An Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) In this moving memoir, world-famous ceramicist Edmund de Waal inherits a collection of Japanese carvings called netsuke, then tracks them through his family, a nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna.
With an unusual, disarming blend of autobiography and cultural commentary, noted poet and critic Wayne Koestembaum takes us through a spectrum of mortifying circumstances -- in history, literature, art, current events, music, film and even his own life.
The bestselling author of Out Stealing Horses returns with a novel possessing "a quality that I can only call charm, or something like charm. . . . It exerts a gravitational pull on the reader" (Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review, Notable Book of the Year).
From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved comes a provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.
The author of LIMITLESS, now a major motion picture, returns with "the colussus of Irish crime fiction, what Mystic River did for Dennis Lehane, Winterland should do for Alan Glynn, it is a noir masterpiece, the bar against which all future works will be judged" (Ken Bruen).
A woman named Gin trapped in a life of drudgery in WWII Australia. . . An Italian soldier far from home. . . Two exiles find solace in each other in this "radiant" debut (Chicago Tribune).
