A Los Angeles Times Best of Summer pick.
An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Mystery, Thriller & Suspense).
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Summer: "The best literary puzzle of the summer."
The Antiquarian is...
At the age of nine, Juan Salvatierra became mute following a horse riding accident. At twenty, he began secretly painting a series of long rolls of canvas in which he minutely detailed six decades of life in his village on Argentina’s river...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past in both of David Grossman's novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can put to rest. In Frenzy, a reserved...
"César Aira has become a cult fiction writer in his native Argentina as well as throughout Latin America for his hyperrealist treatment of surreal or implausible scenarios and his aggressive defiance of literary conventions,"...
Systematically confronting Greek tradition of the Heroic Age with the evidence of both linguistics and archaeology, Margalit Finkelberg proposes an interdisciplinary assessment of the ethnic, linguistic and cultural situation in Greece in the...
BIRTH OF A HOLOCAUST
“Dr. Lawrence,” Madelaine said steadily, “will you help us? We can’t have anybody knowing about us who isn’t on our side.”
“That’s something I can’t answer until I know what you’re trying to do.”
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Luke Whales, host of a successful TV show and possibly the most recognizable man in the near future America, has everything a man could hope for. He is rich, handsome and recently divorced. But one day a dead U.S. Draft Marshal turns up in his...
Knowledge is expanding exponentially, as humanity fills the galaxy and then some. But advances in physics (which Draper describes in fictional mathematical terms) are able to keep up with the storage problem, until all of human knowledge, for all...
Outside, the city is embroiled in violent chaos: street fights rage with the ferocity of urban warfare, buildings burn unchecked, and blood flows along the sidewalks and drips into the depths of the hungry gutters. The entire country, it seems,...