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Winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of...
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years — except Biff.
Ever since the day...
“A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling.” —The New York Times Book Review
Fed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New...
From the national bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark comes another funny, poignant, unforgettable story.
The summer Gibby McGraw catches her big break, the cicadas are humming, and it's so warm even the...
Nach "Shanghai fern von wo" geht Ursula Krechel noch einmal den Spuren deutscher Geschichte nach. Ihr neuer Roman handelt vom Exil und von den fünfziger Jahren, von einer Rückkehr ohne Ankunft.Was muss einer fürchten, was darf einer hoffen, der...
In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary...
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Larry's Kidney, Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China
Larry Feldman desperately needed a kidney. After two god-awful years on dialysis, watching his life ebb away while waiting on a transplant list behind 74,000 other Americans, the gun-toting couch potato decided to risk everything and travel to...
Una tragedia oriental que nos introduce en una China recóndita y contemporánea, que aún continúa siendo algo desconocida a ojos occidentales.
La trama tiene lugar en el Condado Paraíso, una zona rural de China que apenas...
Todo parecía posible en México a finales de los años cuarenta, recuerda Carlos, el narrador y protagonista de esta novela: el presidente inauguraba obras públicas a diario, avanzaba la industrialización, se incorporaban...