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by Lara Vapnyar
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by Owen Matthews
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsAn indelible portrait of Russia over seven decades and an unforgettable memoir about how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to our ancestry only to find ourselves aligning with it.
by Jo Walton
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsIn an alternate history, a radical group overthrew Churchill and made peace with Hitler. Now, eight years later at a country retreat, one of the group is murdered; and suspicion falls on the Jewish husband of one of their adult children.
by Tom Bissell
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsSometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, but always eerily affecting, these stories show us deeply foreign lands and peoples through our own eyes.
by Bernhard Schlink
Published Nov 2002
Read ReviewsA collection of stories that weave themselves around the idea of love---love to seek and love to flee; love as desire, as guilt, as confusion or self-betrayal; love as habit, as affair, and as life-changing rebellion.
by Ann Beattie
Published Feb 2002
Read ReviewsPerfect Recall comprises Beattie's strongest work in years. It is a riveting commentary on the way we live now by a spectacular prose artist.
by Lorrie Moore
Published Sep 1999
Read ReviewsExplores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.
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