FICTION
Released: Feb. 15, 2011
Follett's 1,000-plus-page blockbuster, originally published in 1989, morphs into a sprawling (1.6 GB) iPad app, complete with text, videos and sound.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 17, 2009
"Until the next Munro collection."
Every story collection from Canada's Alice Munro receives such critical plaudits that it's tempting for reviewers to recycle superlatives and readers to take her for granted.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 19, 2008
"Juicy melodrama obscured by the intricacies of problem-solving."
First U.S. publication for a deceased Swedish author (1954–2004); this first of his three novels, a bestseller in Europe, is a labored mystery.
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FICTION
Released: April 15, 2008
"A perfectly balanced portrait of the human condition, encompassing plenty of anger, cruelty and loss without ever losing sight of the equally powerful presences of tenderness, shared pursuits and lifelong loyalty."
The abrasive, vulnerable title character sometimes stands center stage, sometimes plays a supporting role in these 13 sharply observed dramas of small-town life from Strout (
Abide with Me, 2006, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: April 3, 2007
"One of the most entertaining books about writers and their discontents since Boswell's Life of Johnson. A brilliant novel, fully deserving of its high international reputation."
The search for a missing poet is the nominal subject of the late (1953–2003) expatriate Chilean author's blazingly original 1998 masterpiece.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2007
"A superb cautionary tale, and a grim reminder of the continuing cost of ethnic profiling, miscommunication and confrontation."
A young Muslim's American experience raises his consciousness and shapes his future in this terse, disturbing successor to the London-based Pakistani author's first novel,
Moth Smoke (2000).
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