FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"This novel succeeds both as a story and an illumination of storytelling."
A beguiling exercise in metafiction, one that tells an engrossing story from various perspectives while undermining the possibility of truth in storytelling.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"One of those rare thrillers whose revelations actually intensify its suspense instead of dissipating it. The final pages are chilling."
A perfect wife's disappearance plunges her husband into a nightmare as it rips open ugly secrets about his marriage and, just maybe, his culpability in her death.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"A lyrical little novel about hope triumphing over adversity."
Makine presents a story within a story and thus winds up focusing on the lives of two "unknown men."
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Even if the plot and themes are second-hand, this is an emotionally and intellectually astute debut."
Edith Wharton's
The Age of Innocence gets a reboot in this novel set in a present-day London Jewish enclave.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2012
"A novel that satisfies all expectations in some very familiar ways. "
A family melodrama that encompasses both tragedy and farce, as an upper-middle-class clan gathers to mourn a dead son and perhaps move on.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2012
"Independently intelligible but best appreciated after volume one--and with a huge surprise twist in the last sentence. "
Part two of the topnotch space opera begun with
Leviathan Wakes (2011), from Corey (aka Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck).
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