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This wickedly fun debut is a stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives intertwine over the course of a summer, by a sharp new voice in fiction.

Sad Tiger is built on the facts of a series of devastating events. Neige Sinno was seven years old when her stepfather started sexually abusing her. At nineteen, she decided to break the silence that is so common in all cultures around sexual violence. This led to a public trial and prison for her stepfather, and Sinno started a new life in Mexico.

From the opening story, "Willing" - about a second-rate movie actress in her 30s who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being - Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America. Lorrie Moore explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.

""Engrossing historical fiction…A touching, thrilling heartbreak for any reader.” --USA Today This stunning debut novel set in the fascinating world of Cold War Soviet ballet follows the fates of twin sisters whose bond is competitive, complicated, but never broken. Maya and Natasha are twin...

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book Review The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of...

When Juliet Montague's husband disappears, so does she. As far as the conservative Jewish community in which she lives is concerned, she is invisible. She does her best to conform to their rules, but then on her thirtieth birthday she does something unexpected. Instead of the fridge she has scrimped for, she impulsively spends her savings on a portrait of herself.It is the first in a series of portraits that punctuate Juliet's adult life as she joins London's lively post-war art scene and proves to be an astute spotter of talent.

A woman on the edge of the sea finds a girl on the edge of life. Brittle but not yet broken, Ia Pendilly ekes out a fierce life in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall. In years of living with Bran - her embattled, battering cousin and common law husband - she's never yet had her own baby. So when she discovers the waif washed up on the shore, Ia takes the risk and rescues her.

For 500 years we've been looking at the Mona Lisa, and it turns out that she's been looking right back at us. Over the centuries, few could hear her voice, but now we are let into the secret, as she tells us her story in her own words - a tale of rivalry, murder and heartbreak. And a mystery of Leonardo's greatest lost painting. Weaving through the years, she takes us from the dazzling world of da Vinci's Florentine studio to the French courts at Fontainebleau and Versailles, and into the 20th century.

A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky's most radical work of fiction. In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory, and even sadistic nature. Yet in Dostoyevsky's most extreme and disturbing character, there is the uncomfortable flicker of recognition of the human condition. When the narrator ventures above ground, he attends a dinner with a group of old school friends.

Sie ist jung und erfolgreich, als Schwarze Frau hat sie es in den Olymp der Londoner Hochfinanz geschafft. Ihr Freund kommt aus dem alten Empire, aus betuchtem Hause. Doch als sie zu einer Gartenparty bei seiner Familie eingeladen wird, muss sie am eigenen Körper erfahren, dass erlittenes Unrecht tiefere Wurzeln geschlagen hat, als sie dachte. Ein außergewöhnlicher Roman, der die toxische Wirkung der Vergangenheit in unseren Worten und in unserem Besitz nachzeichnet. Natasha Brown macht das Drama der Gegenwart erfahrbar, das sich aus dem jahrhundertalten Erbe von Sexismus, Rassismus, Klassismus und Kolonialismus ergibt.

Bliv voksen midt i finanskrisen. Vær flink i fjendske omgivelser. Gå på universitetet. Få en uddannelse. Få et job. Gør alt det rigtige. Køb en lejlighed. Køb kunst. Køb en form for lykke. Men vigtigst af alt: Duk hovedet. Vær stille. Og fortsæt. Fortælleren i "Samling" er en ung sort britisk kvinde. Hun forbereder sig på at skulle til en fornem havefest hos sin kærestes velhavende forældre. Samtidig reflekterer hun over, hvem hun egentlig er. Denne samling af alt det rigtige.

¿Qué significa ser mujer y ser negra hoy en Inglaterra pese a tener una carrera de éxito? Una mujer repasa su vida y toma una decisión. La protagonista y narradora de esta novela, una mujer negra británica, repasa su vida y se prepara para acudir a una fiesta. Es una triunfadora. Lo ha hecho todo bien: tiene un buen trabajo en el sector financiero y la acaban de promocionar; además tiene un novio de familia adinerada cuyos padres son los que han preparado la fiesta en la campiña inglesa.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK: Finalist The Folio Prize 2022 & The Orwell Prize 2022. Naratoarea din Adunare este o tânără britanică de culoare. Ea se pregătește să participe la o petrecere extravagantă în grădina familiei iubitului său, situată într-o regiune rurală îndepărtată, în Anglia. În același timp, se gândește cu grijă la piesele din care este alcătuită. Pe măsură ce trec clipele și viitorul bate la ușă, nu se poate gândi decât la o întrebare: oare e timpul să renunțe la toate? Adunare este povestea poveștilor pe care le trăim.

Cee Cee Porter came to Nashville as a young woman with a handful of love songs she'd written for her husband, Bucky, and a dream of joining the ranks of country music queens. After one of the songs became a hit, Bucky convinced her to trade her career for a family. Meanwhile, he founded DMG Records and became a major power player in Nashville.

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Whip-smart and compulsively readable. . . both a wildly entertaining adventure story and a meditation on what it means to love your children—fiercely and imperfectly.”—Oprah Daily “Springs alive to explore questions that stump scientists and families, problems of...

The seductive story of a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage, with a spellbinding psychological thriller at its core. In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies.

1904, Chudniv, Ukraine. Playing hide-and-seek in bucolic fields of sunflowers, young Jakob never imagines the horrific secrets he will carry as he and his brother escape through genocide-ridden Eastern Europe. 1994, South Haven, Michigan. At age 94, time is running out for any hope that Jakob can be free from his burden of guilt. When Jakob’s wife dies, he and his daughter, Nel, are forced to face the realities of his worsening dementia. The God they have both been running from shows that he redeems not only broken years, but also the future.

Three days after arriving in Zimbabwe, Natalie discovers an abandoned newborn baby on a hill near her uncle’s farm. 115 years earlier, the hill was home to the Mazowe village where Chief Tafara governed at a time of great unrest. Faced with taxation, abductions and loss of their land at the hands of the white settlers, Tafara joined forces with the neighbouring villages in what became the first of many uprisings. A Child Called Happiness is a story of hope, resilience and reclamation, proving that the choices made by our ancestors echo for many generations to come.

Although the Arabic world is as diverse as any other region, customs and traditions endure. Injustices continue. And then there is Laila. Trapped in a marriage to a man she finds physically revolting, Laila begins to realize secret truths about her sexuality, about her very identity as a modern Jordanian woman. “Good” Arab women may have occasional lurid fantasies about dominating men in bed … but Laila actually finds the strength to do it. And when she dies suddenly in an encounter with a lover, the stakes for the survivors become a matter of life and death.