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The Star of Istanbul

by Robert Olen Butler

“The Star of Istanbul has it all: history galore, exotic foreign settings, a world-weary yet engaging protagonist, villains in abundance and a romance worthy of Bogart and Bergman.” —BookPage…

Holidays in Heck, by P.J. O’Rourke

by P. J. O'Rourke

The follow-up to the classic Holidays in Hell, P. J. O’Rourke’s Holidays in Heck is the slightly less hazardous, slightly more mature, but still very funny collection of his classic…

Peace Like a River

by Leif Enger

A “reminder of why we read fiction to begin with” (San Francisco Chronicle), Peace Like a River is Leif Enger’s extraordinary debut novel—a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story,…

The World Beneath

by Cate Kennedy

“Written in precise and singing prose, [Kennedy’s] powerful first novel . . . [is] a work of mythic depth, lyrical description, and gripping suspense.” —Adelaide Advertiser…

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

by Barry Hannah

“A literary event . . . A new voice of the South whose characters roamed as far as Asia and who were citizens of modern anxiety. . . . A…

Querelle

by Jean Genet

“Querelle is a sailor, assassin, dealer in opium, homosexual, thief, and traitor. . . . Genet takes seriously the threat latent in sexuality, and drags us with him to a…

The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez

by John Rechy

“A gritty picture of life on the cusp . . . vividly rendered.” —Kirkus Reviews…

The Voices

by Susan Elderkin

“A reader can feel [Elderkin’s] human characters being ripped from the earth, a reader can feel the children being ripped form their parent, and a reader with a good ear…

Mr. Spaceman

by Robert Olen Butler

“A novel of surprising poignance . . . Amusingly quirky . . . [Portrays] a human world that’s both in thrall to a tabloid culture of quick money and in…

The Fall of the Stone City

by Ismail Kadare

A rich short novel in Kadare’s unique style, The Fall of the Stone City is a tale of dictatorship, resistance, and magic, set in the most tumultuous period of Albania’s…