*A Lannan Translation Series Selection*
A moving chronicle of childhood activism set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War by one of the "21 top writers for the 21st century" (The Observer)
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*A Lannan Translation Series Selection*
A moving chronicle of childhood activism set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War by one of the "21 top writers for the 21st century" (The Observer)
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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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“A pitch-perfect depiction of the reality of the artistic life.” —The Observer
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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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“This strange, visionary novel takes on no less harrowing a subject than the wages of Terror on the ordinary human psyche. Even as your sense of complicity builds, you can’t stop turning the pages.”
—KATHRYN DAVIS
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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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“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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**FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD**
** WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD**
“Ravenous prose…a literary tour de force.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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In this wickedly funny novel, Percival Everett revisits the age-old Dionysos myth.
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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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"I suspect it will be some months before I have to stop saying that Glyph is the smartest and funniest novel I've read this century." —LA Weekly
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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
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" 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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An irresistible comic novel from master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America
“Not only is the novel smart and without a trace of pretentiousness, it shows Everett as a novelist at the height of his narrative and satirical powers."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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"A quirky, droll road map of the human heart, with all its foibles and dangers." —Publishers Weekly
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“ Lawnboy is, quite simply, the real thing, a novel of mystery and great beauty.” —Michael Cunningham
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"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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"I was swept along by the beautifully constructed story of Anna and
Nasreddine, whose love survives a half century of war and terror in
post-colonial Algeria. Benmalek is a master of the poetics of
separation." —Alice Kaplan
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Now available in paperback: The hilarious and poignant novel by Pocketful of Names author Joe Coomer, "a marvelously creative comic writer." (Washington Times)
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THE NOVEL THAT IS STEALING PRIZES, SALES, AND HEARTS ACROSS THE WORLD
With over 230,000 copies sold worldwide and 70 weeks spent on the Norwegian bestseller list, Per Petterson's heartfelt and unforgettable novel makes its U.S. debut.
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FORTHCOMING OCTOBER 2009
“Remarkable and arresting, this debut has the pleasures of a fairy tale and a novel at the same time. Mockett probes the family mythology of a very peculiar line of talented Japanese women who may or may not be descended from the Princess of the Moon, and spins the tale of how they survived post-war Japan, modernity and life in America. A spellbinding new talent.”
—ALEXANDER CHEE
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"As intimate as a seven-drink conversation, as compulsive as a pocket
encyclopedia, as unwilling to end as the light from stars no longer
burning." —Village Voice
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Now available in paperback: The June 2005 Booksense Pick that The New Yorker calls "impossible to resist."
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"To leave Rainy Lake is to be left with 'the lingering smell of lake
water,' the haunting memory of a real girl struggling to come of age
against the backdrop of the 60's, racism and Viet Nam." —Sandra Benitez
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“Dialogic, atmospheric, a situation plumbed rather than a plot
unfolded—a Chicago noir this is and it casts its spell.” —E. L. Doctorow
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