FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"An exciting and quirky mystery that seamlessly shifts between past and present, offering a number of finely delineated characters and a strong sense of life on the reservation and the beauties of a hostile land."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"An agonizing moral nightmare interspersed with flashbacks to happier times whose import becomes clear only in the final chapter."
This first novel from storyteller Kardos (
One Last Good Time, 2010) leads three ordinary guys into a dark wood and turns the screws on them.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Darkly lush, filled with an irresistibly sad glamour, this is a memorable debut. "
FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Stern weaves an intricate and clever web of stories steeped in both sacred and mundane Jewish culture."
"Mischief" is indeed the operative term here, for Stern's characters are subtle, slyly humorous and at times poignant.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Smith takes big risks here, but some might need to read this twice before all the pieces fit together, and more conventionally minded readers might abandon it in frustration."
A wildly ambitious jigsaw puzzle of a novel, one that shuffles pieces of chronology, identity, ethnicity and tone, undermining cohesion and narrative momentum as it attempts to encompass a London neighborhood that is both fixed and fluid.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Grace and empathy infuse this melancholy landscape of complex loyalties enfolded by brutal history, creating a novel of peculiar, mysterious, tragic beauty."
The unexpected relationship between a war-scarred woman and an exiled gardener leads to a journey through remorse to a kind of peace.
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