-Titulo Original : The Committed-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Review An Amazon Best Book of March 2021: In The Committed, we follow the same nameless narrator to Paris where he is “no longer a spy or a sleeper”-as he was in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer-but “most definitely a spook.” Still a refugee, our fearless narrator now must survive the dark and deadly world of drug dealing, which he approaches with entertaining bravado and foolishness. Readers new to the series, and those returning, will marvel at Nguyen’s dexterity at conveying a man of two minds and the rhythmic beat of this wry, intense, and comedic novel. -Al Woodworth, Amazon Book Review The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of “the man of two minds” as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalismThe long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail.Both highly suspenseful and existential, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters. Review Praise for The Committed: New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Time, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Slate, BuzzFeed, Crime Reads, Entropy, and Kirkus ReviewsAn Amazon Best Book of the MonthA New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection“Equal parts Ellison’s Invisible Man and Chang-rae Lee’s Henry Park, Nguyen’s nameless narrator is a singular literary creation, a complete original. Fortunately for us, this tormented double agent is back for another serving of ghostcolonial discontent in Nguyen’s showstopper sequel, The Committed . . . The novel draws its true enchantment-and its immense power-from the propulsive, wide-ranging intelligence of our narrator as he Virgils us through his latest descent into hell. That he happens to be as funny as he is smart is the best plus of all . . . By the end of The Committed, its cover as a spy novel is blown and its true genre is revealed: It’s a ghost story, if it’s any kind at all. The novel’s tension derives not from whether Vo Danh will survive the drug war or his past offenses, but whether this spectral man will, in the fullest meaning of the word, live . . . If this incandescent novel teaches us anything, it is that forgiveness is a joy of the living, not the burden of the dead.”-Junot Diaz, New York Times Book Review (cover review) “The action of the new novel, set in 1981, is chronologically contiguous with that of The Sympathizer, but ‘sequel’ isn’t quite the right word for it; it’s more like a reloading . . . The absence of conventional craft, as much as the shared content, makes the two books into a single project. It’s the voice of the novels that matters, that ramifies, th...

-Titulo Original : Ocean State-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do. In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O’Nan’s expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women, but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers. Review Praise for Ocean State: “Interesting and enduring…O’Nan is an enticing writer, a master of the illuminatingly mundane moments…In Ocean State, O’Nan is subverting the thriller, borrowing its momentum to propel this bracing, chilling novel. Whereas thrillers tend to use murders as a prurient jumping-off point, the entryway to the reader’s pleasure - that chance to play Columbo or Kinsey Millhone in our heads - O’Nan takes his time, humanizing this story to make the hole where the victim was suitably substantial. Highly specific to the landmarks of the real Ashaway, but ringing with the universal, Ocean State is a map for the emotional dead ends of America, where kids kill other kids over seemingly nothing. O’Nan understands that at least in the moment, it is for everything.”-New York Times “O’Nan’s great gift is that we want to know more about every person he writes, no matter how unremarkable they seem from the outside . . . Through prolonged exposure to the girls’ thoughts, O’Nan builds the novel’s tension until it feels like the air right before a monsoon; these teens, like all of us, are ruled by their passions, and passions can and do transcend human law . . . The entire telling becomes an act of empathy. It’s an invention, but one that drives home irrevocably and elegantly what you’d been feeling as you read but did not fully acknowledge: that there are as many different kinds of pain as there are people.”-Boston Globe “Even as he inverts the form, veteran novelist Stewart O’Nan effectively keeps you turning the pages quickly with this tragic story of teenage love…it should be mentioned that the sections of the story narrated by the murder victim, Birdy, gather an almost excruciating tension as she approaches her inevitable fate. O’Nan makes her much more than a simple plot device, and its what elevates the story to more than just a page-turner.”-Minneapolis Star Tribune“Ocean State is a haunting immersion into the desperate and immediate world of adolescence gone wrong, where emotional certainty dictates that actions be taken before rational minds can pull back. The result is a gripping march to the inevitable, presented through the close perspective of four women whose lives will soon be forever changed… In addition to granting us close proximity to each character’s movements, O’Nan deftly provides a larger collage of the enormity that unfolds, leaving us with reflection of the tenuousness of life, the wish that this tragedy could have been avoided, and the privilege of having been witness to its progression.”-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“The events are horrifying, and not only in terms of that final violence, the wr...

-Titulo Original : Transient Desires A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (the Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, 30)-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author Donna Leon is the author of the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Donna Leon lived in Venice for many years and now divides her time between Venice and Switzerland. In the landmark thirtieth installment of the bestselling series the New Yorker has called “an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event,” Guido Brunetti is forced to confront an unimaginable crimeIn his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon’s masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians. However, Brunetti’s curiosity is aroused by the behavior of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they want to avoid association with it?As Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, investigate the incident, they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumored to be involved in more sinister nighttime activities in the Laguna. To get to the bottom of what proves to be a gut-wrenching case, Brunetti needs to enlist the help of both the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Costiera. Determining how much trust he and Griffoni can put in these unfamiliar colleagues adds to the difficulty of solving a peculiarly horrible crime whose perpetrators are technologically brilliant and ruthlessly organized.Donna Leon’s Transient Desires is as powerful as any novel she has written, testing Brunetti to his limits and forcing him to listen very carefully for the truth. Review Praise for Transient Desires:New York Times BestsellerNamed a Most Anticipated Book by Crime Reads“Over the course of 30 novels featuring her compassionate police detective, Commissario Guido Brunetti, the American-born author has seized on fundamental Venetian plagues like government corruption, illegal immigration and badly behaved tourists. Which is not to overlook such scourges as bureaucratic inertia, rampant nepotism and rising seas. In Transient Desires, Brunetti raises a judgmental eyebrow at the follies of youth . . . Leon has a lot to say in this book about prejudices, many of which declare themselves through accents . . . Needless to say, by venturing outside the comfort zone of his own prejudices, this deeply simpatico detective learns a lot about his city, his countrymen and himself. And so do we.” Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review“The 30th entry in Donna Leon’s procedural series set in Venice, Italy, and starring police commissario Guido Brunetti. This latest outing finds Brunetti investigating an incident in which two injured women, victims of an apparent boat accident, were left unconscious at a hospital entrance . . . Brunetti enlists the assistance of two colleagues he’s never met: an initially wary coast-guard captain and a senior Carabinieri officer. Their ad hoc team pools resources to connect Borgato to crimes both fatal and soul-destroying.” Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal“Brunetti is adept at navigating, literally, the canals of Venice and, figuratively, the treacherous waters of government bureaucracy and office intrigue. He’s also thoroughly devoted to his wife and kids, who are quick to offer smart, somewhat cheeky advice (and excellent meals). And he remains in love with Venice despite the ruinous changes wrought by centuries of visitors to his native city.” Adam Woog, Seattle Times“In the course of things, Leon as usual allows us time to absorb plenty of touristy news about little known ...

-Titulo Original : Black Cloud Rising-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author David Wright Falade is a professor of English at the University of Illinois and the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He is the co-author of the young adult novel Away Running and author of the nonfiction book Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, which was a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis-Dispatch Best Book of 2001. The recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, he has written for the New Yorker, the Village Voice, the Southern Review, Newsday, and more. Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedomBy fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild-a one-armed, impassioned Abolitionist-set out from Portsmouth to hunt down the rebel guerillas and extinguish the threat. From this little-known historical episode comes Black Cloud Rising, a dramatic, moving account of these soldiers-men who only weeks earlier had been enslaved, but were now Union infantrymen setting out to fight their former owners. At the heart of the narrative is Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her master, raised with some privileges but constantly reminded of his place. Deeply conflicted about his past, Richard is eager to show himself to be a credit to his race. As the African Brigade conducts raids through the areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers, he and his comrades recognize that they are fighting for more than territory. Wild’s mission is to prove that his troops can be trusted as soldiers in combat. And because many of the men have fled from the very plantations in their path, each raid is also an opportunity to free loved ones left behind. For Richard, this means the possibility of reuniting with Fanny, the woman he hopes to marry one day. With powerful depictions of the bonds formed between fighting men and heartrending scenes of sacrifice and courage, Black Cloud Rising offers a compelling and nuanced portrait of enslaved men and women crossing the threshold to freedom. Review Praise for Black Cloud Rising: “Falade’s book is so accessible and rousing, though, that you hope it becomes available as a mass-market paperback, in packaging that more clearly announces: This book is a straight-up page-turner. There are no braided points of view here, no too-pretty words, no splintered syntax. No leaden diagnoses of the human predicament belch on the smoky skyline. The nature of the American experiment is implicitly questioned but not burned to the ground...This is a classic war story told simply and well, its meanings not forced but allowed to bubble up.”-Dwight Garner, New York Times “The story of the African Brigade, a unit of Black freedmen who fought for the Union during the Civil War, gets its due in this superior adult debut from Falade . . .[Richard] Etheridge is made a fascinating figure, well suited to serve as the focal point for Falade’s exploration of the complexities of Etheridge and his comrades’s rapid shift from powerlessness to armed military duty. Engrossing and complex, this will have readers riveted.”-Publishers Weekly, starred review“Tensely wrought…A masterful depiction of the precarious nature of Black life during the war and of slavery’s unrelenting assault on human dignity.”-Booklist (starred review)“In this profoundly reflective novel, Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Awar...

-Titulo Original : Last Chance Texaco Chronicles Of An American Troubadour-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author Rickie Lee Jones has released seventeen record albums and received two Grammy Awards. She lives in New Orleans. “Book of the Year.” - MOJO MagazineOutstanding Book of the Year.” -The Herald (Glasgow)A Best Book of the Year by NPR, Pitchfork, The Telegraph, and UncutA tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning “premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation” (Hilton Als), Rickie Lee Jones This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song. Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones in her own words. It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music. With candor and lyricism, the “Duchess of Coolsville” (Time) takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, to her years as a teenage runaway, through her legendary love affair with Tom Waits and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee’s stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs - Chuck-Es in Love, “Weasel and the White Boys Cool,” “Danny’s All-Star Joint,” and “Easy Money”- but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, a pimp with a heart of gold and tales of her fabled ancestors. In this tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music are never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, a singer-songwriter whose music defied categorization and inspired American pop culture for decades. Review Praise for Last Chance Texaco A jaw-dropping youth, and an addictive, funny, eccentric and perceptive memoir. -Nick Hornby “In this raw and roving life story, Jones depicts a child who recognized her humanity and worth even when others wouldn’t, and a woman whose confidence helped her rise above heroin addiction, music-industry sexism and the traumas of her youth . . . In a book about the past, Jones has no problem moving on. It’s a neat trick.” -Jake Cline, Washington Post“Winding and leisurely, as rich and colorful as Jones’s best lyrics. It’s a classically American picaresque tale… Jones paints a striking, distinctive self-portrait.”- New York Times“Vividly cinematic… Sexy and moving and sad.” -Bookforum“She reads as a modern Huck Finn…A testament to the joys and the chaos of a life of travelling.” - New Yorker“It’s the absolute best book about being an artist in the rock world that I’ve ever read.” - Bob Lefsetz, The Lefsetz Letter“[Rickie Lee Jones] opened every door, and she never flinched…she’s a storyteller.” - San Francisco Chronicle “Candid, cosmic, so cool… An impassioned and cinematic trip through Jones’s eventful life. Jones manages to carry her originality, intimacy, and volcanic expressiveness into book form.” -Boston Globe “Terrific… The prose is rich and rhythmic, filled with lines that are pithy (Rickie Lee is a Frank Capra movie that had been overtaken by Stanley Kubrick) and poetic (childhood traumas leave their dirty footprints on the fresh white snow of our happy-ever-afters.) . . . Jones is as fearless in prose as she is on stage. -Minneapolis Star-Tribune “So remarkably beautifully written, showing [Rickie Lee’s] signature as a songwriter, too.” -Scott Simon, NPR “One of the most compelling memoirs I’ve ever read… What really sucks you in, and lifts you up, is the dazzling magic of her prose.” -Please Kill Me “Well-crafted and intensely candid.” -San Diego Union-Tribune ...

-Titulo Original : Milk Blood Heat-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: A gorgeous debut (Lauren Groff) from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in todays literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all.A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in todays literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another.A thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter-whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family’s church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their father’s ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them.Wise and subversive, spiritual and seductive, Milk Blood Heat forms an ouroboros of stories that bewitch with their truth, announcing the arrival of a bright new literary star. Review Praise for Milk Blood Heat:Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein and PEN/Robert W. Bingham AwardsNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Atlantic, TIME, Washington Independent Review of Books, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, Library Journal, Literary Hub, Audible, Largehearted Boy, Entropy, Millions, and Tampa Bay TimesA Belletrist Book Club February PickA Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club April PickAn Indie Next PickAn Amazon Best Book of the Month One of TIME Magazine’s “Here Are the 14 New Books You Should Read in February” One of Elle’s “57 Most Anticipated Books Of 2021”One of Entertainment Weekly’s “Best Books of February 2021” One of Buzzfeed’s “75 Books to Add to your TBR List”One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “55 of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021” and “20 of the Best Books of February 2021 to Fall in Love With”One of Alma’s “Favorite Books for Winter 2021”One of Essences 21 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2021One of The Millions Most Anticipated of 2021 and February One of Electric Literature’s “43 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2021” selected by RO KwonOne of Electric Literature’s “27 Debuts to Look Forward To in the First Half of 2021” selected by Adam VitcavageOne of Paperback Paris’ “100 Most-Anticipated New Books of 2021” and “Debut Books We’re Excited To Read This Month”One of Book Riot’s “Horoscopes and Book Recommendations”One of The Rumpus’ “What To Read When 2021 Is Just Around The Corner”One of Write or Die Tribes 21 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2021 “Electric…a tapestry of intimate moments punctuated by Moniz’s tight, uncompromising prose.”-TIME Magazine “Like snow in the Sunshine State-“There was a sense of betrayal in it. Like how dare Florida, of all places, try and turn a season”-the short stories in Moniz’s first collection constantly surprise. In unvarnished, visceral prose, Moniz uses the “swampy stench” of Florida as a backdrop to explore the internal and external perfidies of womanhood.”-O, The Oprah Magazine“20 of the Best Books of February 2021 to Fall in Love With” “Mortality is the undercurrent in Dantiel W. Moniz’s electrifying debut story collection, Milk Blood Heat, but where there’s death there is the whir of li...

-Titulo Original : The Delusions Of Crowds Why People Go Mad In Groups-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author William J. Bernstein is a neurologist, financial theorist, and historian whose books include A Splendid Exchange, Masters of the Word, The Birth of Plenty, and The Four Pillars of Investing. He is the co-founder of the investment management firm Efficient Frontier Advisors, and has written for publications including the Wall Street Journal and Money magazine. He was the winner of the 2017 James R. Vertin Award from CFA Institute. He lives in Oregon. From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries“We are the apes who tell stories,” writes William Bernstein. “And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts.” As Bernstein shows in his eloquent and persuasive new book, The Delusions of Crowds, throughout human history compelling stories have catalyzed the spread of contagious narratives through susceptible groups with enormous, often disastrous, consequences.Inspired by Charles Mackay’s 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last 500 years from the Anabaptist Madness that afflicted the Low Countries in the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that animate ISIS and pervade today’s polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles of recent years. Through Bernstein’s supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their motivation, invariably “the desire to improve one’s well-being in this life or the next.”As revealing about human nature as they are historically significant, Bernstein’s chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania: for example, belief in dispensationalist End-Times has over decades profoundly affected U.S. Middle East policy. Bernstein observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of mass delusion, we can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its frequently dire impact. Review Praise for The Delusions of Crowds: Named a Most Anticipated Book by Literary Hub “Bernstein, a trained neurologist and the author of several investment books, is particularly well suited to the task of updating Mackay, and his Delusions of Crowds is a worthy supplement to the original.” -Edward Chancellor, New York Review of Books “Bernstein wants us to understand that human beings are not remotely as smart or as rational as we would like them to be. Only rarely are people truly analytical about anything. We make things up constantly, then claim that our inventions are true . . . But we don’t need a poll to confirm Mackay’s and Bernstein’s conclusion that people tend to believe what they want to believe, whether or not hard facts and cold reason support their views. We know, for example, that on Nov. 3, more than 74 million Americans voted to reelect a man whom a slew of serious historians have already identified as the worst president in American history . . . Explains Bernstein: ‘When compelling narrative [Make America Great Again, for example] and objective fact collide, the former often survives, an outcome that has cursed mankind since time immemorial.’” -Robert G. Kaiser, Washington Post“Authoritative . . . Bernstein’s command of detail is capacious; his ability to weave the facts into a limpid narrative is equally sure handed . . . Bernstein’s lucid and entertaining history is a warning that the primitive mind lurks under the sheen of alleged rationality, and that a departure into the comforting certainties of groupthink is closer than we may realize.”-Los Angeles R...

-Titulo Original : Maxwells Demon-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author Steven Hall is the author of The Raw Shark Texts, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was an international bestseller and has been translated into over thirty languages. In 2013, Hall was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Maxwell’s Demon is his long-anticipated second novel.@stevenha11steven-hall Fourteen years after the monumental publication of the international bestseller The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwell’s Demon heralds the triumphant return of Granta Best Young British Novelist Steven Hall.Thomas Quinn is having a hard time. A failed novelist, he’s stuck writing short stories and audio scripts for other people’s characters. His wife, Imogen, is working on a remote island halfway around the world, and talking to her over the webcam isn’t the same. The bills are piling up, the dirty dishes are stacking in the sink, and the whole world seems to be hurtling towards entropic collapse. Then he gets a voicemail from his father, who has been dead for seven years.Thomas’s relationship with Stanley Quinn-a world-famous writer and erstwhile absent father-was always shaky, not least because Stanley always seemed to prefer his enigmatic assistant and protege Andrew Black to his own son. Yet after Black published his first book, Cupid’s Engine, which went on to sell over a million copies, he disappeared completely. Now strange things are happening to Thomas, and he can’t help but wonder if Black is tugging at the seams of his world behind the scenes.Absurdly brilliant, wildly entertaining, and utterly mind-bending, Maxwell’s Demon triumphantly excavates the ways we construct meaning in a world where chaotic collapse looms closer every day. Review Praise for Maxwell’s Demon:Named a Most Anticipated Book by the Guardian“A wonderfully imaginative, splendidly baroque novel that is a combination of the baffling, teasing, and tantalizing. Part fantasy, part mystery, it is altogether delightful and filled with surprises-in a word, exceptional. No, make that two words; the second is fantastic. A rare, sui generis treat.” -Booklist (starred review)“[A] phantasmagoric novel with shades of Stephen King’s The Dark Half . . . There’s really nothing like this book-long contemplations of philosophy, personality, religion, and history are all woven into something of a mystery in which no one is truly reliable. With influences that recall Fight Club and Motherless Brooklyn, Hall manages to put a whole world on the page that shifts and changes as weirdly and wildly as the ones in the novel’s fictional books. The modern novel’s version of a Mobius strip, written with verve and a vast appreciation for the power of language.” -Kirkus Reviews“Ingeniously plotted and compulsively well-paced, a blend of detective story and science fiction with an epistemology course thrown in.” -Sunday Times“A postmodern mystery . . . Ingenious fun . . . Showily postmodern, full of odd typographical elements, altered realities and intertextual jokes . . . Maxwell’s Demon is consistently fun and often impressive.” -Guardian, “Book of the Day”“An entropic and sprawling mystery . . . Mind-twisting . . . Introspective and philosophical, the novel explores the dangers that occur when fatalistic urges take over.” -New Statesman“Written in the first person and paced like a thriller, there’s an intimacy and immediacy that quickly grips, and even the long digressions on theory-a trademark of the form-are enjoyable to read.” -Spectator“It’s Raymond Chandler meets Dan Brown meets Albert Einstein. Meets Christopher Nolan. Meets Jorge Luis Borges. It’s a mind-expanding page-turning adventure-mystery that crackles with intelligence and intrigue; a book about books (sort of) that’s been beautifully rendered in book form.” -Foyles“A postmodern literary thriller about a difficult second novel . . . Anyone who has a taste for postmodern hijinks-fans of T...

-Titulo Original : The Good Girls An Ordinary Killing-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, The Good Girls is a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation.On a summer night in 2014, Padma and Lalli went missing from Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh. Hours later they were found hanging in the orchard behind their home. Who they were, and what had happened to them, was already less important than what their disappearance meant to the people left behind.Slipping deftly behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honor in a village in northern India, The Good Girls returns to the scene of their short lives and shameful deaths, and dares to ask: What is the human cost of shame? Review Praise for The Good GirlsNew York Times Editors’ ChoiceFinancial Times Best Book of the WeekMarie Claire Best True Crime Book of 2021ANew York Times Book ReviewPaperback Row Selection“The Good Girls is transfixing; it has the pacing and mood of a whodunit, but no clear reveal; Faleiro does not indict the cruelty or malice of any individual, nor any particular system. She indicts something even more common, and in its own way far more pernicious: a culture of indifference that allowed for the neglect of the girls in life and in death.”-Parul Sehgal, New York Times“A riveting-sometimes astonishing-work of forensic journalism that chronicles the girls’ lives as well as the circumstances of their death. -Wall Street Journal“Powerful . . . Her social analysis is enlightening . . . most poignant when it’s focused on the girls’ unfinished lives.” -Minneapolis Star Tribune“The story [Faleiro] weaves in exquisite language is as tragic and ugly as it is engrossing . . . A riveting, terrible tale, one all too common, but Faleiro’s gorgeous prose makes it bearable.” -New York Times Book Review“A haunting piece of narrative reporting . . . Essential reading.”-Sunday Times (UK)“A beautifully calibrated book, full of suspense to the final pages, urging us to walk into that night and listen.” -Guardian (UK)[A] gripping, real-life murder mystery... Taut with dramatic tension, The Good Girls vividly captures the sights, sounds, smells, preoccupations and oppressiveness of the village... [and] effectively captures the circus-like atmosphere that typically follows heinous crimes in India... Faleiro writes sensitively about her subjects’ actions and motivations. -Financial Times[A] compulsively readable, highly impressive work of reportage... The Good Girls is excellent, deeply felt nonfiction. -Shelf Awareness“A modern-day Rashomon that offers multiple views of the widely publicized deaths of two young women in rural India…A gripping story.” -Kirkus Reviews“Powerful account… In incisive prose, Faleiro…examines India’s family honor system and the grueling lives of lower caste women. True crime buffs will be fascinated.” -Publishers Weekly“In this true story of the mysterious death of two girls, Sonia Faleiro confronts us with what it means to be young, poor, powerless and most importantly, female, in much of todays India. Despite its calm, measured tone, or more likely, because of it, The Good Girls left me shattered.”-Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize winner“The Good Girls is an insightful work of reportage that highlights how gender intersects with class and caste in Indian society. It’s a page-turner, a feminist text, and an essential read that is deeply empathetic toward its two main subjects who no longer have a voice.”-Deepa AnapparaAn extraordinary book studded with insights into media, justice, corruption, and the rules governing womens lives. Padma and Lalli-harvesting mint, enchanted by a play, seeking freedom, wishing to be something-will stay powerfully with me. -Megha MajumdarA compulsively readable whodunit, as fast-moving as a mystery novel, and at a whole deeper level offers profound observations about caste and sexuality in rural Indi...

-Titulo Original : Dalva-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Now available in a Grove edition for the first time, Dalva is one of the finest novels by New York Times bestselling, much beloved author Jim Harrison: a beautifully crafted story of one woman’s journey to find her son.From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam-and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.One of Harrison’s most ambitious novels, Dalva explores an extraordinary family through the strong, engaging voice of an unforgettable woman, confirming Harrison as one of America’s most memorable writers. Review Praise for Dalva“Monumental . . . A work of humor and a unified lament . . . Voices that cut through time and cross the barriers of culture and gender to achieve a work in chorus. . . . There is no putting aside Dalva until the time bombs go off, the identities are revealed, and the skeletons almost literally tumble from the closets. . . . Dalva is suspended in its own beauty. . . . A book to read with trust and exuberance.” -Louise Erdrich, Chicago Tribune“Harrison’s storytelling instincts are nearly flawless . . . The people in Dalva reemerge as full-blooded individuals who almost incidentally embody much of the innocence, carelessness, and urgency that played so large a part in the settling of this country. Best of all, perhaps, are Mr. Harrison’s descriptions of the land-the untamed deserts, plains, forests, and arroyos of what was once the Western frontier . . . tough but rhapsodic language.” -New York Times Book Review“Moving, interesting, satisfying . . . Dalva is Harrison’s most ambitious novel to date. . . . What arouses our curiosity and sympathy is [Dalva’s] quiet exploration-her meditations upon her family, her loves, her losses and her gains, her sense of the world she inhabits. . . . Harrison has succeeded admirably.” -Washington Post Book World“If the reader is in any doubt at all during the opening pages of Jim Harrison’s 1988 novel Dalva as to whether they’re in the hands of a master craftsman, then it is likely that these doubts will be put to bed not far into its opening chapter. . . . [Harrison] confronts the human world as unshrinkingly as he confronts the natural world and is often examining how the two fit together. . . . His subjects . . . are as violent and raw and strongly regional as those in any work of rural American fiction, but no less intellectually complex. . . . Epic.” -Tom Cox, Guardian“Jim Harrison’s Dalva is the story of a remarkable modern woman’s search for her son. . . . Harrison beautifully conveys Dalva’s essential femininity. . . . Dalva asserts that she has never been seduced-has always, subtly, done the seducing of lovers herself. . . . Harrison’s Dalva may well seduce you, too.” -Los Angeles Times Book Review“Harrison’s style is flexible and capable of great intimacy. . . . Dalva turns out to be a festival of life’s poetry.” -Christian Science Monitor“A fascinating novel about an American woman . . . Harrison uses his pen as a sword to right wrongs and settle scores. . . . He takes bigger risks, letting go of old habits and surrendering to his own impassioned imagination.” -San Francisco Chronicle“Entertaining, moving, and memorable . . . A cast of fascinating characters.” -Publishers Weekly“Dalva is the most memorable character in all of Harrison’s work. . . . Probably the best prose writing of Harrison’s career.” -Michigan: The Magazine of the Detroit News“Diamond-in-the-ro...

-Titulo Original : Vesper Flights-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.Animals don’t exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep.Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.By one of this century’s most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us. Review Praise for Vesper FlightsInstant New York Times BestsellerOne of Washington Posts 10 Best Books of 2020 Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, and Literary HubMacdonald experiments with tempo and style, as if testing out different altitudes and finding she can fly at just about any speed, in any direction, with any aim she likes, so supple is her style. She writes about migration patterns and storms, nests as a metaphor for the domestic and the danger of using nature as metaphor at all. I was reminded of the goshawk, so thickly plumed, so powerful that it can bring down a deer, and yet it weighs only a few pounds. These are the very paradoxes of Macdonald’s prose - its lightness and force. -Parul Sehgal, New York TimesVesper Flights is a book of tremendous purpose. Throughout these essays, Macdonald revisits the idea that as a writer it is her responsibility to take stock of what’s happening to the natural world and to convey the value of the living things within it.” -Washington PostIf you’re looking to see the natural world through someone else’s eyes, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better set than those of Helen Macdonald...[Her] writing is miraculously light and substantive at the same time, and her prose is so beautiful, my review copy was hopelessly dog-eared. What makes her such a great observer is her humility and willingness to crack herself open with awe. -San Francisco ChronicleMacDonald’s writing captures the inexpressible rhythm of being... [Her] essays are, if anything, murmurations for our ominous time - dark yet flashing, stirred from the core. -USA Today“[E]xhilarating… No one describes the everyday natural world with greater power or beauty.” -Slate “Dazzling… Ms. Macdonald reminds us how marvelously unfamiliar much of the nonhuman world remains to us, even as we continue to diminish it.” -Wall Street Journal“For many this year, the great outdoors has been the great beyond, rendering it impossible to feel at one with nature. For this reason, Vesper Flights is essential reading right now. But it is also a book to relish at any time, both for its intelligence and grace, and its ability to edify and enchant in equal measure.” -Minneapolis Star-Tribune“[An] altogether memorable collection . . . Exemplary writing about the intersection of the animal and human worlds.” -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“An inviting collection… infused with wonder, nostalgia, and melancholy. -Publishers Weekly“Gorgeously composed, complexly affecting, and stunningly rev...

-Titulo Original : 1979 (an Allie Burns Novel, 1)-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: From the bestselling author of Escape to the French Farmhouse comes a deliciously feel-good new story... Eliza has a full house! When her three children grew up and moved out, she downsized to a smaller property... but now theyre all back. Every room in the house is taken and Eliza finds herself sharing her bed with her eldest daughter and her daughters pug. Combined with the online course shes trying to finish, plus her job to fit in, there just isnt the peace and quiet that Eliza needs. So when an ad pops up on her laptop saying house-sitters wanted, Eliza cant resist the chance to escape. She ends up moving to a rural finca in southern Spain, looking after the owners Iberico pigs, learning about secret gastronomic societies... and finding a new zest for life and love along the way. Praise for Jo Thomas: Rich, warm and sunny. A story that stays with you long after the last page is turned Milly Johnson Like the very best kind of holiday Lucy Diamond A sparkling, heartwarming hug of a story Miranda Dickinson About the Author Jo Thomas worked for many years as a reporter and producer, including time at Radio 4s Womans Hour and Radio 2s The Steve Wright Show. Jos debut novel, The Oyster Catcher, was a runaway bestseller and won both the RNA Joan Hessayon Award and the Festival of Romance Best Award. Her recent book Escape to the French Farmhouse was a #1 bestselling and in every one of her novels Jo loves to explore new countries and discover the food produced there, both of which she thoroughly enjoys researching. Jo lives in Pembrokeshire with her husband and three children, where cooking and gathering around the kitchen table are a hugely important and fun part of their family life...

-Titulo Original : Brothers In Arms One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War From D-day To Ve-day-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author One of WWII’s finest historians, James Holland is the author of Sicily ’43, Normandy ’44, Big Week, The Rise of Germany and The Allies Strike Back in the War in the West trilogy, and Dam Busters. He has written and presented the BAFTA shortlisted documentaries Battle of Britain and Dam Busters for the BBC, and his WWII podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, now has millions of listeners.griffonmerlin @james1940 Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legendary tank unit, the Sherwood RangersIn the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand out, and among the most notable were the Sherwood Rangers. Originally a cavalry unit in the last days of horses in combat, whose officers were landed gentry leading men who largely worked for them, they were switched to the “mechanized cavalry” of tanks in 1942. Winning acclaim in the North African campaign, the Sherwood Rangers then spearheaded one of the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, led the way across France, were the first British troops to cross into Germany, and contributed mightily to Germany’s surrender in May 1945.Inspired by Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers, acclaimed WWII historian James Holland memorably profiles an extraordinary group of citizen soldiers constantly in harm’s way. Their casualties were horrific, but their ranks immediately refilled. Informed by never-before-seen documents, letters, photographs, and other artifacts from Sherwood Rangers’ families-an ongoing fraternity-and by his own deep knowledge of the war, Holland offers a uniquely intimate portrait of the war at ground level, introducing heretofore unknowns such as Commanding Officer Stanley Christopherson, squadron commander John Semken, and Sergeant George Dring, and other memorable characters who helped the regiment become the single unit with the most battle honors of any ever in the British army. He weaves the Sherwood Rangers’ exploits into the larger narrative and strategy of the war, and also brings fresh analysis to the tactics used.Following the Sherwood Rangers’ brutal journey over the dramatic eleven months between D-Day and V-E Day, Holland presents a vivid and original perspective on the endgame of WWII in Europe. Review Praise for Brothers in Arms:“Holland objects to the way the last year of the war has too often been presented as a seamless narrative of success, an inexorable advance from Normandy to Berlin. He concentrates instead on the forgotten little battles that crowded every day . . . The power of Holland’s book lies in the painful intimacy he creates. The reader gets to know these men as if they exist in the present . . . Impossible to put down. Seldom is war so vividly described . . . Caught up in the drama of battle, we sometimes forget the good men who died. Holland, to his credit, forces us to remember.”-Gerard DeGroot, Times (UK)“Mr. Holland sympathetically captures the chaos swirling inside the 30-ton beasts . . . [He] ably sets up his main characters: men he had the good fortune to interview, or those who left detailed diaries, letters and reminiscences behind . . . Brothers in Arms tells a superb story of World War II’s destruction with a breadth that small-unit narratives cannot match.”-Jonathan W. Jordan, Wall Street Journal“James Holland’s greatest strength as a military historian is that he brings humanity to his work-a rare trait in a field of research that can sometimes feel dominated by those obsessed with numbers . . . He paints a remarkably vivid picture of what his subjects endured and achieved in the closing stages of the conflict. Like a fly on the white-painted interior wall of the Sherman tank, we observe the hot, fume-filled air that makes the crew choke as the extractor fan struggles to clear the smoke . . . A powerful and moving reminder that there is tragedy in statistics.”-Katja Hoyer, Spectator“Holland brings...

-Titulo Original : Search For The Genuine, The Nonfiction, 1970-2015-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrisons essays and journalism-some never before published New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with a poets economy of style and trenchermans appetites and ribald humor. In The Search for the Genuine, a collection of new and previously published essays, the giant of letters muses on everything from grouse hunting fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life- and, for those attempting to cross in the ever-more-dangerous gaps, death-on the US/Mexico border. Written with Harrisons trademark humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, this chronicle of a modern bon vivant is a feast for fans who may think they know Harrisons nonfiction, from a true American original (San Francisco Chronicle). Review Praise for The Search for the Genuine: “Harrison may be gone, but his writing speaks to a force larger than life: it continues to teach and inform years later, which is all a writer could ever really dream of.” -Literary Hub “Spanning 45 years, this new bevy of essays and musings bursts with insight, adventure, and well-lived experiences . . . his writing is always and truly ‘genuine.’ Forthright, perpetually curious, and compassionate, Harrison remains wholly compelling and readers will be grateful that this buoyant, observant, and caring writer took time away from his sublime poetry to create these enriching essays.” -Booklist, starred review “Endlessly charming . . . An essential installment in the Harrison canon.”-Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Harrison devotees will eat this up.”-Publishers Weekly, starred review “A rollicking but sentimental tribute to a life wholly lived.”-CJ Lotz, Garden & Gun “Harrison’s poetic voice and storyteller’s gift are strong in each of these pieces. With sections on writing and writer friends; hunting and hunting dogs; Michigan, Montana, and other favorite haunts; and, of course, fishing, the book makes the reader feel like they are sitting on the next barstool, listening to a master raconteur weave his tales. Harrison’s voice is, as always, filled with such a passion for living that it’s difficult to believe he’s gone. This collection is a welcome addition to the disbelief.” -Marc Beaudin, Big Sky Journal “[The] great chronicler of America and her natural beauty . . . [Harrison] lived a singular life, a true American original, and The Search for the Genuine offers a glimpse into a life lived on the margins but at the center of what matters.” -Alex Perez, Return “Over the course of his long career as a writer, Jim Harrison wrote eloquently about the American outdoors in countless ways. The Search for the Genuine assembles 45 years’ worth of his nonfiction, covering subjects ranging from Yellowstone National Park to searching for sharks. Looking for a lyrical, meditative take on the grandest subjects out there? Look no further.” -Tobias Carroll, InsideHook “Rich with Harrison’s consummate humor and characteristic empathy.”-Jana Hoops, Jackson Clarion-Ledge “Harrison was one of America’s most genuine writers and his “Search” ruminates about love, literature, hunting, fishing, border life and the magic of place.”-Bruce Dinges, Arizona Daily Star “You will see the world in a different light and soon realize you are reading the work of a genius. Many readers will also learn he was a lot like you (and me).” -Bill Castanier, CityPulse “The Harrison who emerges here is recognizable, but also useful, reminding readers of the value of curiosity and range, whether in miles or mindset.” -Glen Young, Petoskey News-Review Praise for Jim Harrison: “Among the most indelible American novelists of the last...

-Titulo Original : The Sympathizer A Novel (pulitzer Prize For Fiction)-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Review Praise for The Sympathizer: Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Winner of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction) Winner of the 2016 California Book Award for First Fiction Winner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Creative Writing (Prose) Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Finalist for the 2016 Medici Book Club Prize Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Mystery/Thriller) Finalist for the 2016 ABA Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Award (Book of the Year, Adult Fiction) Shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Named a Best Book of the Year on more than twenty lists, including the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post “A layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a ‘man of two minds’-and two countries, Vietnam and the United States.”-Pulitzer Prize Citation “[A] remarkable debut novel . . . [Nguyen] brings a distinctive perspective to the war and its aftermath. His book fills a void in the literature, giving voice to the previously voiceless . . . The nameless protagonist-narrator, a memorable character despite his anonymity, is an Americanized Vietnamese with a divided heart and mind. Nguyen’s skill in portraying this sort of ambivalent personality compares favorably with masters like Conrad, Greene, and le Carre. . . . Both thriller and social satire. . . . In its final chapters, The Sympathizer becomes an absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet.”-Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review (cover review) “This is more than a fresh perspective on a familiar subject. [The Sympathizer] is intelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely funny . . . The voice of the double-agent narrator, caustic yet disarmingly honest, etches itself on the memory.”-Wall Street Journal (WSJ’s Best Books of 2015) “Nguyen doesn’t shy away from how traumatic the Vietnam War was for everyone involved. Nor does he pass judgment about where his narrator’s loyalties should lie. Most war stories are clear about which side you should root for-The Sympathizer doesn’t let the reader off the hook so easily . . . Despite how dark it is, The Sympathizer is still a fast-paced, entertaining read . . . a much-needed Vietnamese perspective on the war.”-Bill Gates, Gates Notes “Extraordinary . . . Surely a new classic of war fiction. . . . [Nguyen] has wrapped a cerebral thriller around a desperate expat story that confronts the existential dilemmas of our age. . . . Laced with insight on the ways nonwhite people are rendered invisible in the propaganda that passes for our pop culture. . . . I haven’t read anything since Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four that illustrates so palpably how a patient tyrant, unmoored from all humane constraint, can reduce a man’s mind to liquid.”-Washington Post “The great achievement of The Sympathizer is that it gives the Vietnamese a voice and demands that we pay attention. Until now, it’s been largely a one-sided conversation-or at least that’s how it seems in American popular culture . . . We’ve never had a story quite like this one before. . . . [Nguyen] has a great deal to say and a knowing, playful, deeply intelligent voice . . . There are so many passages to admire. Mr. Nguyen is a master of the telling ironic phrase and the biting detail, and the book pulses with Catch-22-style absurdities.”-New York Times “Beautifully written and meaty . . . really compelling. I had that kid-like feeling of being inside the book.”-Claire Messud, Boston Globe “Thrilling in its virtuosity, as in its masterly exploitation of the espio...

-Titulo Original : Leopoldstadt-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Finally making its Broadway debut in a limited engagement run, Tom Stoppard’s humane and heartbreaking Olivier Award-winning play of love, family, and enduranceAt the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, a city humming with artistic and intellectual excitement. Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Catholic Gretl, whose extended family convene at their fashionable apartment on Christmas Day in 1899. Yet by the time the play closes, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, which stole the lives of 65,000 Austrian Jews alone. From one of today’s most acclaimed playwrights, Leopoldstadt is a human and heartbreaking drama of literary brilliance, historical verisimilitude, and powerful emotion. Review Praise for Leopoldstadt: “Polished to a burnished sheen by the director Patrick Marber . . . Feels like an act of personal reckoning for its creator-with who he is and what he comes from . . . A group portrait, and one of uncommon density . . . Stoppard’s most topical play . . . Here, recollection is a laser, a tool to be focused on a past teeming with harsh and essential lessons for the present.”-Ben Brantley, New York Times (Critic’s Pick) “A story of devotion wrapped in doom . . . Through his gallery of characters, Stoppard refracts something searingly vivid about the indelible truth of one’s roots, about the erasures time and circumstances and neglect impose on memory, about the guilt that attends the survival of a genocide . . . Stoppard’s words contribute another poetic verse to a long and tragic elegy.”-Peter Marks, Washington Post “[A] great and powerful production.”-Chloe Schama, Vogue “Breathtaking . . . A play that asks what we owe our own imperfect memories . . . An epic, formatively brilliant work.”-Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune “A lasting gift of remembrance in the brilliant, gorgeous, and devastating new play Leopoldstadt . . . Full of digressions and discussions and dialogue as funny as it is poignant.”-Greg Evans, Deadline “The fulfillment of a lifetime’s theatrical journey.”-Michael Billington, Guardian “[Stoppard’s] most personal work ever, one which uses a slow excavation of his own Jewish history to create an epic family saga, examining-among many other themes-what it means to be Jewish . . . A summation of sorts.”-Sarah Crompton, Vogue “An entirely gripping piece of theater . . . A revelation for those who are unfamiliar with its tragic tale, and it will provide a deepening understanding of the causes and consequences of Jewish hope and nostalgia in the face of the Holocaust for those who are . . . Streaked with melancholy but also with the characteristic Stoppard humor and skepticism.”-Daphne Merkin, Air Mail “[Stoppard’s] most personal play yet.”-Times (UK) “The news that Tom Stoppard has written a new drama ranks as top-end seismic activity.”-Telegraph About the Author Tom Stoppard is the author of such seminal works as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia. His screen credits include Parade’s End, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma, Empire of the Sun, and Anna Karenina...

-Titulo Original : Foster-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Review An Amazon Best Book of November 2022:In Keegans latest novella, a girl is dropped off at a farm in rural Ireland to live indefinitely with relatives while her mother awaits the birth of her youngest child. There, young Ann experiences a level of love, care, and attention she didnt know she was missing. And, in her blooming, her foster parents begin to come to terms with events in their past. Somehow, what Keegan doesnt put on the page manages to convey as much as what she does. Between whats written and whats not breathes an exquisite, tender, and heart-expanding story, as Keegan creates more magic in 128 pages than others could do in 928 pages. -Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household-where everything is so well tended to-and this summer must soon come to an end. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker,this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan’s great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers. Review Praise for Foster A Best Book of November from TIME and Washington Post “Claire Keegan’s beautiful new novella, Foster, is no less likely to move you than any heaping 400-page tome you’ll read this year… Keegan’s novella is a master class in child narration. The voice resists the default precociousness, and walks the perfect balance between naivete and acute emotional intelligence… Like a great, long Ishiguro novel, Keegan makes us complicit in what her characters want, setting us up for utter heartbreak when they don’t get it.” - New York Times “Keegan’s work takes me back to when I first experienced the palpable thrill of entering an author’s world. Her sentences are so artfully honed but so free of artifice they feel as rough and verdant as sprigs of fresh heather…I don’t want to say anything more about Foster, except ‘Read it.’” - Ron Charles, Washington Post Book Club “Keegans output is scarce and her stories are as spare as they are heartrending, whittled down to the essential. If she has published anything that isnt perfect, I havent seen it… More than most books four times its size, Foster does several of the things we ask of great literature: It expands our world, diverting our attention outward, and it opens up our hearts and minds. This is a small book with a miraculously outsized impact.” - NPR “Foster is exactly as sad as you imagine it would be, but more stunningly alive than you have any right to expect. Its language settles in your belly and then your bones only seconds after it has passed your eyes… Keegan’s world is lush and full, the details delicately made, ever more rewarding and engaging with every read… While the scale of her story is modest - this one small girl, this short stretch of time - the scope of what Keegan can hold inside of it - the ache of living, the flash of seeing finally what we don’t have, the mourning for all we’ll never be - is as big, brash and ambitious as a story might be.” - Los Angeles Times “Enchanting… a study of familial heartache and generosity.” - Washington Post “The austere style and measured pacing of “Foster” is perfect… [A] matchless novella.” - Wall Street Journal “Balancing Keegan’s ...

-Titulo Original : Writers & Lovers A Novel-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Review An Amazon Best Book of March 2020: At 31, Casey is still holding onto her dream of being a novelist. Most of her artist friends have given up their artist dreams for more practical, and lucrative, endeavors; but Casey writes and makes ends meet by waitressing and walking her landlord’s dog. Writers & Lovers is Lily King’s follow up to her 2014 breakthrough novel Euphoria, which was loosely based on the experiences of Margaret Mead, and one might expect King to tread a similar path in this new book. But this is a different novel altogether. That said, it’s a very enjoyable read, a breath of fresh air, with characters that leap off the page. Writers & Lovers is about the uncertainty of dating, and of pursuing the creative life, in a world that values success and stability. Life does not wait for Casey to fulfill her dream, if that dream even comes. So she works and she dates, and she tries to figure it out as she goes. Love and art require daily, often imperceptible, leaps of faith-and this book captures that perfectly. -Chris Schluep, the Amazon Book Review #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick A New York Times Book Review’s Group Text Selection I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life. -Curtis Sittenfeld An extraordinary new novel of art, love, and ambition from Lily King, the New York Times bestselling author of Euphoria Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with another instant New York Times bestseller: an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she’s been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey’s fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink. Writers & Lovers follows Casey-a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist-in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King’s trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another. Review Praise for Writers & Lovers: New York Times Bestseller New England Societys Book Award for Fiction Named one of The Best Fiction Books of 2020 by Kirkus One of Washington Posts 10 Best Books of 2020 TODAY SHOWS #READWITHJENNA MARCH SELECTION EMMA ROBERTS BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB APRIL SELECTION A New York Times Book Review’s Group Text Selection Amazon Spotlight Selection Indie Next Pick Named one of The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2020 by Entertainment Weekly Named one of 41 Best Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2020 by Vogue Named one of 19 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2020 by The Amazon Book Review Named one of The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now by Marie Claire Named one of 32 Best New Books of 2020 by Vulture Named one of The Best New Books in Pick of the Week by People Named One of Lit Hubs Most Anticipated Books of 2020 “[A] comic and compassionate novel… It shares with [Euphoria] a fascination with the difficulty of defining the worth of one’s life when the familiar markers...

-Titulo Original : Waiting For Godot A Tragicomedy In Two Acts-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), one of the leading literary and dramatic figures of the twentieth century, was born in Foxrock, Ireland and attended Trinity University in Dublin. In 1928, he visited Paris for the first time and fell in with a number of avant-garde writers and artists, including James Joyce. In 1937, he settled in Paris permanently. Beckett wrote in both English and French, though his best-known works are mostly in the latter language. A prolific writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, he is remembered principally for his works for the theater, which belong to the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd and are characterized by their minimalist approach, stripping drama to its barest elements. In 1969, Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and commended for having transformed the destitution of man into his exaltation. Beckett died in Paris in 1989. At the age of seventy-six he said: With diminished concentration, loss of memory, obscured intelligence... the more chance there is for saying something closest to what one really is. Even though everything seems inexpressible, there remains the need to express. A child need to make a sand castle even though it makes no sense. In old age, with only a few grains of sand, one has the greatest possibility. (from Playwrights at Work, ed. by George Plimpton, 2000) Performed across the globe by some of the worlds most iconic performers, Samuel Becketts indelible masterpiece remains an unwavering testament of what it means to be human. From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, “Time catches up with genius … Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.” The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone-or something-named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time. Review Praise for Waiting for Godot “One of the true masterpieces of the century.” -Clive Barnes, The New York Times “One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished; a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity; with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain.”-The Times (London) “Beckett is an incomparable spellbinder. He writes with rhetoric and music that . . . make a poet green with envy.” -Stephen Spender “Reading Beckett for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature.”-Paul Auster “[Godot is ] among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century. The nonstory of two tramps at loose ends in a landscape barren of all but a single tree, amusing or distracting themselves from oppressive boredom while they wait for a mysterious figure who never arrives, the play became the ur-text for theatrical innovation and existential thought in the latter half of 20th century.” -Christopher Isherwood, The New York Time...

-Titulo Original : Bloodbath Nation-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Book: Bloodbath Nation - Paul Auster Product Description An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and genuine American original (The Boston Globe), in an unforgettable collaboration with photographer Spencer Ostrander Like most American boys of his generation, Paul Auster grew up playing with toy six-shooters and mimicking the gun-slinging cowboys in B Westerns. A skilled marksman by the age of ten, he also lived through the traumatic aftermath of the murder of his grandfather by his grandmother when his father was a child and knows, through firsthand experience, how families can be wrecked by a single act of gun violence. In this short, searing book, Auster traces centuries of America s use and abuse of guns, from the violent displacement of the native population to the forced enslavement of millions, to the bitter divide between embattled gun control and anti-gun control camps that has developed over the past 50 years and the mass shootings that dominate the news today. Since 1968, more than one and a half million Americans have been killed by guns. The numbers are so large, so catastrophic, so disproportionate to what goes on elsewhere, that one must ask why. Why is America so different and why are we the most violent country in the Western world? Interwoven with Spencer Ostrander s haunting photographs of the sites of more than thirty mass shootings in all parts of the country, Bloodbath Nation presents a succinct but thorough examination of America at a crossroads, and asks the central, burning question of our moment: What kind of society do we want to live in? A portion of proceeds from this book will be donated to the Violence Policy Center, a nonprofit organization working to stop gun death and injury through research, education, and advocacy. Review [Bloodbath Nation is] remarkably powerful...Accompanying Auster s sobering, impassioned plea are haunting black-and-white photographs taken by Spencer Ostrander. –Alex Kotlowitz in the Washington Post Auster s book is exactly what is needed at this time. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment The stories Auster shares belong to every American [...] Ostrander contributes forty-one images, each in its way as riveting as Auster s text. Why? Because all of us living in America have been there: that supermarket aisle, that sidewalk, that classroom. We are all going there today. This, of course as the author recognizes is the crux of the matter, that we are the problem we cannot solve. The power of Auster s book is that it never blinks in articulating this dilemma, that it doesn t let anybody off the hook. Gun violence in the United States is a collective problem, after all which also means, as Bloodbath Nation argues so compellingly, that it is a collective responsibility.--David Ulin, 4Columns.org [A] powerful look at the causes and consequences of gun violence in America.... For Auster, who casts doubt on the likelihood of judicial or legislative remedies, the end to the gun debate will only occur when both sides want it, and in order for that to happen, we would first have to conduct an honest, gut-wrenching examination of who we are and who we want to be as a people going forward into the future. This trenchant account goes a long way toward making that possible. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Exceptional in its clarity and arresting in its sense of urgency... A harrowing, haunting reflection on the routine slaughter wrought by guns. Kirkus (starred review) A rigorous and evocative grappling with mass tragedies in this time of furious discord. Booklist An anguished cry of bafflement at this country s obsession for guns... deals with the societal consequences of sacrificing thousands of lives. Library Journal Deft and dogged and entirely too contemplative to be a screed... Accounts of [Auster s] personal experience with guns merge with sociological observations and a partial i Importado, textos en ingles!!! ...

-Titulo Original : The Covenant Of Water (oprahs Book Club)-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret “One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”-Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning-and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl-and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi-will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants. A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years...

-Titulo Original : Monkey: Folk Novel Of China-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking adventure. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies. This translation, by the distinguished scholar Arthur Waley, is the first accurate English version; it makes available to the Western reader a faithful reproduction of the spirit and meaning of the original. From the Back Cover Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies...

-Titulo Original : The Master And Margarita-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: A soaring, dazzling novel (The New York Times), Mirra Ginsburgs critically-acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalins time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakovs masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on human frailty and the strength of love. In The Master and Margarita, the Devil himself pays a visit to Soviet Moscow. Accompanied by a retinue that includes the fast-talking, vodka-drinking, giant tomcat Behemoth, he sets about creating a whirlwind of chaos that soon involves the beautiful Margarita and her beloved, a distraught writer known only as the Master, and even Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate. The Master and Margarita combines fable, fantasy, political satire, and slapstick comedy to create a wildly entertaining and unforgettable tale that is commonly considered the greatest novel to come out of the Soviet Union. It appears in this edition in a translation by Mirra Ginsburg that was judged brilliant by Publishers Weekly...

-Titulo Original : Three Novels Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy. Molloy, the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by Malone Dies and two years later by The Unnamable. All three have been rendered into English by the author...