Tag Archives: Literary

The Impostor

by Damon Galgut

“Fast-paced and breathless . . . Canning is a memorable creation, a sort of African Gatsby, but without the glamour.” —William Skidelsky, The Observer

In Another Place, Not Here

by Dionne Brand

“The remarkable poet Dionne Brand now gives us a fierce, sensuous novel of women in migration–political and emotional. Concrete and visionary as a dream,…

I, Lucifer

by Glen Duncan

“Duncan’s witty and perverse, yet somehow life-affirming. Readers . . . won’t want to put [I, Lucifer] down.” –Brendan Driscoll, Booklist

I’ll Steal You Away

by Niccolò Ammaniti

From the author of the critically acclaimed best seller and Miramax indie hit film I’m Not Scared, a charming, tragicomic tale of a philandering…

Icelander

by Dustin Long

“Icelander is . . . a kind of Series of Unfortunate Events for adults . . . It is writing born out of hysterical laughter and a lingering sense of childhood adventure.” —Newsday…

Hunts in Dreams

by Tom Drury

The award-winning author of The End of Vandalism pens “a gorgeous, inexplicably sad and funny novel about screwups trying to do better” (Salon).

Husband and Wife

by Zeruya Shalev

“Harrowingly thorough in its cataloguing of marital defeat. . . . An acutely intimate portrait of a relationship.” –Donna Rifkind, Baltimore Sun

I Married You for Happiness

by Lily Tuck

“One of the most beautiful love songs in novel form you’ll ever read . . . Tuck is a genius with moments . ….

The Howling Miller

by Arto Paasilinna

“The narrative, with its episodic chapters and fablelike tone, follows Huttunen’s interactions with an amused eye . . . Paasilinna describes the frenetic inner…

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

by Kiran Desai

Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Kiran Desai’s dazzling debut novel is a hilarious story of life, love, and family that tells the surprising…