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As the publisher’s description suggests, Wise Blood is a reflection on religion that takes us into its haunting recesses — as it pushes uncomfortably against obsession and even perhaps madness: Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught […]

Martel’s name is likely familiar to many of you, especially because of his award-winning and best-selling novel Life of Pi, which was adapted into a film directed by Ang Lee. As the publisher’s description suggests, Son of Nobody is a work that moves fluidly between the past and present, history and legend, as it depicts a scholar’s quest […]

Biedermann was born in 2003 and has quickly become an international sensation, as Lázár has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. As we read in the publisher’s description, the novel evokes a bygone world of aristocratic lineage, set against a roiling historical backdrop of historical and cultural change: At the turn of the 20th century, the Lázárs […]

Choi’s novel has made many “best of the year” lists, including the 2025 Booker Prize Shortlist. It’s a sweeping generational saga that moves between the United States, Asia, and Europe, while exploring the cataclysmic political events that divided Korea in North and South. The publisher’s description highlights this intertwining of personal relations with broad historical forces: […]

Roth’s 1932 novel is a sumptuous recreation of the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Habsburg Monarchy on the cusp of World War I, as narrated through the generational saga of the Trottas, a prominent and aristocratic military family. As we read in the publisher’s description, a deep sense of nostalgia and historical rupture permeates […]