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The New Yorker: "The chill of suspicion and incomprehension..."
“The chill of suspicion and incomprehension came between me and humankind when I was sixteen,” Bilenchi’s spare, dark bildungsroman begins. Following an unnamed teen-ager’s initiation... -
The Seattle Times: "Old Filth"
This incomparable novel by English author Jane Gardam is the story of Sir Edward Feathers, a wealthy old Englishman who has endured loss after loss in his long and complicated life. By turns hilarious... -
Man in the Wooden Hat named one of the best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly
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Lia Levi, author of The Jewish Husband: tour dates
Winner of the Moravia Prize for fiction, The Jewish Husband is a bittersweet story of passion and hatred, cruelty and oppression. It is an account of a country and a time about which too little has been... -
NPR's "Fresh Air": The Inner Life Of An Imperfect Marriage
Listen to the entire story on NPR's Fresh Air She's the best contemporary British writer you probably haven't heard of; that's how I identify Jane Gardam to those readers, and... -
Boualem Sansal on Tour
The internationally acclaimed Algerian author presents his latest novel, The German Mujahid. In this groundbreaking story the author describes his country’s turbulent political issues in a daring... -
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt on Tour
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is one of Europe's best-selling and best loved authors. His most recent collection, "stories of redemption and reconciliation that carry a slight pleasant aftertaste, a lingering... -
Publishers Weekly Profile of Jane Gardam
Few novelists produce their best work in their 80s. Yet the English writer Jane Gardam, 82, has done just that with her new novel The Man in the Wooden Hat (Europa, November). It comes on the heels of... -
Thirty-five Weeks on the NYT Bestseller list. Hedgehog Back Among the Top Ten
The Elegance of the Hedgehog is at #9 on the New York Times Top Ten bestseller list this week. This month, Muriel Barbery's sumptuous novel celebrates twelve months in English in Alison Anderson's... -
Valeria Parrella on Tour
Author of For Grace Received (winner of the 2005 Renato Fusini Prize, the 2006 Zerilli-Marimò City of Rome Prize, and among the finalists for Italy’s most prestigious literary award, the...