Tag Archives: Literary

Playing

by Melanie Abrams

“Playing is an audacious erotic debut novel that chills, thrills, shocks and enthralls. Through the story of a young American woman’s love for a…

A Personal Matter

by Kenzaburo Oe

“In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.” –Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor

The Piano Teacher

by Elfriede Jelinek

“The Piano Teacher is compelling fiction, ensnaring the reader with the intensity of the author’s vision and the bitter irony she uses to present…

Pinball

by Jerzy Kosinski

“Kosinski has created a suspenseful, readable, and unsentimental tale that showcases his love for and knowledge of music and examines the nature of fame…

Pedro Páramo

by Juan Rulfo

The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez…

The People’s Act of Love

by James Meek

“Meeks builds multiple narratives to a bloody, satisfying, yet unsettling conclusion. People’s Act of Love stands not only as a keenly observed historical thriller…

Perdita Durango

by Barry Gifford

“If you bemoan your search for something “different” in fiction, your search is over.” –Chicago Tribune

Perfume River

by Robert Olen Butler

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain comes a powerful novel about the way the Vietnam War divided…

Period

by Dennis Cooper

“A fascinating, intricately crafted jewel of a book . . . It’s a book one could read over and over and never exhaust.”—Dodie Bellamy,…

Perlmann’s Silence

by Pascal Mercier

A stunning novel from the internationally best-selling author of Night Train to Lisbon, Perlmann’s Silence is an accomplished portrayal of a man whose grief…