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A Novel
by Rivka Galchen
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by Jennifer Egan
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsA Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
by Joshua Ferris
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsWhat drives a man to stay in a marriage, in a job? What forces him away? Is love or conscience enough to overcome the darker, stronger urges of the natural world? The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human understanding.
Censoring an Iranian Love Story
by Shahriar Mandanipour
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsFrom one of Irans most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in Englisha dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what its like to live, to love, and to be an artist in todays Iran.
by Victor LaValle
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsA fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.
by John Wray
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsBy turns suspenseful and comic, devastating and hopeful, Lowboy is a fearless exploration of youth, sex, and violence in contemporary America, seen through one boy's haunting and extraordinary vision.
by Aleksandar Hemon
Published Dec 2009
Read ReviewsThe inaugural installment of what will become an annual anthology of stories from across Europe.
by Aleksandar Hemon
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsIn 1908, 19-year-old Lazarus went to the home of George Shippy, the Chicago chief of police to deliver a letter - but Shippy shot Lazarus twice, killing him. Now, in the 21st century, a young writer, Brik, becomes obsessed with Lazarus' story - what really happened and why? As digs deeper, the stories of Lazarus and Brik become inextricably ...
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.
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
by Kevin Wilson
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsSouthern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.
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 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 Roberto Bolano
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsNew Years Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the ...
by Richard Powers
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsFollowing a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerges from his coma, Mark believes that this woman who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister is really an identical impostor. As a famous neurologist investigates his condition, Mark tries to learn what really happened the night of ...
by Nicole Krauss
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsA long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
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