Literary
Bones of the Barbary Coast
The skeleton of a victim of the 1906 earthquake is uncovered during a San Francisco historic home remodel and…
The Entre Rios Trilogy
The Jewish experience in Europe and the United States has been a popular subject in both fiction and nonfiction.…
Arthur and George
I should perhaps point out that as Julian Barnes is one of my favourite contemporary prose writers, I approached his…
Massacre River
The 1937 program of ethnic cleansing of Haitians ordered by the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo gets little mention in the…
Garner
In Garner, New Hampshire, in 1925, postman Willard Heald discovers the body of Frances Giddens in a stream. Frances is…
Götz and Meyer
Editors' choice
It is rare that a slim book can wield such emotional impact, but Götz and Meyer is small in page-length…
Suite Française
Editors' choice
Suite Française, an unfinished five-part epic that boldly illustrates the effect of the WWII German occupation on the ordinary people…
Cloth Girl
Editors' choice
In the mid-1930s, naïve bride Audrey Turton travels to Ghana to join her colonial officer husband. At the same time,…
Shadows on the Rock
This gratifying novel sprang from Willa Cather’s enraptured discovery of Québec City in 1928 during an unexpected stopover with her…
The House of Scorta
Editors' choice
Awarded France’s most prestigious literary prize, Le Prix Goncourt 2004, this novel has sold over 400,000 copies. After reading it,…
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