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As you can tell from the publisher’s description, What We Can Know is a highly ambitious work that blends narrative perspectives and historical eras into a single story that explores the nature of what we can – and cannot – know about the past: 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors […]

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 […]