Tag Archives: Literary
The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant
by Pablo Tusset“Engaging and occasionally even uproarious. . . . The book is a pleasure precisely because it so brazenly sloughs off responsibilities to pacing, plot…
Being There
by Jerzy Kosinski“A tantalizing knuckleball of a book delivered with perfectly timed satirical hops and metaphysical flutters.” –Time
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
by Carolyn Chute“Chute’s novel pulses with kinetic energy. It seizes the reader on its opening page with a rhythm, a language, a knock-about country humor unmistakably…
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
by J.P. Donleavy“Donleavy at his best, eloquent, roguish . . . at one with his world and the terrible sadness it contains.” —Newsweek
The Beat Hotel
by Barry Miles“An entertaining narrative about important writers now considered American literary heroes.” –Publishers Weekly
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman
by Andrzej SzczypiorskiReissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardice
Back to Back
by Julia Franck“Franck’s unsparing novel, superbly translated by Anthea Bell, tells a moving story of suffering down the generations in East Berlin.” —Guardian
Badawi
by Mohed AltradThis powerful debut novel by Syrian-born French billionaire Mohed Altrad follows Maïouf, a boy who is a perpetual outsider, from the desert tribe of…
August Frost
by Monique Roffey“A magical fable . . . Roffey handles this modern-day metamorphosis beautifully; her imagery is original, the story completely beguiling.” –Eithne Farry, The Daily Mail (London)…
