Sam Taylor (trans.)
Perspectives (UK) / Perspective(s) (US)
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Florence, 1557: the murdered body of the Mannerist painter Jacopo Pontormo is found in the chancel of the Medici church of San Lorenzo, below ...Read Review
Perspective(s) (US) / Perspectives (UK)
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An unusual epistolary novel, Perspective(s) is a murder mystery and historical romp set in late 16th-century Florence. In the preface, a 19th-century ...Read Review
Beyond the Door of No Return
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There are many doors of no return. Death is one, even for Orpheus, the tragic Greek hero who failed to bring his lover ...Read Review
The Canvas of the World
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This third novel in Varenne’s trilogy takes on the Exposition Universelle of Paris in all its glory. Aileen Bowman, a determined and ...Read Review
The Country of Others
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When Mathilde follows her Moroccan husband Amine from Alsace to his homeland, she is in for a huge culture shock. The soldier she ...Read Review
After the War
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Violence is rampant in this dark thriller set in the Southwest of France during the height of the Algerian War. Whereas the Germans ...Read Review
Equator
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Nebraska, 1871. Pete Ferguson is a murderer, army deserter, and is wanted for theft and arson. Changing his name to Billy Webb, he joins ...Read Review
A Meal in Winter: A Novel of World War II
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One brutal Polish winter in an unspecified year during World War II, three German soldiers go hunting one of “them,” meaning a Jew. ...Read Review
Four Soldiers
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In 1919, the Russian civil war grinds to a temporary halt as the opposing factions hunker down in the face of a more powerful ...Read Review
Charlotte
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This novel, originally published in France in 2014 to great critical acclaim, tells the life story of the artist, Charlotte Salomon, born in Vienna ...Read Review
