Helga Ruebsamen's extraordinary achievement in this, her first novel to be translated into English, is in finding a voice for a sensitive and highly imaginative child who must endure the painful transition from life in the paradise of the Dutch East Indies to the savage realities of wartime Holland.
In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment.
The comforts and terrors of middle-class provincial life have seldom been more sharply dissected than by Stanley Middleton, and his new novel adds to this social insight a new poignancy.
A captivating debut novel about a woman who falls into an overwhelming mutual obsession with the Upper East Side mother who hires her as a nannyElla is flat broke: wasting away on bodega coffee, barely making rent, seducing the occasional strange man who might buy her dinner.
A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts.
Ein dramatisches Geheimnis, das Schicksale und Epochen verbindetEin vergessenes Hotel in den Schweizer Bergen, das noch den Glanz vergangener Zeiten bewahrt – überraschend erfährt Maike, dass sie wohl die Erbin ist.
This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published at the turn of the 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction.
An engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oatess earlier novels explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two womenOriginally published in 1985,Solsticeis the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complete opposites yet find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other.
"Clare Sestanovichs Stories zwangen mich zu Boden wie die Schwerkraft, und immer wieder waren da diese scharfen, überraschenden, eigentümlichen Momente von Anmut.
At a loose end after college, Ellis Barstow drifts back to his hometown and takes a job as a reconstructionist investigating and recreating the details of fatal car accidents.
Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album Reprint, The Tale of One Bad Rat is the story of a young girl, Helen Potter, who runs away from home to escape an uncaring mother and a sexually abusive father.
Lose yourself in this captivating and heart-wrenching saga from much loved author Jess Foley, written in the bestselling tradition of Josephine Cox, Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court.
The spine-tingling, bone-chillingnovel of supernatural suspense from the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThe FiremanandHornsnow an AMC original series starring Zachary Quinto, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ashleigh Cummings.
Following the international success of Die, My Love (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018), Ariana Harwicz again takes us into the darkest recesses of the imagination with this delirious, furious account of a mother and daughter bound by chaos as much as love.
** SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REN E ZELLWEGER, LOUIE ANDERSON AND OWEN TEAGUE **Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade.
UN BESTSELLER INSTÁNTANEO SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES
«Russell es ferozmente original […] Mi sombría Vanessa es una novela extremadamente compleja, audaz y un ingenioso estudio sobre los efectos del poder».
From Paul Tremblay, the author ofA Head Full of Ghosts, comes a contemporary psychological suspense concerning a family shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy.
The exquisitely artful fiction debut of Vanity Fair columnist Elissa Schappell is a novel told in ten stories that resonate with the most profound experiences in the life of a young woman -- friendship and rivalry, the love for a man, the birth of a child, and the death of a father.
Still recovering from the heartbreak of infertility, memoirist Gail McCormick and her husband volunteer to host two Children of Chernobyl for a summer reprieve from radiation exposure.
