By Dustin Long

ISBN-10: 1555848648

ISBN-13: 9781555848644

Icelander is the debut novel from a super new brain, an tricky, giddy romp steeped both in Nordic lore and pulpy intrigue. while Shirley MacGuffin is located murdered sooner or later ahead of the yearly city party in remembrance of Our Heroine’s mom –– the mythical crime-stopper and evil-thwarter Emily Bean –– every body expects Our Heroine to stick with in her mother’s footsteps and remedy the case. She, although, has little interest in inheriting the relations enterprise, or being chased via steam-tunnels, or hearing skaldic karaoke, or fleeing the inhuman Refurserkir. yet evil has no real interest in her loss of curiosity. A Nabokovian goof on Agatha Christie, a madcap secret that's half The 3rd Policeman and half The Da Vinci Code, The Icelander is something specially else: a real unique.

By Allegra Goodman

ISBN-10: 0307573710

ISBN-13: 9780307573711

Allegra Goodman has overjoyed readers along with her severely acclaimed collections overall Immersion and The kin Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was once a countrywide bestseller and a countrywide booklet Award finalist.

Abandoned by way of her folk-dancing associate, Gary, in a Honolulu lodge room, Sharon realizes she may perhaps go back to Boston--and her estranged family--or take heed to that little voice inside of herself. The voice that asks: "How come Gary obtained to pursue his explanations, whereas all I obtained to pursue was once him?" hence, with an open middle, a soul on hearth, and her meager possessions (a guitar, Indian gauze skirts, a macramé bikini, and her grandfather's silver watch) Sharon starts her personal religious quest. Ever the optimist, she is certain at each one level that she has struck it wealthy "spiritually speaking"--until she comes up empty. Then, in a karmic convergence of occasions, Sharon begins at the direction domestic to Judaism. nonetheless, whilst she embraces her culture, Sharon's irrepressible self tugs at her sleeve. in particular whilst she meets Mikhail, falls actually in love eventually, and discovers what even she couldn't imagine--her destiny.

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By Lynne Sharon Schwartz

ISBN-10: 1453287582

ISBN-13: 9781453287583

With a reader’s viewpoint and a grasp writer’s ability, severely acclaimed novelist Lynne Sharon Schwartz takes at the international at large

Communication, whereas crucial, is sort of very unlikely to take care of perfectly—a truism Lynne Sharon Schwartz demonstrates during this wonderful essay assortment. in a single part, she discovers that one typo may perhaps thoroughly derail a venture whereas translating an Italian account of the Holocaust. In one other essay, she deconstructs our dependence at the cell. such a lot movingly, she info the ways in which friendship can develop within the impossible areas, and the way tricky these bonds should be to maintain.

In a prior choice of essays, Ruined by means of Reading, Schwartz took at the global of literature, writing, and books. Now, Schwartz extends her concentration whereas carrying on with to discover her topic truthfully and forcefully.

By Edmond Faral

Excerpt from Courtois d'Arras, Jeu du Xiiie Siècle

Dans l'histoire du théâtre, une telle pièce occupe une position importante. L'invention en est spirituelle et le type heureux; mais l'intérêt des questions qu'elle soulève ajoute à sa valeur propre.

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By Christopher Heywood

ISBN-10: 0521153786

ISBN-13: 9780521153782

Christopher Heywood surveys consultant South African poems, performs and prose works in 5 literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. Heywood's choices contain over a hundred authors and chosen works--covering poetry, theater and prose. Explored within the context of crises resulting in the formation of recent South Africa, South African literature emerges from this examine as one of many nice literatures of the trendy international.

By John Schad

ISBN-10: 1441148612

ISBN-13: 9781441148612

“'as interesting because the such a lot experimental avant-garde mobilizations of literature in the course of the interwar interval. Stein, Breton, Pirandello and Pessoa come to mind.'” – Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University

A startling critical-creative exam of 1 of the 20 th Century's prime thinkers, The overdue Walter Benjamin is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the existence and demise of Walter Benjamin with the times, hours and mins of a working-class council property at the fringe of London in post-war Austerity England. the unconventional centres on one specific tenant who claims to be Walter Benjamin, and basically ever makes use of phrases written through Benjamin, it seems that oblivious that the true Benjamin devoted suicide two decades previous when fleeing the Nazis. in the beginning set within the sixties, the textual content slips again to the early years of the property and to Benjamin's final days, as he strikes throughout Europe looking ever-more desperately to flee the 3rd Reich. via this fictional narrative, John Schad explores not just the emergence of Benjamin's considering from a politicised Jewish theology compelled to confront the increase of Nazism but in addition the consequences of his utopian Marxism, cast in exile, for the very assorted context of a displaced operating type group in post-war Britain.

By Robert Coover

Previews, coming sights, horror, romance, secret, even intermissions--you identify the kind of motion picture and there's a fiction inside this assortment to hide it--all written with the exuberance you've come to count on in Robert Coover's writing.

By Ralph J. Salisbury

ISBN-10: 0585146101

ISBN-13: 9780585146102

ISBN-10: 0806130881

ISBN-13: 9780806130880

By Ward Anderson

ISBN-10: 075829431X

ISBN-13: 9780758294319

How do you inform exact twins Steven and Scotty apart?

Hint: one in all them is lifeless.

Steven is the practical dual with a wise activity, good outfits, brilliant haircut, and good female friend. He works as a sommelier and has annoyingly reliable flavor. Scotty is the wild one, a unfastened spirit who travels the realm, will get inebriated, will get laid, then will get in difficulty. They haven't spoken in 3 years. And now Scotty is useless.

Upon listening to the inside track of his brother's deadly aneurism, Steven hops on a aircraft to Singapore to retrieve the physique. He discovers that his dual had a scorching neighborhood female friend, which isn't impressive. With Scotty, there has been continuously a girl--usually younger and lovely, yet no longer the type of lady to die for. Dania is one other tale. She's horny, shrewdpermanent, sings in a cocktail bar, and notices a remarkable similarity among Steven and his dual: "You appear like difficulty, too." She needs to be correct simply because, over the following few days, Steven unearths himself shirking his staid existence again domestic, speaking to Scotty's ashes--and turning into dangerously concerned with the single girl who may possibly recognize the reality approximately his brother's dying. . .

By Catherine Mann

ISBN-10: 1101583142

ISBN-13: 9781101583142

THEY'D DO whatever FOR COUNTRY.

AND EVERYTHING for every OTHER.

After a dismal ops malfunction, significant David Berg unearths himself useless middle in an army trial. It's a race opposed to time to root out the reality, and significant Sophie Campbell isn't making that any more uncomplicated. the recent JAG desires to convey down David's unit and speedy. His testimony is important to successful a case that might make her profession. All Sophie has to do is forget about this witness's unflappable allure, his unnerving attractiveness, and a powerful, reliable presence that instructions her attention.

It's challenging for David, both. His allure to this take-charge good looks is popping him within out. yet those adversaries have extra in universal than mystery, mutual wish. There's a traitor someplace in the dead of night ops and now, to discover him, David and Sophie needs to paintings together—relentlessly, tirelessly, and so in detail it may be rattling close to deadly.