Jessica Treadway seamlessly portrays the complexity of human experience
in the face of incomprehensible loss, revealing yet again why the New York Times Book Review has called her "a writer with an unsparing bent for the truth."
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“Half zen koan, half Jim Thompson, and 100% Percival
Everett, the twined mysteries of Assumption
provide all the lively satisfactions of ‘genre’ fiction, while describing yet
another arc in the trajectory of Everett’s brilliant and protean career. In
these spare, funny, and violent studies of the nature of identity and truth,
Everett shows again that he is a learned student of the art of fiction, in
addition to being one of its most able practitioners.”—Christopher Sorrentino
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"Disturbing, elegant and powerful...[Lowenthal] has thrown down one
hell of a gauntlet. Disarmingly but beautifully, he's explored the
blurry line between selfless love and selfish lust." —The Washington Post
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"This is a truly incredible novel about the scars of war that are left
on the hearts of a family living in exile. . . . A stunning, insightful
book that examines the tragedy of Lebanon—a window on the even greater
catastrophe of war itself." —The Sanford Herald
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Now available in paperback: The critically-acclaimed novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence and a "terrific story." (THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)
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"Central Square confirms again that George Packer is one of the
great young talents of American fiction. This beautifully wrought
novel, about a city, a love affair, and the perpetual American hope for
renewal, makes high art—and compelling drama—from the follies and
compromises that attend all of those things." —Scott Turow
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“[Roy Jacobsen] shares the blunt, gentle grace and
narrative ease of his countryman Per Petterson. . . . A gloriously intelligent
novel that is so rewarding, funny, sad and human that the only advice to be
given is to read it.”—Eileen
Battersby, The Irish Times
“Farah, the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years, is also one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review
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"As touching and funny a rendering of adolescence as The Catcher in the Rye...Dead Languages speaks to everyone who has ever struggled to articulate an emotion and failed
to find the words." —Library Journal
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"What begins as something of a ghost story, a shaggy-menorah story,
winds up being a profound meditation on human hauntedness, the
inevitability of ghostliness and grief. This is a beautiful, wise, and
enormously moving novel." —David Shields
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"Wonderfully engrossing and haunting...a timely look at violence,
pathology, and the intersection of survival and redemption. Highly
recommended." —Library Journal, starred review
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“I found A House at the Edge of Tears stunning and
provocative, compelling and haunting. Vénus Khoury-Ghata has
weaved like a lace maker the story of her brother, herself, her family,
and a society far removed from any bland ideal...using the finest,
poetic, hypnotic prose which pricks you like needles.”—Hanan al-Shaykh
"The House of Widows is a dazzling novel, rich with fascinating characters, whose search for love and truth carries them from country to country, uncovering terrible secrets, and in the course of their journey revealing much about the history of the last half-century.”—Howard Zinn
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"A rich and compelling rip-off of Joyce's Ulysses. . . . It takes chuzpah to attempt a story like this . . . Kitchen succeeds
wonderfully." —Kirkus Reviews
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“[Per Petterson] provides one
of literature’s greatest gifts in his novels—an absorbing interiority that
creates a welcome refuge from our cacophonous world. His books are suffused
with a luxurious, downy silence, a quiet that allows us to slow down and sink
into spare language that evokes complex emotions and primal sensations such as
cold, wet, darkness and light with surprising force.”
"Gracefully moving between past and present, [Mary] Rockcastle
portrays the tangled emotions of a troubled marriage, of a family struggling to
rise above tragedy. A strong and
insightful novel this reader was reluctant to see end.”—Library Journal
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“Nathacha Appanah’s The Last Brother is one of the most beautiful, contained portrayals
of devastating loss and profound longing that I’ve ever read. An older man
gives voice and remembrance to his younger self, bringing to vivid life a
childhood marked by brutality, separation, and death, but also cunning,
connection, and survival. With the lightest of touches, the author movingly
conveys a child discovering his own mysteries, then navigating those of a
baffling, larger world.”
"Cryptic... authoritative and vast—full of suspense, emotional urgency,
and shimmering imagery.... A nightmare tale of mother-love strong
enough to swallow a child whole." —Voice Literary Supplement
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