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Jesse Browner
Everything Happens Today
Everything Happens Today is funny, moving, generous and exhilarating. It will enchant young adults who see themselves in the story as well as adult readers who will be captured by the deeply sympathetic characters and the acute feel for the way we live now. Most readers will want it never to be... -
Laurence Cossé
An Accident in August
From the author of A Novel Bookstore comes further proof of a prodigious and remarkable literary imagination at work. -
André Carl van der Merwe
Moffie
from Moffie I have been thrown into hell; herded into the Defence Force, into the abattoir of its border war like an animal to slaughter, with no say over my own destiny. Forced to kill people I don’t know, for a cause I don’t believe in. -
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. -
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Henry Sutton
Get Me Out of Here
In the spirit of Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho, Henry Sutton’s new novel brilliantly depicts the culture of irresponsible entitlement that led to the current economic malaise. -
Anna Gavalda
French Leave
A bestseller in France and Germany and published in over twenty-six languages, Anna Gavalda’s French Leave is a heartfelt adventure that tells the story of four siblings in search of the happiness they knew as children. -
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Concerto to the Memory of an Angel
Winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt for the Novella From Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, acclaimed author of The Most Beautiful Book in the World and The Woman with the Bouquet, comes another collection of richly imagined narratives that consolidate his position as a master of the novella. -
Alina Bronsky
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
"Rosa Achmetowna, the frightening narrator of Bronsky’s dark and wily latest (after Broken Glass Park)... is absolutely outrageous, a one-woman wrecking crew with no remorse, an acid tongue, and a conniving opportunist’s sense of drive and desperation. Bronsky lands another hit with this hilarious,... -
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,...