In a new volume of journalistic essays, the eclectic author of A Drinking Life offers sharp commentary on diverse subjects, such as American immigration policy toward Mexico, Mike Tyson, television, crack, Northern Ireland and Octavio...
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Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker finalist: a controversial novel of faith and mystery about a group of desert travellers and their encounter with Jesus.
Quarantine is Jim Crace's imaginative and powerful retelling...
Written by Antonio Tabucchi, author of Indian Nocturne, one of the most renowned voices in European literature and the foremost Italian writer of his generation, this sublimely questioning, superbly imaginative collection of fragments and...
What does a man really know about love?
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This is an action filled World War Two historical fiction novel about Jacob Scott Williams, the assistant gun director on the battleship Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
The story begins with a news reporter for a radio...
"A stunningly strange book about the rarest of fictional subjects: happiness." – Jonathan Lethem
"One of the great English novels of the past ten years." – Zadie Smith
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Traumatized by an accident which ‘involved something falling from the...
A young man meets a woman and falls in love with her, despite her protestations that he will soon turn into "a maggot person" — a maggot-filled body topped by a still-functioning brain. Michael begins experiencing severe pains, and the young...
A provocative novel about the fallout from a search for truth by the author of the national bestseller The Lifeboat.
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"Mexico's greatest woman writer." — Roberto Bolaño
"A luminous writer. . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic" — Miami Herald
An imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen...