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As you can tell from the publisher’s description, Perspective(s) is one of those novels meant to keep you on the edge of your seat – while offering an education in Renaissance painting and guided tour of some of the most breathtaking works of art ever created: As dawn breaks over the city of Florence on New Year’s Day […]

As the publisher notes, The Safekeep is a novel that makes us rethink the very idea of “home” – as well as the ways in which History with a capital H can shape the most intimate details of our lives: It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and […]

As the publisher notes, Disgrace is a novel that blurs the distinction between private and public life, as David Lurie’s narrative of “disgrace” becomes intertwined with broader sociopolitical issues in South Africa: At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by […]

The publisher’s description captures the haunting world and tension between personal life and political history at the center of this novel: The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a […]

It’s difficult to imagine a more anticipated and decorated book than Intermezzo, which was published in September 2024. The book has gone on to receive such accolades as Instant New York Times Bestseller, Finalist for the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year, and a Best Book of the Year selection by the Washington Post, Guardian, and many others. The intricate […]