Tag Archives: Literary

Passing On

by Penelope Lively

“Passing On feels like real life drawn to scale, where private dreams dwarf the daily routine. . . . An expert at articulating character…

Passion Play

by Jerzy Kosinski

“Like Dostoyevsky’s, Kosinski’s characters explore their own souls, always reaching for limits. . . . The results are never less than compelling.” –Time

The Passion

by Jeanette Winterson

This arresting, elegant novel uses Napolean’s Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an observer of history and a creature of…

Peace Like a River

by Leif Enger

A “reminder of why we read fiction to begin with” (San Francisco Chronicle), Peace Like a River is Leif Enger’s extraordinary debut novel—a heroic quest, a…

A Peculiar Grace

by Jeffrey Lent

“Family-fracturing secrets are at the heart of Lent’s luminous third novel, a transcendent story about the healing power of love and art. . ….

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…