It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life — his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used...
Teetering between the ridiculous and the sublime, The Wilds blends Southern gothic strangeness with dystopian absurdities, sci-fi speculations, and fairy-tale transformations.
At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a...
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the...
"Sadistic but mesmerizing…"
— The New York Times Book Review
Tracing a group of ruthless outlaws from its genesis during the American Civil War all the way to a final bloody stand in the Oklahoma territories, The Winter Family is a...
Pasha Malla knows joy in all of its weird, unsettling, and wondrous forms. In their humor, warmth, and rigorous honesty, his stories clearly capture something odd and beautiful: the unmistakable feeling of empathy. From young couples fighting...
From the award-winning author of The Electric Michelangelo, one of the most decorated young British writers working today, comes a literary masterpiece: a breathtaking work that beautifully and provocatively surveys the frontiers of the human spirit...
Exclusive to Kindle, in Marra’s The Wolves of Bilaya Forest, the wolves — those “capitalists of the animal kingdom”—have returned. Vera Pavlova has lived long enough to know that when this happens and they begin to howl, it means the...
Palestine. For most of us, the word brings to mind a series of confused images and disjointed associations-massacres, refugee camps, UN resolutions, settlements, terrorist attacks, war, occupation, checkered *kouffiyehs* and suicide bombers, a...
Kobo Abe (1924–1993) is a Japanese writer who has been compared to German writer Franz Kafka. Abe's The Women in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century. It combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the...
"Triumphs of nuance and suggestion." — Chicago Tribune
"Ruminative, elegiac, and mordantly funny, Tabucchi's prose conjures a state between waking and dreaming." — The New York Times
From "A Whale's View of Man":
Always so...