One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed...
From the towers of Manhattan to the ruins of Greece, from Nuremberg to Vietnam, Swift takes readers on an intensely moving journey of conflict, loss and the small miracles of...
Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood — his home.
Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, his story is one of man's relationship with an...
Zakhar Prilepin’s novel-in-stories, Sin, has become a literary phenomenon in Russia, where it was published in 2007. It has been hailed as the epitome of the spirit of the opening decade of the 21st century, and was called “the book of the...
It’s been a week since the cargo ship was lost on my watch. A week with very little sleep and not much appetite. Now the bio scanner is picking up some sign of life out there in the wreckage, and it’s my duty to go see what it is. Maybe I’m...
A new and radically revised version of the classic novel the New York Times called "a fiercely imagined tale of love and loss, a story that manages to transform tragedy into comic redemption, sorrow into heroic survival."
When Klaus...
Forced into a neutral Estonian port for repairs during the chaos of the opening days of World War II, the Polish submarine, the “Eagle” and her crew are betrayed by their captain and captured by Nazi sympathizers. The crew, however,...
With her wedding ceremony an hour away, Andrea Kleinman excused herself from the preparations to make a long-distance call — to an old and very special friend in New York City... Can a “liberated” woman go home again?... Andrea Kleinman has...