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A Week in October
Written by Elizabeth Subercaseaux, Translated by Marina Harss
A mystery novel where the heart is the culprit and the reader is the detective sleuthing for two truths—the story’s and their own
A Week in October is a thriller for those of us who usually prefer a good love story that you just can’t put down. In other words…
The Ethics of the Lie
Written by Jean-Michel Rabaté, Translated by Suzanne Verderber
Pinocchio knows: the unconscious knowledge of the conscious lie.
From little white lies to the deepest, darkest ones, it is an accepted fact that we—like the boy who cried wolf—lie very often, at least three times a day. The thesis of this erudite and entertaining book is that lies…
On a Day Like This
Written by Peter Stamm, Translated by Michael Hofmann
A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange Gardens
On a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor’s visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of…
The Open Door
Written by Elizabeth Maguire
“The story is the journey, not the destination. Or so the philosopher’s say. But this is my story, and it has a beginning, a middle, and an end….”
The Open Door is a luminous and profoundly moving novel inspired by the life of Constance Fenimore Woolson, one of the most widely-read…
Julien Parme
Written by Florian Zeller
The Catcher in the Rye with a French accent.
Even if it blows your mind, I want to tell you about this unbelievable thing that happened to me last year. I’m not bragging, but things as unbelievable as the one I’m going to tell you about don’t happen every day,…
Kafka Comes to America
Written by Steven T. Wax
A public defender’s dedicated struggle to rescue two innocent men from the recent Kafkaesque practices of our vandalized justice system
“Our government can make you disappear.” Those were the words Steven Wax never imagined he would hear himself say. In his twenty-nine years as a public defender, Wax had never…
Adam the King
Written by Jeffrey Lewis
The wedding of billionaire Adam Bloch and Maisie Maclaren is the event of the year in Clement’s Cove, Maine—a town in which the mansion-like “cottages” of the summering elite sit side-by-side with the modest homes of working-class locals. Adam, a shy, tentative man with a terrible tragedy in his past,…
HomeSpun
Written by Nilita Vachani
“Superb tale-spinning—a beam of light in contemporary Indian fiction.”— Mira Nair, director of The Namesake
“When Nanaji was shown Naneeji’s photograph, he looked at it for a long time. He had said ‘no’ so often that it was surprising when he looked up and said ‘yes’ just like that. They were…
The King of Corsica
Written by Michael Kleeberg, Translated by David Dollenmayer
A modern classic where history, philosophy, and eroticism collide in the grand tradition of the 18th-century novel.
The son of an impoverished Westphalian aristocrat, Theodor von Neuhoff is both seductive and opportunistic. Sent to Versailles to be a page to Princess Palatine, he distinguishes himself as a brilliant and…
Biology of Freedom
Written by François Ansermet, Pierre Magistretti, Translated by Susan Fairfield
This groundbreaking book delivers a much needed bridge between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis.
Freud hoped that the neurosciences would offer support for his psychoanalysis theories at some point in the future: both disciplines, after all, agree that experience leaves traces in the mind. But even today, as we enter…
