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Smuggled

by Christina Shea

A vivid and deeply affecting novel about a woman’s life in Eastern Europe after she is smuggled across a critical border as a child in the waning days of WWII….

The Siege

by Helen Dunmore

…the generalizations of conventional histories. In The Siege, the specific becomes epic as five people huddle in one freezing room and Dunmore describes what is happening to them in language…

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

by Gary Kinder

“A marvelous tale, with generous portions of history, adventure, intrigue, heroism, and high technology interwoven . . . Gary Kinder has the skill to put it all together, and luckily…

Shards

by Ismet Prcic

“Impressive . . . Inventive . . . Pushes against convention, logic, chronology . . . Ambitious and deep . . . [Prcic] succeeds at writing an unsettling and powerful…

Umbrella

by Will Self

A history of the entire twentieth-century’s technological searchlight refracted through the dark glass of a long-term mental institution….

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…

Quiet Days in Clichy

by Henry Miller

Henry Miller’s celebration of love, art, and the Bohemian life at a time when the world was simpler and slower….

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

by Anne Enright

“A powerhouse of vivid contrast and contradiction. . . . In a swashbuckling prologue replete with arresting sexual imagery, Enright lays bare her novel’s epic sweep. . . . Like…

A Personal Matter

by Kenzaburo Oe

“In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.” –Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor…

Peace Kills

by P. J. O'Rourke

“Peace Kills is war coverage in the great tradition of Catch 22 and M*A*S*H: Wars can be right or wrong, but they are always crazy and frightening in the center…