FICTION
Released: April 24, 2012
"A director and screenwriter as well as a novelist, Comencini is adept at creating an extraordinary portrait of psychologically scarred characters. "
Two strangers meet in the Italian Dolomites and are equally attracted to and repelled by each other.
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FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
A novel as contemporary as international terrorism and the war in Iraq and as timeless as mortality, from one of Britain's literary masters.
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FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
"This is the first of Icelandic author Ómarsdóttir's novels to appear in English, and it shouldn't be the last. Somewhere in the reader's mind, Catch-22 echoes faintly."
FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
"A funky little action comedy that whips enough social satire and ethical dilemmas on readers to enlighten while it entertains."
A San Francisco private eye gets up to his ears in femme fatales, the Chinese mob and one hell of a run of bad luck.
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FICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
"With this seemingly slight day-in-the-life tale, Korkeakivi produces a knowing comedy of manners, a politically charged thriller and a genuinely moving study of the human heart."
This beautifully modulated first novel follows one day in the life of a British diplomat's American wife as she organizes a dinner party crucial to her husband's career.
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FICTION
Released: April 12, 2012
"Complex in theme, complex in narrative, this is a masterful literary exploration of the specter of conscience and the formidable cost of reconciliation."
In Flanery's debut literary fiction, Sam Leroux has a publisher's assignment to write the biography of a famous South African author, Clare Wald, imperious, reticent, evasive about her writing and disinclined to discuss her catastrophic personal life.
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