Nominated for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction!
“James Baldwin meets Aldous Huxley” in this “highly original” speculative fable (Chicago Tribune).
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Fiction Pick for 2013
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A young Nigerian writer living in New York City returns to Lagos in search of a subject-and himself. For readers of JM Coetzee and Chimamanda Adichie.
Visiting Lagos after many years away, Teju Cole's unnamed narrator rediscovers his...
‘… I have friends and family, I am in this wonderful country, I have money, there is nothing much wrong with me except I am dying.’
‘Every Single Minute’ is a novel by inspired by the force of honesty —...
Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters he created in Nobody’s Fool.
The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is...
Author vividly recounts his early years as a Jewish boy growing up among his many relatives in Soviet Uzbekistan in the 1960s and ‘70s.
Each chapter carries us back to that childhood world, full of discoveries and events. The book allows us to...
Albena Stambolova’s idiosyncratic debut novel, Everything Happens as It Does, builds from the idea that, as the title suggests, everything happens exactly the way it must. In this case, the seven characters of the novel — from Boris, a young boy...