"An enjoyable read, without a dull page." —Kirkus Reviews
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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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"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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“Literature that is truly world-class.” —Los Angeles Times
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“With sublime restraint and subtle modulation, Solstad conveys an entire age of sorrow and loss.” —Publishers Weekly
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“Hagy crafts first-rate prose—unsparingly raw and visceral with flashes of high lyricism—that carries the reader from the napalmed mountains of Korea to the vast pastures of the west.” —Publishers Weekly
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“Stump makes you feel that you are reading on the edge of a life in a fierce gale, vulnerable, excited, alive.”—The Guardian
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"Nuruddin Farah is one of the finest contemporary African novelists.” —Salman Rushdie
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Unhinged by years of rejection letters, an author plots a wild scheme to gain
an editor's undivided attention.
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" Ten Seconds is classic in its intimate portrait of maleness, softspoken and secretive."
—New Orleans Times-Picayune
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"The most beautiful novel published in Spain since the Civil War." —Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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FORTHCOMING OCTOBER 2008
Direct from Norway: A brilliant novel of lost innocence from the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses and “a master storyteller” (Newsweek)
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“Imagine Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha written by Nabokov and you will get some idea of the linguistic fireworks and the suavity of the prose in this extraordinary book.” —Edmund White
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"Grace Dane Mazur's new novel, Trespass, burrows magically under the skin and takes up permanent residence there until
the last page is read." —Richard Russo
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"In an ordinary small southern town, a war is being waged--one that
this amusing, sharp-eyed little novel makes extraordinarily vivid." —Kirkus Reviews
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A father exacts revenge on the murderer of his only daughter in Percival Everett's most lacerating indictment to date.
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“Clint McCown’s The Weatherman is a funny and smart novel about
making it through the seriously changeable weather of life on planet
Earth. When the meteorologist of the title—a memorable character named
Taylor Wakefield—points to that seemingly empty blue screen behind him,
it’s not just clouds and sunshine that show up, it’s us.” —Robert Olen Butler
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“With evocative, freewheeling prose (“the run-on sentences that were
her married life”), Hill…nimbly salvages one family's striving from an
era of grasping and consumerism.” —Publishers Weekly
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The story of 1960s American family that breaks all the rules, now available in paperback
“Hill writes with velocity, rhythm, and wit, conveying a world of subtle emotions and social nuance in brilliantly syncopated inner monologues and staccato dialogue, creating a bravura and resounding performance….Hill has written a breakneck, wisecracking, tenderhearted, socially revealing portrait of an unusual early 1960s American marriage.” —Booklist
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The winner of the 2006 PEN USA fiction award, now available in paperback
“An unsettling look at intolerance and its logical end in violence.” —New York Times Book Review
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“ Wreckage is really a remarkable piece of work. In the
foreground is a caper story; in the background, a poetically expressed,
apocalyptic history of Liverpool.” —Daily Telegraph
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