Previews (17 Listed volumes)
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Hervé Le Corre
In the Shadow of the Fire
In the Shadow of the Fire traces the Communards’ tragic odyssey, while following a breathless criminal investigation. -
Catherine Chidgey
Remote Sympathy
The looming presence of the nearby prison camp – lying just beyond a patch of forest – is the only blot to mar what is otherwise an idyllic life in Buchenwald. -
Ben Hopkins
Cathedral
Ambitious, immersive, a remarkable feat of imagination, Cathedral tells a sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art, and earthly desire. It deftly combines historical fiction, the literary novel of ideas, and a tale of adventure and intrigue. -
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The Passenger: Turkey
Poised between competing ideologies, secularism and piousness, a militaristic nationalism and exceptional openness to foreigners, Turkey defies easy labels and categories. -
Ahmet Altan
Love in the Days of the Rebellion
With striking clarity and imaginative power, Altan evokes the traumas and upheavals of Ottoman history, showing how—over a hundred years later—the events and wounds of that time still resonate in the tensions and contradictions of today’s Turkey. -
Carlo Piano, Renzo Piano
Atlantis. A Journey in Search of Beauty
World-famous architect Renzo Piano and his son Carlo set sail from Genoa one late Summer day, guided by the ancestral desire felt by many explorers before them: to find Atlantis. -
Massimo Recalcati
The Night in Gethsemane
In The Night in Gethsemane, Massimo Recalcati, one of Italy’s highest regarded psychoanalysts, traces the relationship between biblical text and psychoanalytical theory, revealing human life in all its fragility and its agony. -
Charles Yu
Interior Chinatown
Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet. -
Deborah Eisenberg
Your Duck Is My Duck
By turns dark and hilarious, at times solemn and mysterious, Your Duck Is My Duck cements Deborah Eisenberg’s reputation as one of America’s greatest living writers of fiction. -
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The Passenger: Brazil
Today the challenge of telling the story of this extraordinary country consists in finding its enduring vitality amid the apparent melancholy.