Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist, has returned to Sri Lanka, a land steeped in culture and tradition, to investigate organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. This is a story of love, family, and identity, set in a country torn apart and ravaged by civil war.

Presents the story of Eva Luna where fact and fiction merge.

A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include The Joke , The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being . He has written one play, Jacques and his Master .

Discusses about the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, and the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris.

Spanning four generations, Isabel Allende's family saga is populated by an often eccentric cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature and of history, converge in a brlliantly realised novel.

A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'.