Bankei Zen

Cat Brushing

A rousing and original debut story collection that probes the erotic, emotional, and intellectual lives of elder women, Cat Brushing will be published in the author’s 80th year…

The Great Divorce

“Modern Americans, bombarded with stories of celebrity divorces, probably assume that the tabloid breakup is a recent phenomenon. This lively, well-written and engrossing tale proves them wrong.” —The New York…

Handel’s Bestiary

From a master of literary crime fiction, a literary, visual, and musical exploration of Handel’s arias….

Loving Che

“A beautiful and quite possible reinvention of history.” –Alan Cheuse, NPR…

A Personal Matter

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

Radical

From NBCC-winning author of Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo, Radical is a provocative memoir and an intercultural feminist lexicon of a sojourn in New York that upended her sense of self…

Casualties of Truth

…a riveting literary novel with the sharp edges of a thriller about the abuses of history and the costs of revenge, set between Washington, D.C., and Johannesburg, South Africa  …

Cold Skin

“Sentence by sentence, Piñol’s first novel offers a tightly crafted allegory of human brutality, both fascinating and repellent.” —Publishers Weekly…

Blitzkrieg

From a well-regarded military historian, a riveting and richly detailed reassessment of one of the most shocking military victories of all time.