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Villa Triste
Triste. French for “sad.” And that’s the mood of this short novel from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano. Villa Triste…
Constellation
This book is one of those strange mixes of fiction and non-fiction. Bosc carefully unravels the tragic fate of Air…
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails
Sarah Bakewell’s latest non-fiction book, At the Existentialist Café, documents her passion for existentialism through linked biographies of the movements’…
The Honeymoon
In 1880, Marian Evans, better known as George Eliot, married John Walter Cross; she was sixty, and Johnnie, as he…
Tightrope
Editors' choice
April 1945, and Marian Sutro, a young woman with English-French parentage, has returned to her parents’ home in Oxford after…
The Exchange of Princesses
Chantal Thomas, the winner of the 2002 Prix Femina for Farewell, My Queen, has here written another novel rooted in…
The Exchange of Princesses
French historian Chantal Thomas returns to fiction in The Exchange of Princesses, a sensitive and tragic novel about two child…
Whisper Hollow
This story is set in 20th-century Verra, a small West Virginia coal mining community tucked across the creek from Whisper…
The Hormone Factory
Mordechai de Paauw—womanizer, cheat, and ruthless businessman—is a despicable man, yet the perfect narrator. The heir to a Dutch meatpacking…
The Goddess of Small Victories
On the death of her husband, the aged Adele Gödel recalls details of her life with the brilliant but disturbed…
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