Black Sunday marks the assured and exceptional arrival of a new literary voice; Tola Rotimi Abraham's debut is remarkable in its ambitious structure, in the characters she weaves together through this fraught dual history of family and modern urban Nigeria, as well as in the way she uses kaleidoscopic storytelling to slowly piece together her achingly realistic plot in a brilliant, refracted way For fans of We the Animals , The Twelve T ...
"Like a salvaged object that wants to return to the sea" ( The New Yorker ), this 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist is an intoxicating story of a teenage girl who trades her a middle-class upbringing for a quest for meaning in 1980s Mexico. One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomas, a boy she barely knows. He seems t ...
Paris, present day: a solar eclipse sweeps a seventy-five-year-old man back to the heart of Iran before the Revolution of 1979, immersing us in an unforgettable family saga with humor and history To Keep the Sun Alive brings a large extended family fully to life in this mesmerizing story that recalls Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland , Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears , and Rohinton Mistry's beloved body of work; it&apo ...
Charismatic Karl Geary is a talented writer to watch; translation rights for Montpelier Parade have already been sold for 15 languages, and in the U.K., it is Harvill Secker’s lead title for 2017 after a 5-house auction. Geary, an Irish-born American, is well-connected in the New York arts/music scene and visits frequently; he co-founded music venue Sin-e, where performers including Jeff Buckley, Ben Folds, David Gray, and Sinead O’Connor play ...
[b]Two bombs over Japan. Two shells. One called Little Boy, one called Fat Man. Three days apart. The one implicit in the other. Brothers.Named one of Flavorwire's best independent books of 2014, and winner of the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize.In this striking debut novel, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan are personified as Fat Man and Little Boy. This small measure of humanity is a cruelty the bombs must suffer. Given life from death, ...
[b]“Zaharieva packs several genres into one, including but not limited to pastoral idyll, sexual coming-of-age story, and feminist memoir. Ultimately, she presents life in all its messiness and possibility, vivid enough for the reader to almost taste.”—Publishers Weekly"This is powerful, controlled writing.”—Rain TaxiI turned up in the seaside town of Nesebar—an inconvenient four-year-old g ...
"Robert Perisic depicts, with acerbic wit, a class of urban elites who are trying to reconcile their nineties rebellion with the reality of present-day Croatia. . . . The characters' snide remarks could easily sound cynical but the novel has a levity informed by the sense of social fluidity that comes with democracy."—The New Yorker"Robert Perisic is a light bright with intelligence and twinkling with irony, flashing us the ne ...
