Tag Archives: Literary

Pandora in the Congo

by Albert Sanchez Pinol

“An action-packed adventure story in the best Rider Haggard tradition. It is also a parody of such novels and a sophisticated reflection on the…

Paradise

by Elena Castedo

“Filled with rich descriptions and vivid scenes. Ms. Castedo’s language is exuberant.” –The New York Times Book Review

Paradise Overdose

by Brian Antoni

“Nothing short of a force-10 hurricane is the impact of Brian Antoni’s first novel about turbulent and turgid goings-on in the Bahamas. An astonishing…

Our Frail Blood

by Peter Nathaniel Malae

From Peter Nathaniel Malae, a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award and a New York Times notable author, comes a multigenerational novel of…

Our Lady of the Flowers

by Jean Genet

“Elegiac elegance, alternately muted, languorous, vituperative, tender, glamorous, bitchy, lush, mockingly feminine, “high camp,” overripe, vigorous, rigorous, exalted. . . . A remarkable achievement.” –The New York Times Book Review…

Pacific

by Tom Drury

“All great books are strange . . . Pacific is a terrific book, and a strange one, as strange as the world and the…

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosinski

“Of all the remarkable fiction that emerged from World War II, nothing stands higher than Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird. A magnificent work of…

Painted Horses

by Malcolm Brooks

A big, enthralling debut novel of America in its ascendance, of history versus modernity, and a love story of the West, Painted Horses introduces an extraordinary new literary voice….

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson

“To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her.”—O, the Oprah Magazine The 40th anniversary edition of a beloved modern classic and pioneering work of…

The Ordinary Seaman

by Francisco Goldman

“A stunningly well-written second novel from a major talent of great style and soul.” —The Miami Herald