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Alessandro Baricco
The Young Bride
In this scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family, Alessandro Baricco portrays a cast of mysterious characters who exist outside of the rules of causation as he tells a story, an adult fable, about fate and the difficult job of confronting the... -
Massimo Carlotto
For All the Gold in the World
In Northeast Italy, Marco Buratti, alias "the Aligator," is investigating a botched robbery that ended in a brutal murder. His client is just twelve years old, the son of a victim. Realizing that the truth is cloaked, twisted, and shocking, the Alligator finds himself mixed up in a maze of contraband... -
Emily Woof
The Lightning Tree
United Kingdom circa the 1980s——Ursula and Jerry find themselves surrounded by hip hairdos and dominating parents. When both escape to separate places, they keep in touch through letters that are deep, political, and full of irony——but Jerry harbors a secret uncertainty. -
Charlotte Wood
The Natural Way of Things
Yolanda and Verla face daily abuse on a remote outback compound full of captive women, each marked by their own past public scandal. In the bind of a senseless system that punishes women for being female, the two friends find the ability to forge a bond powerful enough to bring it all down. -
Robert Wilson
Stealing People
In the latest entry in Robert Wilson’s acclaimed Charlie Boxer series, a convincing web of international intrigue unravels in a world where heroism may breed vice and virtue is an accidental byproduct of crime. -
Jane Gardam
Bilgewater
Motherless and 16, Marigold is the headmaster's daughter at a private all-boys school, where she hurdles headlong out of her own head and into the seething cauldron of adolescence: impossible crushes, intimidating girls, and a fair share of awkwardness. -
Alina Bronsky
Baba Dunja's Last Love
Radiation level warnings be damned! Baba Dunja is going home, to her town right near Chernobyl. She and her motley crew of neighbors create an idyllic post-meltdown settlement——until a dangerous stranger shows up and annihilation once again looms. -
Tim Baker
Fever City
1960s Los Angeles: a detective searches for the kidnapped child of one of America's richest men, while a notorious hit man's story unfolds in the days before JFK's murder. Both are caught in an increasingly complex web, while a modern journalist discovers that the era's conspiracy theories just might... -
Amara Lakhous
The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea
In an Italy of the future, colorful characters are portrayed in limpid but lively prose. Bittersweet, like any self-respecting Italian comedy, The Hoax is a Pirandellian exploration of identity in today's multicultural, polyglot societies.
