Rachel Seiffert’s absorbing, internationally acclaimed debut explores the modern German psyche through the experiences of...
In 1969 Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of...
Anita Desai's new book, hailed as "unsparing, yet tender and funny,"* brilliantly confirms her place among today's foremost Indian...
The author of The Stananic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a...
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures fall to the...
The contemporary story of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. Returning to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a...
Molly, the wife of a publisher, sinks swiftly and unexpectedly into madness and death. Two of her ex-lovers meet at her funeral...
The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures.This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive...
When two sisters and a brother meet in their childhood home, past and present collide, leaving a sorrowful portrait of sisterly...
In Tim Winton's comically eccentric novel, set in an Australian fishing village, Jim Buckridge and his girlfriend Georgie begin to...
In this Booker Prize-winning work set in colonial America, Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant...
A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholars search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of...
Masuji Ono was once a painter of the Ukiyo, the traditional pleasure-seeking "fl...
After a brilliant and fulfilling career, Charles Arrowby revels in his perfect refuge, an isolated home by the sea, but soon his...
In Roddy Doyle's novel witty and poignant novel of working-class life in Dublin, 10-year-old Paddy copes with his parents' fights...
Martin Amis turns to a tricky literary conceit to tell the story of an ex-Nazi, Dr. Tod T. Friendly. Friendly is possessed of two...
Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular...
A shell-shocked World War I veteran spends the summer in the village of Oxgodby,...
In Kazuo Ishiguro's fifth novel, Christopher Banks is an English boy growing up in Shanghai. His parents disappear and are...
Set in Venice, two unsuspecting tourists, Colin and Mary, are vulnerable prey for those who know their way around. When searching...
The sequel to The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's Staying On describes the fate of Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley, a British couple who...
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in...
In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie...
This novel chronicles the life of a Canadian woman, born in 1905 out of love and tragedy, and follows her life through marriage...
An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young...