Continuing Tavares’s award-winning “Kingdom” series (begun in Jerusalem, winner of the Saramago Prize), Joseph Walser’s Machine recounts a life of bizarre routines and patterns. Routine humiliation at
One morning late in May, between three and six A.M., a group of lonely men and women wait to be brought together, like the elements in an equation. Ernst Spengler is about to throw himself out his wi
In a city not quite of any particular era, a distant and calculating man named Lenz Buchmann works as a surgeon, treating his patients as little more than equations to be solved: life and death no mor
A Voyage to India is a mental journey as well as a physical one. It relates the experiences the protagonist, Bloom, has on his way to India and back to Portugual. Written in easily accessible language
The first great work in Europe by one of the most acclaimed contemporary architects, the Brazilian Paulo Mendes de Rocha, Golden Lion by the Venice Biennale 2016 and the Pritzker Prize in 2006. It is
