Tag Archives: Literary

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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 Altrad

This powerful debut novel by Syrian-born French billionaire Mohed Altrad follows Maïouf, a boy who is a perpetual outsider, from the desert tribe of…

Baise-Moi (Rape Me)

by Virginie Despentes

“A small revolution.” –Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly

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)…

Auto da Fay

by Fay Weldon

“All the characteristics of Weldon’s fiction–stinging wit, jaunty prose, memorable bon mots–are present in this kaleidoscope peregrination through six decades of picaresque adventures. ….

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

by Dubravka Ugresic

“[A] strange and wonderful book . . . I couldn’t stop reading. . . . Ugresic is affecting and eloquent . . . [and…

As God Commands

by Niccolò Ammaniti

The award-winning new novel by Niccolò Ammaniti is “a rollickingly dark horror-comic, a grueling piece of fun” by a “fearsomely gifted writer” (The Independent)

Asleep

by Banana Yoshimoto

“Ms. Yoshimoto’s writing is lucid, earnest and disarming, as emotionally observant as Jane Smiley’s, as fluently readable as Anne Tyler’s.” –The New York Times

The Assault on Tony’s

by John O'Brien

“O’Brien’s singular voice . . . [takes] us deep into an alcoholic’s world that few others have described so well.” —The New York Times…

At the Full and Change of the Moon

by Dionne Brand

“[Brand has] a lush and exuberant style that may put some readers in mind of Toni Morrison or Edwidge Danticat.” –The New York Times Book Review…