FICTION
Released: Oct. 13, 2009
"Widely read in his homeland but rarely translated into English, Vámos should win a new American audience with his beautifully crafted novel of connection and continuity."
A bestseller in Hungary, this family chronicle focuses on firstborn sons across 12 generations.
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FICTION
Released: April 21, 2003
"A well-constructed if somewhat dispiriting, perhaps even nihilistic, tale."
The American debut of Dutch novelist Van Loon is a kind of domestic thriller about a young father who learns that his dead wife's son is not his child.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 20, 1996
"A riveting tale of an unforgiving and cruel world. (Author tour)"
From a small rural southern world of guns and hounds and whiskey, Mississippi writer Brown (Joe, 1991, etc.) fashions a redneck tragedy of timeless dimensions—a novel in which fate drives the plot to its necessarily bloody denouement.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2001
"The unrelenting cleverness gets tiring, although the one-liners frequently ring uncomfortably true."
From the nastily comic Barrowcliffe (
Girlfriend 44, 2001), the perfect Hugh Grant vehicle about a too-clever-by-half Londoner who faces a stew of moral and emotional crises when he learns that both his fiancé and his much younger girlfriend are joyfully pregnant, thanks to him.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1999
"A relatively simple story, written with an entrancing, gentle eloquence: O'Hagan offers a deeply moving meditation on losses, both personal and historical, and on the tide of time through generations."
The first fiction from Glaswegian journalist O'Hagan (The Missing, 1996) a muted, melancholy, and gently touching tale of a son who returns home for the death of his grandfather and finds both the private, and the public, dimensions of a changing Scotland.
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FICTION
Released: May 5, 2009
"Despite some awkward flashbacks, Gilman's debut keeps the tension strong while showing that Philadelphia isn't just about brotherly love."
An ex-cop must confront his past when he moves into his late mother's West Philly row home in Minotaur/PWA's Best First Private Eye Novel of 2009.
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