The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years — 1969 to the present — and they explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us. In "Miserere," a widowed librarian with an unspeakable secret undertakes an...
A new novel by the author Julian Barnes called “one of the best British writers to emerge in the last decade”.
Set in North Africa and Sicily at the end of World War II, In the Wolf’s Mouth follows the Allies’...
In the blaze of a Carolina summer, among the poison ivy and loblolly pines, eight Marines are killed almost casually by misfired mortar shells. Deciding that his battalion has been “doping off”, Colonel Templeton calls for a 36-mile forced march...
With true compassion and revealing honesty, one of today’s most gifted storytellers explores the world of a wife suddenly facing the future alone — the decisions that must be made when she is highly vulnerable, the attempt to be both mother and...
“You read and reread Lebedev's lyrical, cutting prose with equal amounts of awe and enjoyment. This gorgeously written, unsettling novel—a rare work about the fall of the Soviet Union as told through the eyes of a child—leaves us with a fresh...
Seismologist Charlie Richter, grandson of the inventor of the Richter scale, knows earthquakes, and has a method for predicting them. Arriving in Los Angeles to begin work at the Center for Earthquake Studies, a mysterious agency that seems more...
In 1988, Eric Cho, an aspiring writer, arrives at Macalester College. On his first day he meets a beautiful fledgling painter, Jessica Tsai, and another would-be novelist, the larger-than-life Joshua Yoon. Brilliant, bawdy, generous, and...
A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century.
One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling,...
The German war machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the once-beautiful city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into...