Tag Archives: Literary

Troll

by Johanna Sinisalo

“[An] imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy. . . . Overlapping narrative voices nicely underscore the moral of Sinisalo’s ingeniously constructed fable: The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire.” —Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World…

Trombone

by Craig Nova

‘mr. Nova’s unusual sense of drama works wonderfully. . . . [The book’s passages] combine to form the sort of jagged, oddly shaped whole…

Train to Pakistan

by Khushwant Singh

“A powerful and affecting novel capturing both the sweep of the cataclysmic events of 1947 and the intimate details of village existence.” –John Gabree,…

The Translator

by Leila Aboulela

“Abouela has a talent for expressing the simple wonders of unbroken faith. Just as deftly, she uncovers the intricacies of how such faith can…

Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves

by Carolyn Chute

Legendary, bestselling author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine, whom the New York Times Book Review calls “an extraordinary, vivid, empathetic writer,” returns to…

Tokyo Cancelled

by Rana Dasgupta

“[This] brilliantly conceived and jauntily delivered first novel . . . harks back to Boccaccio and Chaucer. . . . There is something marvelously…

Tokyo Doesn’t Love Us Anymore

by Ray Loriga

“Loriga’s gorgeous, enigmatic new novel . . . could be described in terms of its premise . . . but such a description cheats…

Tolstoy

by Henri Troyat

“This . . . biography of him is the fullest, most objective, and the liveliest . . . the story of his life reads…

The Ticket That Exploded

by William S. Burroughs

“In Burroughs’ hands, writing reverts to acts of magic, as though he were making some enormous infernal encyclopedia of all the black impulses and…