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Over the course of a three-day funeral, a woman discovers new sides to her deceased father in this hilarious and heart-tugging masterwork from one of Korea's most fearless writers. So, Father died. Slammed his head into a telephone pole. A very serious man had seriously come to the end of his...

From the acclaimed author of She Would Be King, a dazzling and daring work of magical realism that weaves through the lives of a Liberian immigrant family and the water goddess who haunts them In this ambitious new novel, the bestselling and prize-winning writer Wayétu Moore delivers us into...

“Nobody delves as deep into the guts of motherhood as Ashley Audrain; she really is in a league of her own.” —Lisa Jewell From the New York Times bestselling author of The Push, a bold, unputdownable story of motherhood, desire, betrayal, and loss told by a mother after her own death...

Dual Narration With the wisdom and heart that charmed readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a magical novel in which eleven souls get the chance to return to the loved ones they left behind in a most unusual way. What if you could come back after death to watch over a a beloved, your soul...

Von seinem verblassenden Ruhm als Held bei Waterloo kann sich Rider Sandman im London des Jahres 1817 leider nichts kaufen. Aus schierer Not übernimmt er einen Auftrag des Innenministers: Er soll routinemäßig die Hintergründe eines Todesurteils prüfen. Der Fall: eine Dame von Adel...

小学5年生の娘・奏を育てる千緒は、自治会を変えようと孤軍奮闘する子ども会会長・剣崎さんの力になるため、子ども会の役員を引き受けることに。男性中心の自治会の在り方、外国人住民への差別、保護者夫婦間のモラハラ問題。目の前の出来事に怒り、落ち込み、迷いながら、千緒は子ども会の活動を通し、「町」と「自分」を見つめ直していく。

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE DISCOVERIES AWARD 'With shades of Patricia Highsmith, Imaginary Forces is a cut above' JENNIE GODFREY 'A compelling debut, made all the more memorable by its brilliantly flawed narrator' JOANNA MILLER 'Seductive and addictive. Utterly singular' ABIGAIL DEAN 'A...

A gripping family drama wrapped in a missing-persons case, set during the historic Buffalo blizzard of ‘77. “At once intimate and epic, affecting and very funny, and compulsively readable from start to finish.” —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of Same As It Ever Was...

An artistic "gem," (Historical Novel Society) as revealing as it is beautifully told from beloved author "Sean of the South." "The Southern story you've been waiting for." --Patti Callahan Henry, NYT bestselling author "A heartwarming and well-told tale with lyrical writing." --Boo Walker...

An offbeat, funny and moving coming-of-age campus novel by a Yale professor and film actor (One Battle After Another, Marty Supreme) in the tradition of John Williams’s Stoner, Michael Chabon’s Wonder Boys and Elif Batuman’s The Idiot. It’s the start of another fall semester at a...

The plan was simple. Everything else was not. Six-year-old Adalia Wright has an unusual way of processing grief. She buries dolls in the backyard. She reads National Geographic for tips on Aboriginal and Aztec death rituals instead of reaching for storybooks. And she has recently attempted to...

A new translation of Poor Folk, the debut novella that first brought the author of Crime and Punishment fame at the age of twenty-five, along with his other early stories, all showcasing the concern for human dignity that animated his later work. The short novel Poor Folk portrays the passionate...

Als die ersten Flocken fallen, neigt sich das Jahr in der Freitagsbuchhandlung dem Ende zu – der vierte Roman der Freitagsbuchhandlung von Sawako Natori Der Jahreswechsel rückt immer näher, und der Winter bringt eine so ungewöhnliche Kälte mit sich, dass die vertrauten Abläufe ins Wanken...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? Bruce Stevens is a successful young buyer for the CBB discount house in Reno and he cruises around the Western States in his '55 Mercury checking out likely deals. But when he meets Susan Faine...

Dans l’ombre des tours de Notre‑Dame, un mot gravé dans la pierre — Anankh — annonce la fatalité. Victor Hugo nous entraîne au cœur du Paris médiéval, où la cathédrale règne, monument vivant autour duquel se pressent foules, clercs et puissants, saltimbanques et miséreux. Entre tumulte des places et silence des chapelles, la pierre et la cloche répondent aux passions humaines.

Sous un ciel chauffé à blanc, où l’ombre prend des teintes de pervenche, Jean Aicard saisit un été de lumière et de poussière, de parfums d’immortelles et de voix villageoises. En tableaux brefs et sensibles, il fait renaître le potier voisin, le savetier, le maçon; la bastide et le village; la rudesse de l’azur et le rêve obstiné d’un peu d’ombre.

In “a wonderful, atmospheric mystery” featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson, six bodies of men killed during World War II turn up in Brighton—bringing with them a long-buried, nefarious secret (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Just back from maternity leave...

N’oublie jamais que tu n’as qu’une seule vie… Lou a promis à l’homme qu’elle aimait de vivre chaque jour comme si c’était le dernier. Mais sans lui, le monde paraît bien sombre et elle peine à tourner la page. Sa vie londonienne ne la rend pas heureuse : dans le bar...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life. He has a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with...

都内の幼稚園へ赴任してきた神尾舞子。騒音や待機児童など様々な問題への対応を迫られる中、園の生き物が何者かに惨殺される事件が立て続けに起き、やがて事態は最悪の方向へ──。『闘う君の唄を』に連なる、シリーズ第2弾。