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Generational & Family Sagas
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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts & reviews from exceptional books with a family saga as a central theme
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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
by Adam Johnson
Hardcover: 10 Jan 2012
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| An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. |
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American Dervish: A Novel
by Ayad Akhtar
Hardcover: 9 Jan 2012
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| American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life. |
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Life: An Exploded Diagram
by Mal Peet
Hardcover: 11 Oct 2011
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| Can love survive a lifetime? With its urgent sense of history, sweeping emotion, and winning young narrator, Mal Peet's latest is an unforgettable, timely exploration of life during wartime. |
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Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel
by Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 11 Oct 2011
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| Shange and Bayeza give us a monumental story of a family and of America, of songs and why we have to sing them, of home and of heartbreak, of the past and of the future, bright and blazing ahead. |
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You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face-Blindness and Forgiveness
by Heather Sellers
Hardcover: Oct 2010
Paperback: 4 Oct 2011
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| An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. |
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How to Read the Air
by Dinaw Mengestu
Hardcover: Oct 2010
Paperback: 4 Oct 2011
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| A heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination, which confirms Mengestu's reputation as one of the brightest talents of his generation. |
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Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
by Yangzom Brauen
Hardcover: 27 Sep 2011
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| An extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence. |
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Freedom: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
Hardcover: Aug 2010
Paperback: 27 Sep 2011
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| Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. An indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time. |
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