Tag Archives: Literary

The Siege

by Helen Dunmore

“The best historical fiction delivers emotional truth through the lives of imaginary but ordinary people, making it possible to feel the texture of events…

The Silent Cry

by Kenzaburo Oe

Now back in print, a modern classic by Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe, praised as “a major feat of the imagination.” —Times (UK)

Sing Them Home

by Stephanie Kallos

“Sing Them Home constantly surprises, changing voices, viewpoints, and tempos, mixing humor and pathos, and introducing a big cast of vividly portrayed characters, major…

Show Me the Sky

by Nick Hogg

“[A] subtle and clever novel . . . each voice is different and distinct. . . . The whole is plotted so artfully that…

The Shrine at Altamira

by John L'Heureux

‘mesmerizing . . . a powerful and affecting story about love’s most anguished and disturbing permutations.” –Timothy Hunter, Cleveland Plain Dealer

Shards

by Ismet Prcic

“Impressive . . . Inventive . . . Pushes against convention, logic, chronology . . . Ambitious and deep . . . [Prcic] succeeds…

Shark

by Will Self

Following the Booker-shortlisted Umbrella, Shark is a mind-bending novel of the intersection of pathology and war, set in the 1970s but pivoting around the…

She May Not Leave

by Fay Weldon

“One of England’s most superb novelists, could best be described as a 21st-century Thackery. . . . Weldon’s sharp wit and incisive skewering of…

Sexus

by Henry Miller

“At times uproariously funny . . . may be Miller’s masterpiece.” —Choice