Franco Sorrentino's romantic relationship with Devorah Kirschenbaum draws him inadvertently into white Leftist student political activism on the eve of the collapse of the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa.
Borrow leaves the dingle where Lavengro ended, shoes horses, buys a fine mare, drinks ale with a Hungarian, argues with a postillion, and keeps company with Romany people who are neither picturesque nor grateful.
Becky Sharp leaves school by throwing the dictionary out of the carriage window and climbs, by charm and calculation, through a society that deserves her.
A boy /man, who blames it on his parents for his having of nine meals a day, visit a nearby hospital where he is told something by the doctor that might change his whole life forever.
AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'Brilliant and intriguing' - Colm Toibin'An accomplished and atmospheric debut' - Irish Examiner'Outstanding' - Irish Times'Perhaps the strongest Irish debut novel of the year' - RTE Book of the Week'An amazing novel' - Oliver Callan"e;The lad is a bit like a stray dog.
On the ninth floor of an upscale apartment complex, a young couple will come to terms with the loss of their son and the impending release of their daughter from a psychiatric clinic on her fourth birthday.
An official day off at an art museum takes a dangerous turn when Pursuant operative Marion Kenway and Zia Kose spot a reality-warping distortion radiating from a fourth-century Egyptian sarcophagus.
Lena Hart has spent six years climbing the corporate ladder at Halden & Cross Global, earning every promotion through grit, late nights, and flawless work.
On her very first night as a newly graduated nurse, Cathy Sullivan begins the overnight shift on Fourth Floor West, a quiet surgical ward where nothing seems quite out of place—until the hospital itself starts changing around her.
Following the brutal murder of his neighbors, former CIA/Army operative Marion Kenway trades his quiet retirement for a high-stakes life inside the Pursuant, an ancient, international organization dedicated to protecting humanity from subterranean Meta creatures, alien portals, and hidden realities.
Boswell, deceased, dictates to a typewriter in New Jersey the doings of the Associated Shades - Hamlet, Shakespeare, Cassius, Xanthippe, Baron Munchausen - as they run a club, a newspaper and a lawsuit in the afterlife.
The collection is a raw, emotionally charged journey through the complexities of forbidden love, heartbreak, betrayal, and the unshakable bonds that defy logic or time.
The stunning new short novel from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island 'An ageless study of loss, betrayal and survival' - The Guardian'With just a few economic brushstrokes he tells the kind of profound tale of family connection and dislocation that other writers would struggle to tell in 500 pages' - The iMiquel and his father are living an uneasy life together in his mother's house in the Pyrenees, the house she had been returning to on the day she died.
