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The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.

From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha and The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting...

Single mom and veterinarian Natalie DeAngelo lost everything the day her two sons were killed in a school shooting. Following her psychiatrist's advice, she decides to sell her once-happy home to escape the immense pain and grief of living there alone. Desperate to find relief from her unspeakable loss, Natalie impetuously commits to honoring her boys' memory and volunteers to assist philanthropist Andrew Gordon at his elephant sanctuary in Northern Thailand. All she wants once she gets there is relief.

The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open, and she comes down the path towards him. Vera. Chance meetings become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. Casting off his lonely life of dreams and quiet violence for this new intoxicating encounter, he longs to know Vera, even to save her. But what is it that Vera isn't telling him?

Nell’anno fatidico in cui il mondo intero sta cambiando, il 1989, due ragazzi della provincia italiana si incontrano su una pista da ballo: nasce un gemellaggio di carne, sudore e fasci di nervi. Un’amicizia fatta di meraviglia, di inevitabili miserie, di viaggi di non formazione alla volta di Amsterdam, Londra, Berlino, Thailandia. Non cercano identità, hanno solo bisogno di andare. A guidarli le onde della musica – di una musica nuova, artificiale, prepotentemente fisica. La storia di due ragazzi e di una generazione alla ricerca di un rito definitivo. Il club, la festa perfetta, il dj.

The Parade's End tetralogy privileges not the conflict of World War I itself, but the impact the war had on its participants and upon society writ large. It is often referred to as one of the greatest 20th century novels, and one of the best depictions of war in literature.