Michael Chabon

It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat: smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague....

They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram....

It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat....

In Go All the Way, today's best and brightest writers go deep on what certain power pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them....

Detektiv Meyer Landsman vom Morddezernat hat Probleme. Seine Ehe ist am Ende, er trinkt und steckt auch beruflich in einer Sackgasse...

Michael Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art Bechstein, whose confusion and heartache echo the tones of literary forebears like The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield and The Great Gatsby's Nick Carraway....

Chabon's extraordinary story of one turbulent weekend in the life of a struggling writer, a satire of the permanent adolescence of the creative class....

Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm-canny - courageous and above all lucky - is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings....

The keeping of secrets and the telling of lies; sex and desire and ordinary love; existential doubt and model rocketry all feature in this new novel....