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A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR: "Lit with remembered warmth, happiness, laughter, and a kind of lightness characteristic of its writer." (James Wood, The New Yorker)“Epigrammatic and intimate . . . A consolation rather than a provocation, and occasionally darkly funny...
"Wondrous.…This insightful, complex story about a late-in-life romance is unforgettable." —Joan Frank, The Washington PostWhat risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Kirkus Reviews • One of the Los...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A daring story of adventure, friendship, and love in the shadow of WWII” (Harper’s Bazaar) from the renowned author of Ape House and Water for Elephants“Gripping, compelling . . . Gruen’s characters are vividly drawn and her scenes are...
This literary thriller "explores the vexing question of whether art can be simultaneously beautiful and hateful . . . dazzle[s] while delving into dark places (NPR's Fresh Air).At the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music...
Nevil Shute’s most powerful novel—a bestseller and a post-apocalyptic fiction classic for decades after its 1957 publication—is an unforgettable vision of a dystopian future in the aftermath of World War III.“The most haunting evocation we have of a world...after an...
Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The...
“Bewitching … Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller.” —The New York TimesA novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the DeadA woman settles...
The beloved Southern Gothic classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century."A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and...
This novel of a family secret revealed as a famous painter nears the end of her life is a "heart-lifting testament to the power of memory and love and art" (Margaret Renkl, author of Late Migrations).Ninety-three-year-old Violet Swan has spent a lifetime translating...
Now published in the United States for the first time—an early novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes.Isabel Delancey, a classical violinist, has always taken her comfortable life for granted....