The Undertaking

by Audrey Magee

“A powerful creation . . . profoundly moving. Ms. Magee’s willingness to examine the darkest elements of the conflict in a novel that still…

Twilight of the Eastern Gods

by Ismail Kadare

One of the earliest novels from the Man Booker International Prize winner, Twilight of the Eastern Gods explores the Kafkaesque position of the writer…

Two Against One

by Frederick Barthelme

“Barthelme achieves what Chekov spoke of as grace, the most gained with the least exertion. He leads us through a shattered set of lives,…

Two Guys from Verona

by James Kaplan

“Kaplan’s novel is a view of suburban life as David Lynch might imagine it: as banal as a mini-mall, yet seething with anxiety, eroticism…

The Typist

by Michael Knight

The most ambitious novel to date from the award-winning Southern writer Michael Knight, about a green young American posted to the strange realm of…

Try

by Dennis Cooper

“Written in Mr. Cooper’s taut, chillingly ironic prose. . . Try is about a world under severe emotional repression–a fascistic world of pure sadistic power. . . . As improbable…

Tsotsi

by Athol Fugard

“In lean yet lyrical prose . . . [Athol Fugard] uncannily insinuates himself into the skins of the oppressed majority and articulates its rage…

Turbulence

by Jia Pingwa

“A rare, richly detailed, and insightful account of life in a Chinese village during the tumultuous decade of post-Mao reforms. With earthy language and…

Turn of Mind

by Alice LaPlante

“[Like] Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One—a dread-filled, unputdownable page-turner . . . Skillfully written in the memory-loss first person, the book combines murder mystery…

Turning Japanese

by David Mura

“In his memoir Turning Japanese , the poet David Mura brings an intriguing perspective to the New World quest for enlightenment from this ancient…

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