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The Center of the World
J. M. W. Turner, the famed 19th-century British artist, is a master of color with a fiercely independent and iconoclastic…
Where Tigers Are at Home
Each chapter of this novel begins with a selection from a biography of the 17th-century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, purportedly…
Kafka in Love
Kafka in Love presents a prose summary of hundreds if not thousands of letters and diary entries intently pored over…
Trapeze
Simon Mawer’s (The Glass Room) latest gift to his avid followers is the first of a projected two-volume novel about…
The Flowers of War
In 1937, the Japanese capture Nanking, China. An expatriate American priest, Father Engelmann, hopes his church will be respected as…
The Day Before Happiness
De Luca’s tale of an orphan boy in Naples after World War II is short but powerful. Our unnamed narrator…
The Secret in Their Eyes
Set in Argentina before and after the period known as the Dirty War, this is the story of Benjamin Chaparro,…
The Artificial Silk Girl
First published in 1932, Irmgard Keun’s The Artificial Silk Girl became a runaway bestseller in its native Germany. And yet,…
The Oriental Wife
Louise and Rolf were among the lucky Jews who left Nazi Germany before it was too late. And with Rolf’s…
The Absolutist
Editors' choice
John Boyne is a consummate storyteller, and in his new novel he doesn’t disappoint. You might think there was little…
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