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Travels in Siberia:
Travels in Siberia


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"[Travels in Siberia is] an uproarious, sometimes dark yarn filled with dubious meals, broken-down vehicles, abandoned slave-labor camps and ubiquitous statues of Lenin—On the Road meets The Gulag Archipelago . . . As he demonstrated in Great Plains, Frazier is the most amiable of obsessives . . . he peels away Russia's stolid veneer to reveal the quirkiness and humanity beneath . . . Frazier has the gumption and sense of wonder shared by every great travel writer, from Bruce Chatwin to Redmond O'Hanlon, as well as the ability to make us see how the most trivial or ephemeral detail is part of the essential texture of a place . . . [An] endlessly fascinating tale."—Joshua Hammer, The New York Times Book Review
Hunger: A Novel
Hunger



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"The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun. They were all Hansun's disciples: Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler . . . and even such American writers as Fitzgerald and Hemingway."—Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick



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“Handke became the enfant terrible of the European avant-garde, denouncing all social, psychological and historical categories of experience as species of linguistic fraud. But [he] has aged well and now…is regarded as one of the most important writers in German.” —Richard Locke, The New York Times
The Quiet Girl: A Novel
The Quiet Girl



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"Like Smilla's Sense of Snow, The Quiet Girl spins a labyrinthine plot, sometimes looping into the past to fill in context as scenes unfold. This time around, though, Mr. Høeg adds a theological theme. In The Quiet Girl, Krone wants nothing less than to hear the sound of God. The novel teems with flashbacks, philosophical asides, ironical observations, theological musing, gripping scenes and events (the setting is again Denmark), and a sort of magic realism that elevates to celestial heights the uncanny human capacity to hear . . . [The Quiet Girl] takes it serious themes seriously, as many novels do not, and, with its busy plot, it never loses a thriller's sense of go."—Diane Scharper, The Wall Street Journal
The Line of Beauty: A Novel
The Line of Beauty



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Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
A New York Times Notable Book of 2004

"A magnificent comedy of manners. Hollinghurst's alertness to the tiniest social and tonal shifts never slackens, and positively luxuriates in a number of unimprovably droll set pieces . . . [an] outstanding novel."—New York Times Book Review
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
Anne Frank



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"It is important to me to teach about the Holocaust in a way that puts it into historical context, portrays how brutal it actually was, and makes it personal, all at the same time. Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography, does all of this in one compelling, hard-to-put-down volume . . . My challenge as a teacher . . . is always to find the most engaging resources and to make them accessible to my students. Whatever we are studying, I want it to come to life for students, in all of its complexity. [This book] presents a story about the life of Anne Frank, and puts it into historical context."—Holly Friel, Social Studies Teacher, Ida B. Wells High School
Small Island: A Novel
Small Island



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Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize

"A perfectly crafted tale of crossed lives and oceans. Big themes—abandonment, survival, racial awareness, forgiveness—are not always weighty enough to chart a smooth course over constant shifts in voice, time, and place. Levy's outstanding talent is her ability to control these upheavals. From Kingston to London to Calcutta, Levy deftly directs her story with twin reins of violence and humor."—San Francisco Chronicle
The Appointment: A Novel
The Appointment



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"Powerful , , , Muller achieves something beautiful. She has wrested poetry from one woman's desire to remain human in an inhuman system."—Newsday
The Hunger Angel: A Novel
The Hunger Angel



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“A wonderful, passionate, poetic work of literature . . . Herta Muller is a writer who releases great emotional power through a highly sophisticated, image studded, and often expressionistic prose.”—Neal Ascherson, The New York Review of Books
Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
Out Stealing Horses



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We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It...
I Curse the River of Time: A Novel
I Curse the River of Time



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“His sense of dislocation seeps into the structure of the book, which fades between scenes with dreamy confusion, but Petterson’s atmospheric prose—melancholy, tempered, and terse—is the real force keeping the various plots in orbit.”—The New Yorker

“Petterson is a master at putting parents and children up the kind of psychic trees from which—minds fogged by anger and longing—they can’t climb down. The stubborn mysteries of family conflict are his subject, and he evokes them in a voice whose straightforwardness belies its subtlety.”—Bob Thompson, The Washington Post

Far North: A Novel
Far North



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This National Book Award finalist and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice is an enthralling, poetic adventure set in post-apocalyptic Siberia.
The Marriage of the Sea: A Novel
The Marriage of the Sea



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In a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo contemplates the ravages of time to his body and his beloved city. In New York, Lach savors his freedom, having just dropped...
Human Croquet: A Novel
Human Croquet



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New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a...
Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel
Behind the Scenes at the Museum



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A deeply moving family story of happiness and heartbreak, Behind the Scenes at the Museum is bestselling author Kate Atkinson's award-winning literary...
Obabakoak: Stories from a Village
Obabakoak



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"A brilliantly inventive writer ... he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny." --A.S. Byatt Obabakoak is a...
The Accordionist's Son: A Novel
The Accordionist's Son



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"The most accomplished novel to date by an internationally celebrated writers" (Bookforum), now in paperback. David Imaz has spent many years living in...
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard:
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard


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First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its...
Crash: A Novel
Crash



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In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways,"...
Concrete Island: A Novel
Concrete Island



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On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island...
Super-Cannes: A Novel
Super-Cannes



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"Ballard is a writer for whom anything is possible—a prose surrealist drawn to extremity and stylized representations of modernity, in which ordinary experience is never what it seems: it is always capable of being transformed into something remarkable."—The Times (London)
The Kindness of Women: A Novel
The Kindness of Women



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In this sequel to his award-winning Empire of the Sun, young James returns to England at the end of World War II. He stumbles through medical study at...
The Marlowe Papers: A Novel
The Marlowe Papers



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You’re the author of the greatest plays of all time. But nobody knows. And if it gets out, you’re dead.  On May 30, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was...
Union Street & Blow Your House Down:
Union Street & Blow Your House Down


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Union Street, Pat Barker's first novel, concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of them are...

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