Tag Archives: Literary

Let It Be Morning

by Sayed Kashua

Soon to be a major motion picture from award–winning director Eran Kolirin

Let the Games Begin

by Niccolò Ammaniti

An irresistible, explosive, and mordantly funny satire of the vices and virtues of our time that “may well be the print version of La…

Let’s Put the Future Behind Us

by Jack Womack

“Remarkable . . . Mr. Womack has enmeshed his character in a Moscow landscape as absurd and scary as the phantasmagoric Moscow in Mikhail…

Leaving Las Vegas

by John O'Brien

“A brutal and unflinching portrait of the low life in the city of high rollers, Leaving Las Vegas is both shocking and curiously exhilarating….

Leaving Tabasco

by Carmen Boullosa

“Raucously imagined . . . a meditation on family, community and storytelling. . . . In her hard-won wisdom and courage, Delmira is ….

Legends of the Fall

by Jim Harrison

“Jim Harrison stands high among the writers of his generation. This book is rich, alive, and shatteringly visceral. A triumph.” —New Yorker

Leila

by J.P. Donleavy

This sequel to The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman finds Darcy desperately departing Dublin as a pauper. But once home amid the leaking, bat-infested…

Lempriere’s Dictionary

by Lawrence Norfolk

“Norfolk’s ferocious, greedy originality of angle and expression evokes continuous astonishment.” –The Times Literary Supplement

Lenin’s Kisses

by Yan Lianke

A fiercely satirical story of greed and corruption from “one of China’s most successful fiction writers” (The New York Times).

The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna

by Dagoberto Gilb

“His language is direct and strikingly honest, and yet he is also able to illuminate life’s transforming moments with a delicate appreciation of their…