The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948–2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel — awarded the Robert Walser Prize in...
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1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by...
Accompanied by a leopard and a nearly autistic young woman, Marc Despard sets out to locate his wife, who, along with the rest of humanity, was swept away by a time...
Police divers winch Donna's body from a reservoir. She'd been a beauty, and had seemed an artless and popular young woman, so who would want to strangle her? Investigator Frank Crane soon finds evidence of a dark side to her life. There have been so...
Claude is a Frenchman who lives in Dublin. His birthplace is famed as the city of lovers, but so far love has always eluded him. Instead his life revolves around the investment bank where he works. And then one day he realizes he is being followed...
Rebecca Ore’s most recent novel, Gaia’s Toys, was published by Tor in trade paperback last May. Her newest book, The Outlaw School, will be out from Avon sometime next year. Of her latest tale for Asimov’s Ms. Ore says, “A conversation about...
Seven men, friends and strangers, gather in a house in Berkeley. They intend to start a men's club, the purpose of which isn't immediately clear to any of them; but very quickly they discover a powerful and passionate desire to talk. First published...
A “promotion to errand boy” can be more of an adventure than it sounds...
The critically acclaimed, award-winning author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel.
Maryse Condé's personal journey of discovery and...
Lucy King’s saga continues as she searches for her family and for the truth in Book Two of the Virulent trilogy.
It took one week to demolish the world and obliterate the earth’s population. And it took two weeks to solidify the ties of...