The Mistress of Spices

After traveling hundreds of miles, a woman must wait another twenty-four hours before she can get an abortion.

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding...

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a...

Stoica, a poor man from a small village, asks for Călifar's help to make him rich. Călifar deceives him, offering him only a vision which...

Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a...

The employee of a pharmaceutical company and lover of the managing director should provide for the medical release of a new contraceptive pill with...

The out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.

A radio compere is forced to take the late shift and finds her night going places she couldn't have imagined.

The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s.

Four years after a military coup overthrew the Brazilian government in 1964, all civil rights were suspended and torture became a systematic...