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Santiago Gamboa
Return to the Dark Valley
Santiago Gamboa is one of Colombia's most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolaño, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan stories with a dose of inky dark noir that makes his novels intensely readable, his characters unforgettable, and his style influential. -
Kazimierz Brandys
Rondo
In Rondo, a modern classic of European literature now available for the first time in quality paperback, Brandys gives us a compelling wartime narrative and an eloquent statement about political and personal exile suffused with a passionate, anecdotal warmth. One of the century’s great literary figures,... -
Levan Berdzenishvili
Sacred Darkness
Based on true events, a thrilling marriage of reportage and fiction, Sacred Darkness brings together the stories of a group of citizens from the Soviet Union who find themselves in an extraordinary, absurd condition. As a political dissident, Berdzenishvili lands in jail, serving... -
Laurent Gaudé
Salina: The Three Exiles
Who will tell the tale of Salina, the mother of three sons, the woman with three exiles, the abandoned child with salty tears? She was taken in by Mamambala and raised as her daughter in a clan that only ever saw her as a stranger and which wanted to defeat her. At the twilight of her life, it... -
Su Bristow
Sealskin
Donald, a young fisherman, is overwhelmed when he comes across a group of beautiful women dancing on the shore beneath the moonlight. They are selkies — seals that shed their skin once a year to become human for a few hours. The decision he makes that night, to capture one of these selkies and... -
Jonathan Yardley
Second Reading. Notable and Neglected Books Revisited
Collected from a popular Washington Post column of the same name, Second Readings is an incisive and entertaining look at the career and times of an esteemed critic and the venerable books that shaped him. -
Fotini Tsalikoglou
The Secret Sister
The past isn’t over. It isn’t even past. For Jonathan, a third generation Greek American who has never set foot in his ancestral homeland, a journey to crisis ridden contemporary Greece will unleash a century of buried family secrets. -
Lena Divani
Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat
Sugar recounts his days and nights spent with Miss Sweetie in a novel that fits squarely into the illustrious tradition of feline literature a la T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire, Bukowski, and Céline. -
James Hamilton-Paterson
Seven-Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds
Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea; a beautifully written blend of literature and science.
