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by Howard Jacobson
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsThe Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.
by Simon Van Booy
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsOn the verge of giving upanchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their livesVan Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.
by Rivka Galchen
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsAtmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind.
by Geraldine Brooks
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsFrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.
by Nathan Englander
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsIn the heart of Argentinas Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who wont accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends his nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence--and denies a checkered history that only Kaddish holds dear.
by Mark Slouka
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsThe Visible World is an evocative, powerfully romantic novel about a son's attempt to understand his mother's past, a search that leads him to a tragic love affair and the heroic story of the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi by the Czech resistance.
by Meg Mullins
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsA sparkling debut novel about an unlikely romance between an Iranian immigrant and an American college student.
by Peter R. Pouncey
Published Jun 2006
Read ReviewsA brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsUnafraid to show his traumatized characters' constant groping for emotional catharsis, Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty.
by Trezza Azzopardi
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsSeventy-two-year-old Winnie, homeless and abandoned time and again by those shes trusted, is catapulted out of her exile when a young girl robs her. Winnie embarks on a journey to find the thief, and what begins as a search for stolen belongings becomes the rediscovery of a stolen life.
by Sandor Marai
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe first English translation of a brooding, densely atmospheric Hungarian novel written in 1942. Mesmerizing. A small, beautifully fashioned masterpiece.
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