Once Upon a Time — a Floating Opera South America Brandão is relentlessly harsh and

Brandão is relentlessly harsh and raw

La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and

blending social realism with lush modernist experiment

First published by Random House in 1980

Haïlji was born in Kyŏngju in 1955

Once Upon a Time — a Floating Opera South America Brandão is relentlessly harsh andA celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer New York Times A celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer [It is] brilliantly conceived, elegantly written, bursting with life, profound in its understanding, bawdy and funny, and comic in the wisest and best sense of the word. New York Times John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a