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FICTION
Released: April 23, 2010
PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA
by Peter Carey
"Quirky and erudite, but the payoff in human-interest terms is meager."
A New World historical novel from Carey, the two-time Australian-born winner of the Man Booker prize. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2010
Kirkus Star PRIVATE LIFE
by Jane Smiley
"Her most ferocious novel since the Pulitzer Prize–winning A Thousand Acres (1991) and every bit as good. "
Smiley roars back from the disappointing Ten Days in the Hills (2007) with a scarifying tale of stifling marriage and traumatizing losses. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 27, 2010
THE SONDERBERG CASE
by Elie Wiesel, translated by Catherine Temerson
"A slim novel that's heavy on philosophy."
The latest from the Nobel Peace Prize–winning author of Night(1960) asks big questions about good and evil, art and reality, yet ultimately finds its narrator concluding, "Suddenly, I don't understand anything anymore. Why life? Why death?" Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
Kirkus Star THE WIDOWER'S TALE
by Julia Glass
"Glass's perfect plot gives each character his or her due, in an irresistible pastoral tragicomedy that showcases the warmth and wisdom of one of America's finest novelists, approaching if not already arrived at her peak."
Another heartwarming winner from the NBA-anointed Massachusetts author. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 12, 2010
Kirkus Star NEMESIS
by Philip Roth
"For it is within these short novels that Roth tackles nothing less than the human condition, which finds its nemesis in the mirror."
For those who monitor the growing list of books by Philip Roth, his forthcoming, Nemesis, presents a revelation as startling as the discovery of a planet or the alignment of a new constellation. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 12, 2010
Kirkus Star OUR KIND OF TRAITOR
by John le Carré

Le Carré uses still another aspect of international relations in the new world order--the powerful, equivocal position of money launderers to the Russian mob--to put a new spin on a favorite theme: the betrayal that inevitably follows from sharply divided loyalties. Read full book review >