Farrar
Jack: A Novel
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A very few novelists create worlds—palpable, mappable, 3-D, unique as a scent. Marilynne Robinson’s fictional Gilead, Iowa, is such a world, ...Read Review
The Sword and the Spear (Sands of the Emperor, 2)
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This tale of star-crossed lovers begins in Mozambique in 1895, in a boat on the Inharrime River with 15-year-old Imani Nsambe, her father, and ...Read Review
Traitor: A Novel of World War II
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In the summer of 1944, the Russian army occupies the Polish city of Lwow. There, the novel opens on seventeen-year-old Tolya, a half-Polish, half-Ukrainian ...Read Review
All He Knew
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The setting of this narrative is a small town and an institution in the United States during the period 1933–1945, the first twelve years ...Read Review
Jacob’s Ladder
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This multi-generational Russian saga covers the period from 1905 until 2011. In 1911, young Jacob Ossetsky meets and falls in love with Marusya Kerns, an aspiring ...Read Review
When the Plums Are Ripe
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In French colonial Cameroon, 1940, the poet and civil servant Pouka returns to his village. He finds his father, a kind of seer, having ...Read Review
The Organs of Sense
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In 1666, 19-year-old Gottfried Leibniz, not yet famous for inventing calculus, visits an unnamed astronomer who, alone in the scientific universe, has predicted a ...Read Review
Grievous: A Novel
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This intense, unwieldy, and moving narrative about lives of quiet and not-so-quiet desperation is the sequel to the critically celebrated Wilberforce, set, like ...Read Review
The Secret Wife of Louis XlV: Francoise d’Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon
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When Françoise d’Aubigné was born in a French prison cell to a disgraced criminal and the warden’s daughter, no ...Read Review
Been Here a Thousand Years
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Life has always been hard in the small southern-Italian farming village of Grottole. The inhabitants give their all to the land, but the ...Read Review