A stunning novel from award-winning author Daniel Torday, in which a young man recounts his idolization of his Uncle Poxl, a Jewish, former-RAF pilot, exploring memory, fame and story-telling.
All his life, Elijah Goldstein has idolized...
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“I never set foot in J’s bedroom. . I presume that even J’s mother rarely set foot in there and only in genuine emergencies, perhaps because not even she was protected by the awe that he held for her. He wouldn’t let anything touch his...
"The new generation of twenty-first-century African writers have now come of age. Without a doubt Habila is one of the best." — Emmanuel Dongala
In the oil-rich and environmentally devastated Nigerian Delta, the wife of a British oil...
Andrew O'Hagan's fifth novel is a beautiful, deeply charged story about love and memory, about modern war and the complications of fact.
How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we...
A trade paperback reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior — powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is...
These days the news is full of reports about the graying of America, yet it's rare that old people appear in contemporary fiction except as stock characters: the indulgent grandmother, the wicked witch. In her first novel in a dozen years, the...
A novel of life in the mixed culture that existed in Southern Spain before the expulsion of Arabs and Jews, following the life of Abu Jaafar, the bookbinder, and his family as they witness Christopher Columbus’ triumphant parade through the...
The critically acclaimed novel from a master of contemporary American fiction — now available as an ebook
Yglesias’s debut novel of youth, privilege, and rebellion
Rafael Yglesias completed this novel, his first, at the age of...
The critically acclaimed novel from a master of contemporary American fiction — now available as an ebook
An irreverent satire of New York’s media world — and its influence and allure
Writers Tony, Patty, Fred, and David all...
В книге представлены рассказы писателей Австралии XX века: Маркуса Кларка, Джозефа Ферфи, Вильяма Эстли, Генри Лоусона, Алана Маршалла и...