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Alina Bronsky
My Grandmother's Braid
Sharp and tender at once, a humourous take on family dysfunction and human weakness seen through a young boy’s eyes. -
Alina Bronsky
My Grandmother's Braid
Sharp and tender at once, a humourous take on family dysfunction and human weakness seen through a young boy’s eyes. -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Solea
“Izzo digs deep into what makes men weep.” — Time Out New York The third and final installment in the remarkable Marseilles Trilogy ( Total Chaos, Chourmo), Solea continues Jean-Claude Izzo’s distinctive brand of vibrant crime writing, skillfully evoking a time and place... -
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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. -
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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. -
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The Passenger: Greece
“On the Greek island of Ikaria, life is sweet... and very, very long. What is the locals’ secret?” from The island of Long Life by Andrew Anthony -
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The Passenger: Japan
“Some Japanese stories end violently. Others never end at all, but only cut away, at the moment of extreme crisis, to a butterfly, or the wind, or the moon.”—Brian Phillips -
Donatella Di Pietrantonio
A Girl Returned
Set against the stark landscape of Abruzzo, this novel tells a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about families and responsibilities. -
Domenico Starnone
Ties
Ties is the story of a marriage. Like many marriages, this one has been subject to strain, to attrition, to the burden of routine. Yet it has survived intact. -
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.