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by Per Petterson
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by Nathaniel Ian Miller
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by Caro De Robertis
Published Jun 2020
Read ReviewsFrom the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.
by Graham Swift
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsA hauntingly intimate, deeply compassionate story about things that touch and test our human core, Wish You Were Here also looks, inevitably, to a wider, afflicted world. Moving toward a fiercely suspenseful climax, it brilliantly transforms the stuff of headlines into heart-wrenching personal truth.
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsA reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides its not too late to start over...
by Michael Crummey
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsSprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.
by Thomas Lynch
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsHeart-rending stories of life and death: a debut fiction collection by the award-winning author of The Undertaking.
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
by Evie Wyld
Published Nov 2010
Read ReviewsSet in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.
by J M Coetzee
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsSummertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsA spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story and financial intrigue.
by Meg Rosoff
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsAn unusual coming-of-age story that examines the fluidity of identity and the ways in which people consciously redefine themselves in the face of love.
Joop: A Novel of Anne Frank (A Hatred for Tulips)
by Richard Lourie
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsA gripping fictionalized account of the man who betrayed Anne Frank will not soon be forgotten. Richard Lourie takes us into not only a persons mind, a time, and a place, but into the treacherous currents of history that sweep lives away.
Published in hardcover in the USA as A Hatred For Tulips, but renamed Joop: A Novel of Anne Frank in ...
by William Trevor
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsFrom a chance encounter between two childhood friends to the memories of a newly widowed man to a family grappling with the sale of their ancestral land, Trevor examines with grace and skill the tenuous bonds of our relationships, the strengths that hold us together, and the truths that threaten to separate us.
by Laura Restrepo
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsAguilar, an unemployed literature professor who has resorted to selling dog food for a living, returns home from a short trip to discover that his wife, Agustina, has gone mad. He doesnt know what has happened during his absence, and in his search for answers, he gradually unearths profound and shadowy secrets about her past.
by Phillipe Claudel
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsThe daily life of a small town is hardly disturbed by the First World War raging nearby. But this illusion is shattered by the deaths of three innocents. Twenty years on, a policeman still struggles to make sense of the deaths which both torment and sustain him.
by Ismail Kadare
Published Nov 2006
Read ReviewsIn this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of the dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny.
by Niccolò Ammaniti
Published Feb 2004
Read ReviewsIn this immensely powerful, lyrical and skillfully narrated novel, set in southern Italy, nine year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he darent tell anyone about it. Read an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse today.
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