Tag Archives: Literary

Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

by Ivan Klíma

A powerful, important novel about the struggle between the ideal and the temptations of freedom.

The Voices

by Susan Elderkin

“A reader can feel [Elderkin’s] human characters being ripped from the earth, a reader can feel the children being ripped form their parent, and…

Voltaire in Exile

by Ian Davidson

“Davidson . . . has taken on the story of the last Voltaire. . . . In 1753, at the beginning of Davidson’s story,…

Voyageurs

by Margaret Elphinstone

“With grandly accessible language and brilliant strokes Margaret Elphinstone re-creates a place within which we learn much of the capability of the human heart…

The Voyeur

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

“I can think of no other writer who can render the banal so fearfully fantastic. In the subtlest, slyest, and most sheerly delightful way…

Violencia!

by Bruce Jay Friedman

“[Friedman’s] writing is so funny – and deceptively effortless – critics often liken it to a stand-up comedy routine.”–The New York Times…

The Veins of the Ocean

by Patricia Engel

The extraordinary new novel from award-winning author Patricia Engel, The Veins of the Ocean is a heartrending story of one woman’s devotion to her…

Vernon God Little

by DBC Pierre

“A dangerous, smart, ridiculous, and very funny first novel . . . Pierre renders adolescence brilliantly, capturing with seeming effortlessness the bright, contradictory hormone…

An Untamed State

by Roxane Gay

“Clear your schedule now! Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear . . . written at a pace that will match your racing heart.” —Edwidge Danticat, author of Claire of the Sea…

Up High in the Trees

by Kiara Brinkman

“A very moving and perfectly convincing evocation of the inner life of an unusual boy. . . . Brinkman’s portrait of Sebby and his…