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Boualem Sansal
2084: The End of the World
A tribute to George Orwell's 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Sansal's 2084 tells the story of a near future in which religious extremists have established an oppressive caliphate where autonomus thought is forbidden. -
Elena Ferrante
The Beach at Night
The Beach at Night is a short, moving, and mysterious tale for future and present readers of Ferrante’s beloved novels. -
Alexander Maksik
Shelter in Place
Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America’s most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligations of family, and... -
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. -
Charlotte Wood
The Natural Way of Things
The Natural Way of Things is at once lucid and illusory, a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind's own vast contradictions—the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body. This gripping, provocative, and timely... -
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... -
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. -
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. -
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... -
Joan London
The Golden Age
Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold contracts polio and finds himself at The Golden Age, a sprawling children's hospital. But it's there that he falls in love: with poetry, and with Elsa. With tenderness and humor, The Golden Age tells a deeply moving story about illness and recovery, and about embracing...