An overwhelmed new mom asks to hear her grandmother’s story of her family’s desperate escape from the Nazis, discovering unexpected parallels to her own life in America in this sharp, heartfelt novel.
“A fresh perspective—one that’s...
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Taking place during World War II, Somewhere in the Stars is the story of three young men from San Francisco—Nick Spataro, his cousin Paolo, and friend Nathan Fein—and their adventures as members of an American tank battalion chasing the Germans...
The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English.
This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a...
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Stalina Folskaya’s homeland is little more than a bankrupt country of broken dreams. She flees St. Petersburg in search of a better life in America, leaving behind her elderly mother and the grief of the past....
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A young subaltern returns to the Western Front after a brief period of sick leave in an England blind to the horrors of the First World War. His battalion is tragically...
Stray...
Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, Strumpet City is a panoramic novel of city life. It embraces a wide range of social milieux, from the miseries of the tenements to the cultivated, bourgeois Bradshaws. It introduces a memorable cast of...
– WINNER OF FRANCE'S PRIX RENAUDOT -
"A book of exceptional literary quality… it has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank."-The Times Literary Supplement
"Heroic… a novel about a nightmare in which the author is entirely...
– WINNER OF FRANCE'S PRIX RENAUDOT -
"A book of exceptional literary quality… it has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank."-The Times Literary Supplement
"Heroic… a novel about a nightmare in which the author is entirely...