The Door

Gigi L. Leung

On a weekend morning, college roommates, Ah Li and Panda, wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Li couldn't get out of bed, her heart heavy with the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Magda Szabo

From the author of The Door, selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2015An NYRB Classics OriginalLike Magda Szabó's internationally acclaimed novel The Door, Iza's Ballad is a striking story of the relationship between two women, in this case a mother and a daughter. Ettie, the mother, is old and from an older world than the rapidly modernizi...

Magda Szabo

Magda Szabó relata en "La puerta" su relación con Emerenc Szeredás, la fascinante heroína de esta novela. El encuentro de estas dos mujeres - la propia Magda Szabó, narradora de la historia, y Emerenc, quien fuera señora de la limpieza de la autora durante años - llega a convertirse en una relación filial.La fuerte personalidad de Emerenc cohibe en un primer momento a la escrit...

Magda Szabo

La anciana señora Szöcs vive en un pequeño pueblo húngaro. Acaba de perder a su marido, Vince y está sola. Iza, su hija y reputada doctora, se lleva a su madre a vivir con ella a su apartamento de Budapest. Comienza entonces una relación difícil, bien intencionada pero de resultado insatisfactorio. Iza ha tomado las riendas de la situación, y decidido el futuro de su madre, co...

Magda Szabo

Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó's books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go away on a mission and that he will be sending her to boarding s...

Elif Batuman

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017"An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down."—Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses You "Easily the funniest book I've read this year." —GQA portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just dis...