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Rules of Civility
'Irresistible' 'Fabulous''Gripping'Daily TelegraphObserverThe Sunday TimesIn a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: the location of every old church in Manhattanhow to sneak into the cinemahow to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a yearand that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine.By the end of the year she'd learned:how to live like a redheadand insist upon the very best;that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat,chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison.That's how quickly New York City comes about, like a weathervane, or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.'A delicious and memorable novel that will leave you wistful - and desperate for a martini.' Stylist
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Choice
From Booker-shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee, a devastating new novel that exposes the myths of individual choice. How have we come to live this way? At what cost? Who pays the price?
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The Lighthouse Tattoo
In his fourth full-length collection, Jose Hernandez Diaz explores the first-generation Mexican American experience in nuanced linear verse, avant-garde offerings, and deadpan absurdist prose poems. The Lighthouse Tattoo features plainspoken pieces that reveal the Latinx experience through the lens of a socially conscious contrarian in work that melds the quotidian and the profound. Also included, of course, are experimental prose poems in the signature style and voice that contributed to the meteoric rise of this unique artist. Invoking James Tate, Gabriel García Márquez, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Albert Camus, Marosa di Giorgio, and others, Hernandez Diaz cements his place in both the poetic and surrealist traditions. Even as it unravels mysteries and explores the strange--zebras in a zoo on the moon or English dragons on the Pacific Coast Highway--The Lighthouse Tattoo shines its light on the complex emotions of a seasoned Latinx poet. In this extraordinary volume, the titular tattoo itself becomes evidence of a trauma survived, an apt metaphor for the book as a whole. As one speaker says, "I'm trapped inside of this prose poem, but I don't want to get out. It's nice and cozy in here. I'm invincible."
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White Houses
In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives. Told by the indomitable Hick, White Houses is the story of Eleanor and Hick's hidden love, and of Hick's unlikely journey from her dirt-poor childhood to the centre of privilege and power. Filled with fascinating back-room politics, the secrets and scandals of the era, and exploring the potency of enduring love, it is an imaginative tour-de-force from a writer of extraordinary and exuberant talent.
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Lucky Us
When Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to have much in common - except, they soon discover, a father. Thrown together with no mothers to care for them and a father who could not be considered a parent, Iris and Eva become one another's family. Iris wants to be a movie star; Eva is her sidekick. Together, they journey across 1940s America from scandal in Hollywood to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island, stumbling, cheating and loving their way through a landscape of war, betrayals and big dreams.
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Away
Amy Bloom's Away revitalizes the American road-trip novel from the perspective of a vulnerable but spirited woman. It paints a vivid, earthy and surprising picture of 1920s America, its smells and textures, its population of drifters and con artists, pimps and prostitutes. Away is storytelling at its finest - epic in sweep, but intimate and psychologically acute, moving but unsentimental. Like the novels of Sarah Waters, it is both richly authentic in its period detail and fresh and contemporary in its style. But, above all, Bloom has created an unforgettable character in Lillian Leyb - her voice, haunted, damaged yet innocent, passionate, witty and unpretentious, is so believable and strong that her presence lingers long after the novel ends.
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Ein klarer Tag
Eine einsame Shetlandinsel. Zwei Männer aus unterschiedlichen Welten. Eine zerbrechliche Freundschaft. Dies ist eines der Bücher, die man unmöglich vergisst.Es ist ein kalter Sommertag 1843, als John Ferguson nach einer stürmischen Überfahrt die kleine, karge Insel im Nordmeer erreicht. Für einen Monat ist der verarmte Pfarrer von der schottischen Freikirche hierhergeschickt worden, um Ivar, den letzten verbliebenen Bewohner, von der Insel wegzuschaffen. Im Auftrag des Gutsbesitzers soll er den großen, stillen Mann samt seinen wenigen Habseligkeiten mit dem nächsten Schiff nach Aberdeen bringen, von seinem Zuhause verjagen. So wie all die Schafbauern in den Highlands, die im Zuge der 'Clearances' bereits alles verloren haben. Trotz moralischer Bedenken hat der idealistische Ferguson diesen Auftrag angenommen. Seine Frau Mary indes befürchtet, dass ihr Mann nicht von dieser Reise zurückkehren könnte. Zu naiv, zu weltfremd, zu gutgläubig ist er. Und tatsächlich stürzt Ferguson schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft von einer Klippe und verletzt sich schwer. Er ist dem Mann ausgeliefert, den er von dem Eiland vertreiben soll. Und dessen Güte Fergusons Gewissen vor eine schwierige Entscheidung stellt.
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Beartooth
A tale of two brothers in desperate straits and one high-stakes poaching trip in Yellowstone from a Dylan Thomas Prize shortlisted author.
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The Volcano Daughters
Set in 20th-century El Salvador, The Volcano Daughters is a powerful novel about sisterhood, art, and a community of women who refuse to be silenced. 'A gripping and spellbinding novel about a sisterhood ripped apart by violence, narrated by a ghostly chorus. An unforgettable debut.' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half El Salvador, 1923. Two sisters, raised in the shadow of a brutal dictatorship, must take separate journeys to escape the genocide that engulfs the country they love. Each believing the other to be dead, they flee across the globe, reinventing themselves and building very different lives along the way. But their paths will cross once more, for neither girl can forget the ghosts of the murdered friends they left behind. Fate will bring them back together, and when that happens, the voices of the dead will be heard once more. Their story is not yet over. Endlessly surprising, vividly imaginative, bursting with lush life, The Volcano Daughters is a story about the strength of sisterhood against all odds. * A Most Anticipated Book of the Year from Vulture and Electric Literature *
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Güven
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The Parachutist
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Uzaklarda
Son dönemin en parlak yazarlarindan Arjantin asilli Amerikali Hernan Diaz, PenFaulkner Ödülüne aday gösterilen, Whiting Ödülünü kazanan, Publishers Weekly tarafindan yayimlandigi yilin en iyi on kitabi arasinda gösterilen ilk romani Uzaklarda ile finale kaldigi Pulitzer Kurgu Ödülünü daha sonra ikinci romaniyla aldi. On dokuzuncu yüzyilda, yoksul bir Isvecli cocuk, kardesiyle New Yorka gidecegine, kendisini Amerikanin öteki kiyisinda, tek basina Kaliforniyada bulur. Dilini bilmedigi insanlarin arasinda bir ömür boyu kardesini ararken caresiz göcmenler, hirsli madenciler, batakhane patronlari, cölde ilk insani arayan tabiatcilar, yardimsever yerliler, yeni hayat umudundaki yerlesimciler, soyguncu dinbazlar, dolandirici serifler arasinda sürüklenip durur. Tabiatin ve insanin her türlü eziyetine katlanir, büyüdükce devlesir, devlestikce efsanelesir. Oscarli The Revenant filmiyle Cormac McCarthynin Blood Meridian gibi yapitlari arasinda salinan, kahramani Sahin Hkan ile simdiden klasiklesmeye aday Uzaklarda, issiz Vahsi Batinin hasin dogasinda, soluk kesici bir büyüme romani. Anlati ufuk kadar pürüzsüz... Sanki Herman Melville okyanus yerine Amerikan Batisinda seyre cikmis. THE NATION Huckleberry Finni Cormac McCarthy yazmis gibi Evin anlami üzerine bir tefekkür oldugu kadar bir serüven hikayesi. THE SUNDAY TIMES
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