Unaccustomed Earth

Lisa See

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See draws on the vibrancy and turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles to tell the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive, despite all odds.In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entranci...

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...

Neil Jordan

The first literary science fiction novel from Neil Jordan, visionary director of The Company of Wolves and Interview with the Vampire In a windswept corner of a forgotten peninsula, love and loss echo through the halls of a mansion built on secrets. Here memory is currency of the future, and the past refuses to stay buried. In the year 2084, Christian Cartwright, a quiet libr...

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...

Rachel Hochhauser

A breathtaking reimagining of Cinderella, as told through the eyes of its iconic "evil" stepmother, revealing a propulsive love story about the lengths a mother will go to for her children Twice-widowed, Lady Etheldreda Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley is solely responsible for her two children, a priggish stepdaughter, a razor-taloned peregrine falcon, and a crumbling manor. Fi...

Lahiri, Jhumpa

Un libro único en el que la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y del Pen Hemingway da voz a una misteriosa escritora cuyos poemas cuentan una vida sospechosamente parecida a la suya. En el fondo del cajón de un escritorio de su casa de Roma, la autora halla algunos objetos olvidados por sus anteriores dueños: sellos, un diccionario griego-italiano, botones, postales que nunca se envi...

Lahiri, Jhumpa

Vuelve la mejor Jhumpa Lahiri, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y aclamada por sus «historias simples y sutiles, sembradas con sentimientos inesperados, como un campo de minas» (Pedro Almodóvar) Una familia disfruta de sus vacaciones en una casa de campo romana mientras la hija de los guardeses —una pareja que arrastra una antigua afrenta— se encarga de las tareas domésticas y la o...

Lahiri, Jhumpa

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER. With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone, this stunning debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion whe...

Lahiri, Jhumpa

Designado Mejor Libro del Año 2008 por el periódico The New York Times, Tierra desacostumbrada fue objeto de un torrente de admiración por parte de la crítica estadounidense y logró colocarse en el primer lugar de las listas de ventas. Quizá el secreto esté en que los relatos de Lahiri ?que suelen girar en torno a las vivencias de las familias de ascendencia bengalí en Estados ...