Previews (36 Listed volumes)
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Mieko Kawakami
Breasts and Eggs
“One of Japan’s brightest stars is set to explode across the global skies of literature.” —Japan Times -
Amélie Nothomb
Thirst
In her twenty-eighth novel in as many years, best-selling Belgian novelist and international literary superstar Amélie Nothomb takes on a story for the ages: the life of Jesus. In a first-person voice as wry as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus’s final days, from his trial to his crucifixion... -
Alan Parks
Bobby March Will Live Forever
The third dark and gripping Harry McCoy thriller from the most exciting new voice in Scottish noir. July 1973. The Glasgow drug trade is booming and Bobby March, the city’s own rock-star hero, has just overdosed in a central hotel. Alice Kelly is thirteen years old, lonely. And missing. -
Damon Galgut
The Promise
“Galgut will be seen as one of the great literary triumphs of South Africa’s transition… in every way the equal of J. M. Coetzee”— Rian Malan, author of My Traitor’s Heart A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose that could only... -
Maki Kashimada
Touring the Land of the Dead (and Ninety-Nine Kisses)
A story from one of Japan's rising literary stars about memory, loss, and love, Touring the Land of the Dead is a mesmerizing combination of two tales, both told with stylistic inventiveness and breathtaking sensitivity. Taichi was forced to stop working almost a decade ago and since... -
Hervé Le Corre
In the Shadow of the Fire
In the Shadow of the Fire traces the Communards’ tragic odyssey, while following a breathless criminal investigation.