Tag Archives: Literary

Death by Water

by Kenzaburo Oe

Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe’s new novel is a finely woven masterpiece about a writer who searches for the truth behind his father’s death…

Death of a River Guide

by Richard Flanagan

“A triumphant tour de force, and a novel that succeeds brilliantly in its audacious design and offers the smart reader complex and memorable rewards.”…

Death of an Ordinary Man

by Glen Duncan

“Death of An Ordinary Man plays like an answer to the The Lovely Bones . . . . In this superb, uncoercively moving novel,…

The Deep Green Sea

by Robert Olen Butler

“[Robert Olen Butler] is our poet of the Vietnam experience, our Sophocles, and The Deep Green Sea is a drama about . . ….

Deafening

by Frances Itani

“Moving and memorable. . . . Itani is an artist who understands what to include and what to leave out, when to whisper and when to shout. . . . Hers is a fiction of quiet but steady revelation. . . . Itani’s writing is merely breathtaking.” –Dan Cryer, Newsday…

The Daylight Gate

by Jeanette Winterson

“More than a shivery treat . . . [the novel] touches on nearly every aspect of witchcraft, both historical and imaginative . . ….

The Dead Circus

by John Kaye

“A looming thundercloud of a book; it begins in a Southern California that seems permanently infused with sunshine and ends in one that has…

Damned to Fame

by James R. Knowlson

“If anyone could know this private man, Knowlson does. And tells.” –Time

Dancing Arabs

by Sayed Kashua

“Gritty and agile. . . . As a portrait of a young man’s drift into emotional no man’s land, [Dancing Arabs] has the feel…

Cubop City Blues

by Pablo Medina

“Rich and stunning . . . with an incredibly intricate scaffolding . . . Another triumph.” —Rigoberto Gonzalez, Los Angeles Review of Books