After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

O'farrell, Maggie

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger."A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, ...

Picoult, Jodi

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now in a stunning tenth-anniversary edition, "the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written" (The Washington Post) tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn't offer easy answers.This deluxe edition includes a brand-new introduction from the author and cover art in addition to gorgeous sprayed edges and a stampe...

Kang, Han

From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, a...

Yuzuki, Asako

A Paperback Original From the author of the international bestseller Butter comes a chilling and perceptive novel about obsession, female friendship, and the slow unraveling of two lives Eriko's life looks perfect--from her prestigious job at a Japanese trading firm to her spotless apartment and devoted parents. Her newest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile Perch in...

Sohn, Won-Pyung

From the bestselling author of Almond, The Devil Wears Prada meets The Office in this witty, humane, and ultimately transformative story of a group of young workers who rebel against the status quo, now available in a convenient pocket-sized portable Nomad Edition. Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary. In her administrative job at the Academy, she silen...

Nishi, Kanako

Available in English at last, the international bestseller from one of Japan's most acclaimed authors, a touching tale of a broken family contending with the pain of the past to live in the present, helped by the unforgettable dog who becomes their lifeline. Sakura is the story of a family who is happy, until it isn't. Skipping back and forth in time, it begins when the narra...

Jean Rhys

Aperitifs in smoky Montparnasse cafes, cheap hotel rooms, and Marya Zelli, trying to make of her life something substantial to withstand the unreality which surrounds her. Alone, stranded in Paris after her Polish husband is jailed, Marya is befriended by an English couple who take her home with them. Slowly they overwhelm her with their passions as Marya drifts into an affair ...

Jean Rhys

"As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal."? Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your Duck Is My Duck The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves? and losses? o...

Jean Rhys

Un recorrido por la atormentada vida sentimental de la autora a través de las cuatro novelas que la dieron a conocer al público. Bien mirado, la vida de Jean Rhys fue un catálogo del desamor y ese dolor, esa espera angustiosa del amado y la desolación que sigue al abandono son el tema principal de las cuatro novelas cortas que componen este volumen. Las protagonistasde cada una...

Jean Rhys

«Una de las novelas más geniales del siglo XX.»The TimesAntoinette Cosway busca crear un mundo propio, a medias entre los modales distinguidos de su familia británica y las misteriosas vidas de los isleños jamaicanos. Un joven inglés se casa con ella, pero después del matrimonio empiezan a circular inquietantes rumores sobre el comportamiento de su esposa. A principios de 1940,...

Jean Rhys

Tras largos años de silencio y olvido después de haber publicado, en el período que va de 1927 a 1939, cinco libros escritos «con una sensibilidad demasiado adelantada a su época», Jean Rhys reapareció en 1966 en la escena literaria inglesa con "Ancho mar de los Sargazos", que muchos críticos consideran su obra maestra. Espléndido ejercicio de «literatura en la literatura» pero...

Jean Rhys