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From one of our most heralded writers--Joy Williams belongs, James Salter has written, "in the company of Céline, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood"--her first novel ...
American readers were introduced to the award-winning Sudanese author Leila Aboulela with "Minaret," a delicate tale of a privileged young African Muslim woman adjusting t...
Debendranath Roy, presumed dead, leaves behind a pale, languishing wife and a mystery that takes 20 years to unfold. His hidden passion for his brother's wife, his own wif...
Punchy, acerbic, sharp-witted, and above-all, acutely observed, this novel tells the story of an ordinary family who are all trying to escape from something—and each other...
Collects seventeen stories in which a man discovers that his neighbors may not be who they say they are, a disgruntled customer confronts a shopping channel presenter, and...
The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind - to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend.
John, a wary 15-year-old born in Canada but raised in California by a neglectful father, finds solace in a relationship with the new girl in town. Their romantic world is ...
Abandoned at birth and shuttled among foster homes, Nikki Black decides at twenty-eight to seek out her birth mother, intent on killing her. Nikki’s vengeance takes her to...
Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man.
Roop is a ...
A rich, dark novel of buried secrets, new desires and a new land from the bestselling author of THE ACTRESSES A novel of 50s New Zealand, as haunting and evocative as HEAV...
When she is five years old, Lili, the narrator of this epic and magical tale, watches her mother, Roxanna the Angel, throw herself off the balcony of their house on the Av...
It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, 20 years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a ...
The astonishing Orange Prize-shortlisted debut from the author of ‘Flying Leap’ and ‘Nice Big American Baby’.
This is a truly strange and striking tale that begi...
It is 1972: a group of teenagers are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and the local community. Liberated fo...
Элизабет Страут сравнивали с Джоном Чивером, Стейнбеком и Рэем Брэдбери, называли "Ричардом Йейтсом в юбке" и даже "американским Чеховым"; она публиковалась в "Нью-Йоркере...
О, женщины из маленьких городков американского Юга!
"Настоящие леди" или "тупые красотки", "идеальные жены и матери" или "безмозглые куклы"?..
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Это история одного портрета. История одного художника. История одной любви. История, которая могла произойти - а может быть, и произошла - в старом доме на одной из живопи...
Прославленный роман современного классика, лауреат Пулитцеровской премии, финалист множества других престижных литературных наград, книга десятилетия по версии Entertainme...
In Amy Bloom’s brilliant new short story collection, lives are illuminated in the midst of darkness, of thwarted and unexpected love, of families made and found. These are...
