open. True Prosperity shows how simple it is to get... View More...
A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for the elusive writer 'Alexander Wolf'. A singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death. Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.' Pushkin Collection edition... View More...
