Men Without Women

Francis King

A witty, heartbreaking tale of unrequited love by "one of the finest and most remarkable English novelists of our time." (The Scotsman) Antonio Valli, a gifted Italian philosopher in his thirties, has left his wife and children behind in Florence for a one-year research fellowship at a provincial English university. Handsome and charming, Antonio is irresistible to men and wome...

Lee Onhwa

For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife. Twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa has inherited a neighborhood bakery from her grandmother. Curiously, her grandmother's wil...

Xiaolu Guo

"A propulsive powerhouse of a read."--Marie Claire (UK) "Ambitious, brave, and strange."--Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, a feminist reimagining of Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman and a diverse, swashbuckling crew I must work on a ship as a man . . . I must find freedom on...

Jewell, Lisa

Discover the debut novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell in which the residents of an apartment building confront one another's attractions, distrust, secrets, and lies. Perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton and Jojo Moyes.Welcome to 31 Almanac Road where the walls don't talk, but the people sure do. First, we have Ralph and Smith. Roommates and life-long b...

Lisa Genova

**National Bestseller** A "riveting page-turner" (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally "normal" life for a career in stand-up comedy.Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, n...

Rebecca Armitage

An irresistible modern fairy tale about a British princess who must decide between her duty to her family--or to her own heart It's New Year's Day in Tasmania and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely: she's in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best friends Finn and Jack, and she's about to finally...

Murakami, Haruki

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times."Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fi...

Murakami, Haruki

Todo lo que siempre has querido saber sobre Murakami y el jazz, contado por el propio autor.Haruki Murakami regentó durante años un club de jazz, llamado Peter Cat, antes de dedicarse a tiempo completo a la escritura: sin duda, al abrir este volumen el lector tendrá la sensación de haberse sentado a una de las mesas del local mientras el propio Murakami le cuenta anécdotas y po...

Murakami, Haruki

La novela con la que Murakami creó la nueva mitología de nuestro tiempo.Un joven publicista ha publicado, en una de sus campañas, una fotografía, aparentemente anodina, que lo ha puesto en la mira de un influyente grupo industrial. Y es que en la fotografía aparece un rebaño de ovejas y carneros en un prado, pero uno de esos carneros tiene un poder muy especial. La monótona y e...

Murakami, Haruki

Poco se imagina el joven protagonista de esta novela que la chica de la que se ha enamorado está a punto de desaparecer de su vida. Se han conocido durante un concurso entre estudiantes de diferentes institutos, y no pueden verse muy a menudo. En sus encuentros, sentados bajo la glicinia de un parque o paseando a orillas de un río, la joven empieza a hablarle de una extraña ciu...

Murakami, Haruki

En el primer volumen, dejamos al protagonista deseoso de saber qué se oculta detrás del cuadro titulado La muerte del comendador. También ha aprendido a convivir con los extraños personajes y objetos que lo envuelven desde que se instaló en la casa en las montañas. Y, a petición de su vecino, ha empezado a esbozar el retrato de una peculiar adolescente, Marie Akikawa. Pero cuan...

Murakami, Haruki

Haruki Murakami encarna el prototipo de escritor solitario y reservado; se considera extremadamente tímido y siempre ha subrayado que le incomoda hablar de sí mismo, de su vida privada y de su visión del mundo. Sin embargo, el autor ha roto ese silencio para compartir con sus lectores su experiencia como escritor y como lector. A partir de autores como Kafka, Chandler, Dostoiev...

Kang, Han

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • "[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation."—Entertainment Weekly One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century"Ferocious."—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)"Both ...

Kang, Han

From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice."Compulsively readable, universally relevant, and deeply resonant . . . in equal parts beautiful and urgent."—The New York Times Book Review Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award • One of the...

Murakami, Haruki

"Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?" —Haruki Murakami, from the afterword to The City and Its Uncertain Walls The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and wh...