FICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
"A compassionate, mystical take on the real price of war."
Young physician navigating postwar chaos in the Balkans tries to make sense of the mysterious death of her beloved grandfather.En route to a rural orphanage with plans on inoculating a group of motherless local kids, 28-year-old Natalia gets the sudden, sad news that her grandfather, a well-respected doctor, has passed away.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 4, 2011
"Quirky, outlandish fiction: To say it's offbeat is to seriously underestimate its weirdness."
A debut novel from Russell (stories:
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, 2006) about female alligator wrestlers, ghost boyfriends and a theme park called World of Darkness.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 14, 2010
"Like the magazine, the collection doesn't distinguish between short stories and novel excerpts, but each piece can be savored as a self-contained whole."
Though many lament the decline of short fiction (and magazines that publish it), we seem to have entered a golden age of the short-story anthology, if the proliferation of annual and themed collections is any indication.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 14, 2010
"Elegant, confident prose brings this tale to life, and though the trope of the road as a journey to self-understanding is a very old one, Mengestu gives it a fresh reading."
A sometimes somber, always searching novel of love, loss and the immigrant experience by Ethiopia-born writer Mengestu (
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, 2006).
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 14, 2010
"Further proof that Li deserves to be considered among the best living fiction writers."
A stellar assortment of stories about struggles to escape and connect in contemporary China.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2010
"Audacious, risky and powerfully bleak, with the author's unflinching artistry its saving grace."
A successful lawyer finds himself blindsided by a mysterious affliction in Ferris' sophomore effort, an even more ambitious and provocative novel than PEN/Hemingway Award winner
Then We Came to the End (2007).
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