Helene Williams
The General of the Dead Army
Winner of the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005, Kadare’s debut novel (originally published in 1970) embodies the problem…
The Plain Sense of Things
Joern’s novel is really a series of interwoven short stories, each of which can stand on its own, but taken…
Luca Antara: Passages In Search of Australia
A New Zealander transplanted to Australia in the early 1980s, Martin Edmond divided his time between learning to get around…
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
In World War II Seattle, Henry Lee, the son of Chinese immigrants, faces a changing world. On one side are…
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet
Whatever became of Mary Bennet, the middle sister of the five young ladies memorialized in Pride and Prejudice? Not nearly…
The Lazarus Project
History and literary narrative are inextricably interwoven in MacArthur “Genius Grant”-winner Hemon’s latest work. Two stories are told: one…
Commonwealth of Thieves : The Improbable Birth of Australia
Novelist and historian Keneally (Schindler’s List) takes on the inauspicious early years of white settlers in his homeland in…
Dreamers of the Day
(1) Mary Doria Russell takes readers from post-World War I Ohio to Egypt and back again in this roman à…
A Perfect Waiter
Erneste is a perfect waiter: now, in 1966 at the Restaurant am Berg; in 1934, at the Grand Hotel…
Pickle to Pie
The premise of this “based on fact, veiled in fiction” novel is similar to Anne Landsman’s The Rowing Lesson:…
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