Nathan EnglanderFrom its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, Nathan Englander's debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In...

Shlomo DunourAdiel is a re-telling of the Old Testament story of the Bible, from the Creation of Adam and Eve through the ten generations that culminates with Noah and the...

Allen Hoffman   The first volume in Allen Hoffman's critically acclaimed series Small Worlds takes place in 1903 and introduces the wondrous rebbe of Krimsk—a small Hasidic settlement in Eastern...

Author: Arthur Miller "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote of...

Janet FrameSet in provincial, pre-1940s New Zealand, Owls Do Cry explores the Withers family, in particular Daphne Withers. When one of Daphne's sisters dies, a crisis is provoked that leads...

Jenny ErpenbeckFrom one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is...

SophoclesThis volume contains four plays by Sophocles (496-496 B.C.), was the first to give ancient Greek drama I structure recognizably related to its modern descendants. In Electra he objectively presents...

Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThere has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature - Stuart Hood in the ListenerSolzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character...

Nikos KazantzakisThe Fratricides by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis recounts the tragic violence that swallowed the Greek countryside in the civil war of the late 1940s. Castello, a village in...

VS Naipaul   Half a Life finds the veteran Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on familiar territory, blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the "half lives"...

Kazuo IshiguroDuring the summer of 1956, Stevens, the aging butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely motoring holiday that will take him deep into the heart of the English...

Knut HamsunIn a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel...