A Beautiful Mind
: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar
Hardcover: Jun 1998
Paperback: Dec 2001
'A brilliant book -- at once a powerful and moving biography of a great mathematical genius and an important contribution to American intellectual history.'
A stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.
A Better Angel
: Stories
by Chris Adrian
Hardcover: Aug 2008
Paperback: Jul 2009
The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human sufferingillness, regret, mourning, sympathyin the most unusual of ways - by turns heartbreaking, magical, and darkly comic.
Transcendent stories: about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose.
A Bookshop in Berlin
: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
by Francoise Frenkel
Hardcover: Dec 2019
Paperback: Aug 2020
"A beautiful and important book" (The Independent) in the tradition of rediscovered works like SuiteFrançaise and The Nazi Officer's Wife, the prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-...
On the night of December 3, 1984, Anjali waits for her husband to pick her up at the train station in Bhopal, India. In an instant, her world changes forever. Her anger at his being late turns to horror when a catastrophic gas leak poisons the city ...
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic spanning Kingston in the '70s, the crack wars in '80s New York, and a radically altered Jamaica in the '90s.
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