Naguib Mahfouz is Egypt's most famous novelist and his leading role in Arabic literature remains assured. He is now the author of no fewer than thirty novels and more than a hundred short stories; in Egypt each new publication is regarded as a...
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic.
Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight (Paris time).
It is a saga as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor...
A heartfelt and wondrous debut, by a supremely gifted and exciting new voice in fiction.Will has never been to the outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to know anyone other than his mother, a...
The first of a series of books that cover World War Three, from July 1945 through to its close in September 1947.
From the cold waters of the Baltic to a coffee shop in Turkey, a Chateau in Alsace to paddy fields in China, a foxhole in...
An outstanding human drama. It is the story of strangers, the story of lovers, of men and women drawn together by a week-long trial that affects them more deeply than they dare to admit.
But as each day passes, the suspense mounts in an...
I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I see myself as an unwilling detective with a desire for justice, is her illness an unsolved crime? If so, who is the villain and who is the victim?
Sofia, a young...
From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Tenth of December comes a darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the environment—now available for the first time as an eBook.
Fox...