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A Novel of Early Manhattan
by Beverly Swerling
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by Melania G. Mazzucco
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsThe award-winning Italian author Melania G. Mazzucco weaves her own family history into a great American novel of the immigrant experience. A sweeping tale of discovery, love, and loss, Vita is a passionate blend of biography and autobiography, of fantasy and fiction.
by Elizabeth Gaffney
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsCaptures the splendor and violence of New York in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.
by John Lanchester
Published Sep 2003
Read ReviewsSet in Hong Kong, from the intrigue and double-dealing of the 1930s, through the savagery of the Japanese occupation, to the year 2000, this novel depicts a tumultuous time and place, peopled with extraordinary characters.
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