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They’re Cows, We’re Pigs

by Carmen Boullosa

“A word-drunk picaresque novel . . . Boullosa’s vivid and visceral descriptions provide hallucinatory images of the pirates’ raping and pillaging, their battles in the jungle and at sea.” –The…

Steps

by Jerzy Kosinski

“By some miracle of training, which recalls the linguistic bravado of Conrad and Nabokov, he is already a master of pungent and disciplined English prose. Simply as a stylist, Kosinski…

A Spell of Winter

by Helen Dunmore

“[Dunmore] beautifully captures paranoia, how it feels to wonder if people smell guilt on your skin and–most powerfully–how you can rationalize an act until you convince yourself it never even…

Silent Snow

by Marla Cone

“A riveting narrative as notable for its conversational fluency as for the clarity of its alarming information. . . . Cone’s superb and affecting delineation of the Arctic’s chemical crisis…

A Quiet Life

by Kenzaburo Oe

“[These] ordinary lives . . . are movingly illuminated . . . portraits drawn with affection, insight and that wry humor . . . that is one of the defining…

Prosperous Friends

by Christine Schutt

“Give me the tough, adamantine beauty of Christine Schutt’s writing any day. Her new novel . . . is Portrait of a Lady one hundred and thirty years on, except…

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson

“A daring, unconventional comic novel . . . by employing quirky anecdotes, which are told with romping humor, and by splicing various parables into the narrative, Winterson allows herself the…

Not a Happy Camper

by Mindy Schneider

“Hilarious . . . [Mindy Schneider] draws a funny portrait of her younger self in a summer setting that anyone who has ever drunk bug juice will cringingly recognize.” —Kate…

Jasmine

by Bharati Mukherjee

“A fable, a kind of impressionistic prose-poem, about being an exile, a refugee, a spiritual vagabond in the world today; Mukherjee has eloquently succeeded.” –The New York Times…

What It Is Like to Go to War, by Karl Marlantes

by Karl Marlantes

From the author of the New York Times best seller Matterhorn, which has sold over 250,000 copies, What It Is Like to Go to War is a powerful nonfiction book…