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A Fortune Foretold
Mid-twentieth century Sweden. By the time Neta is in the 6th grade, she has been “the new girl” so many…
Among the Living
In 1947, Yitzhak Goldah, a 31-year-old Holocaust survivor, resettles in Savannah under government assistance with his Jewish relatives. There, he…
The Second Winter
Larsen’s gritty tale is as much about one Danish family’s struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Denmark as it…
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
The title precisely describes this book: an account of events leading up to the murder trial of Liberal Party leader…
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…
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