The Millstone

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...

Sunwoo Lim

With the Heart of a Ghost is a debut collection of eight fantastical stories translated by Chi-Young Kim (Whale) that explore feelings unseen, unconveyed, unexplainable. The funny, meditative characters who inhabit this book are pulled far from their ordinary daily routines to stare straight into their own sorrows, however they manifest. Ghosts and otherworldly occurrences are ...

Margaret Drabble

200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is the perfect envoy. Why does the Red Queen pick Babs to keep her story alive, and what else does she want from her? ...

Margaret Drabble

Sarah had come home from Paris to be a bridesmaid for her sister Louise. When a child, Sarah had adored her elder sister, but Louise had grown up to be an arrogant, selfish, cold and extravagant woman. She was also breath-takingly beautiful. The man she was to marry, Stephen Halifax, was a successful novelist, very rich and snobbishly unpleasant. From Sarah's first night at hom...

Margaret Drabble

Esposas sin maridos, madres y hermanas, mujeres que se debaten entre la vocación artística y las exigencias familiares. Amor no consumado, vanidad, y soledad. El poderoso universo ficcional de Margaret Drabble se concentra en estos trece relatos que abarcan cuatro décadas de producción literaria. Una madre trabajadora que puede con todo y acaba sus enloquecidos días con una se...

Margaret Drabble

Francesca Stubbs pasa de los setenta, pero aún goza de salud, y aunque hace tiempo que debería estar jubilada, trabaja gustosa para una institución benéfica que ofrece asistencia a ancianos que se enfrentan a penurias de todo tipo. Las personas que la rodean también se ven abocadas a luchar por salvaguardar la dignidad en el último tramo de su existencia, una existencia que más...

Margaret Drabble

rom the great British novelist Dame Margaret Drabble comes a vital and audacious tale about the many ways in which we confront aging and living in a time of geopolitical rupture.Francesca Stubbs has an extremely full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives "restlessly round England," which is "her last love . . . Sh...

Margaret Drabble

At a time when sex is de rigueur -- this is the 60s, after all, in newly energized London -- and illegitimacy taboo, Rosamund Stacey finds herself pregnant after her only sexual encounter. Despite her fierce independence and academic brilliance, Rosamund is naive and unworldly and the choices before her are terrifying. But in the perfection and helplessness of her baby she find...