Overcome by a fear that a lake that has miraculously appeared in Los Angeles is out to take her son from her, a single mother plunges into its depths and emerges as a powerful dominatrix and seer, while thousands of miles away, anothe...

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackThe End of Days, a brilliant novel of contingency and fate, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists ...

"Madame Bovary meets Fifty Shades of Grey."* Anna was a good wife, mostly. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fasc...

The debut of a "striking" new voice in fiction (Entertainment Weekly) Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day Am...

With this New York Times bestseller, the beloved Walk series ends as Alan Christoffersen reaches his destination and the beginning of a new life: "Definitely a journey worth taking" (Booklist).After the death of his beloved ...

A bold new novel that "augments a body of work worthy of a Nobel Prize" (Kirkus Reviews), from the internationally acclaimed author of Crossbones Nuruddin Farah—"the most important African novelist to emerge in the p...

This is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon ret...

'It's time to stop fighting, and go home'. Those were the words that finally persuaded Aruna to walk out of her East London flat in the middle of breakfast, wearing flimsy sandals on a brisk Spring day, carrying nothing more substanti...

Troubles is the riveting story of Major Brendan Archer, who travels to Ireland to meet his fiancee, Angela, in 1919. They have met only once before, a few years earlier in Brighton, and have conducted a long-distance relationship ever...

Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955, A FABLE is an allegorical novel about a French corporal--meant to be seen as a Christ figure--during World War I. In perhaps his most ambitious work, Faulkner aban...

Faulkner examines the changing relationship of black to white and of man to the land, and weaves a complex work that is rich in understanding of the human condition.

The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murd...

In Second World War Poland, a prisoner closes his eyes and pictures a sunlit cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, an old ...

Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, England, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern—his fortune in excess of 500 million pounds, and who should...

The classic tale behind MGM's blockbuster movie directed by George Sidney, starring Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, and Kathryn Grayson. Bringing to life the adventurous world of Mississippi show boats, the grittiness of turn-of-the-century...

[Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein] [Read by Hillary Huber] The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan novels!In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Lila m...

A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteries of modern life by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris, one of the most exciting voices of his generation Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves th...

Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few "events," though he knows his mind is sharp. His oldest son, who had Down Syndrome has died, and his remaining two children want to move him out of the homestead lake house an...

First published in 1934 but fully imagining the future of Germany over the ensuing years, The Oppermanns tells the compelling story of a remarkable German Jewish family confronted by Hitler's rise to power. Compared to works by Voltai...

One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow.Nicole, the hostess,...

In a surrealist romance, Damon, a madcap scientist, illegally holds Anna Graham prisoner in a cloud-filled house to discipline her into becoming a great actress, thus granting what he perceives to be her greatest desire in repayment f...

The Last Enchantments is a powerfully moving and lyrically written novel. A young American embarks on a year at Oxford and has an impassioned affair that will change his life foreverAfter graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion ...

"Deeply satisfying. Finn is a remarkably confident and supple storyteller. [The Gloaming] deserves major attention."—John Williams, New York Times"In this richly textured, intricately plotted novel, [Finn] assures us that heartbreak ...

A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine f...

A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly CloseHow do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and Ame...

In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, id...

"Tantalizing." — Washington Post"One of the standouts of the Nordic thriller boom." — New York Magazine "No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can." — Los Angeles Times "...

On the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr. Norman Wilfred, an eminent authority on the scientific organization of sc...

A hilarious—and delightfully profane—novel about the daily frustrations of family lifeBased on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profou...

From one of America's most dazzling talents ("Young writers as ambitious--and as good--as Nell Freudenberger give us reason for hope." --The New York Times Book Review) comes a cross-continental love story: a brilliantly obs...