FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"To call this book enjoyable or satisfying feels wrong, because the deeds are so ugly. But it's terrifying and worthy. Human nature has never looked so raw."
A thriller set in early 1930s Berlin. People who can't bear to read about violence toward children should skip this book; those with sensitive stomachs may want to look elsewhere, too.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"With the hypnotic charm of her Welsh lilt, natural storyteller Gebbie whittles tales from a hard bone of loss to create a profoundly moving world."
After two collections of stories published in England, Wales native Gebbie sets her first, deceptively loose-limbed novel in a Welsh mining town whose present-day residents remain imprinted by a long-ago mining disaster.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"A novel of "the invisible tissue of civilization," of "community or freedom," and of the precious fragility of lives in the balance."
An astonishing novel, both in ambition and achievement, filled with revelations that appear inevitable in retrospect, amid the cycle of life and death.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"This exciting and thoughtful story marks McCarthy as one of sci-fi's most promising new talents, and bodes well for the series' forthcoming third installment."
The second novel in McCarthy's Subterrene War series (
Germline, 2011, etc.) is a standalone tale that encompasses theology and existentialism in its story of a genetically engineered warrior discovering her own path.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"Chung's limpid prose matches her emotional intelligence."
A young woman struggles to understand her sometimes-competing roles as daughter, sister, scholar and Korean American in Chung's darkly luminous debut.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2012
"First-class fiction."
A novel that peers into relationships in the small town of Mira Flores in northern California.
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