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Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job - but when she arrives she discovers that the job doesn't exist. Gary is a country boy turned pop star who is spinning out of control. Justin is in Shanghai to expand his family's real estate empire, only to find that he might not be up to the task. He has long harbored a crush on Yinghui, a poetry-loving, left-wing activist who has reinvented herself as a successful Shanghai businesswoman. Yinghui is about to make a deal with the shadowy Walter Chao, the five star billionaire of the novel, who with his secrets and his schemes has a hand in the lives of each of the characters. All bring their dreams and hopes to Shanghai, the shining symbol of the New China, which, like the novel's characters, is constantly in flux and which plays its own fateful role in the lives of its inhabitants.
We need new names. NoViolet Bulawayo.
Darling
is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent
world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the
baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before.
Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the
school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad.
But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her--from Zadie Smith to Monica Ali to J.M. Coetzee--while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. - See more at: http://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noviolet-bulawayo/we-need-new-names/9780316230810/#desc
But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her--from Zadie Smith to Monica Ali to J.M. Coetzee--while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. - See more at: http://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noviolet-bulawayo/we-need-new-names/9780316230810/#desc
Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few.
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New
Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of
twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved
crimes.
A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
Harvest. Jim Crace.
As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a
village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders – two men and a
dangerously magnetic woman – arrives on the woodland borders and puts up
a make-shift camp. That same night, the local manor house is set on
fire.
Over the course of seven days, Walter Thirsk sees his hamlet unmade:
the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, the new arrivals cruelly
punished, and his neighbours held captive on suspicion of witchcraft.
But something even darker is at the heart of his story, and he will be
the only man left to tell it . . .
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman. Eve Harris
19 year-old Chani lives in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of North West London. She has never had physical contact with a man, but is bound to marry a stranger. The rabbi’s wife teaches her what it means to be a Jewish wife, but Rivka has her own questions to answer. Soon buried secrets, fear and sexual desire bubble to the surface in a story of liberation and choice; not to mention what happens on the wedding night…The Kills. Richard House.
Camp Liberty is an unmanned staging-post in Amrah province, Iraq; the
place where the detritus of the war is buried, incinerated, removed from
memory. Until, suddenly, plans are announced to transform it into the
largest military base in the country, codenamed the Massive, with a
post-war strategy to convert the site for civilian use.
Contracted by HOSCO, the insidious company responsible for overseeing
the Massive, Rem Gunnerson finds himself unwittingly commanding a
disparate group of economic mercenaries at Camp Liberty when the
mysterious Stephen Lawrence Sutler arrives. As the men are played
against each other by HOSCO the situation grows increasingly tense. And
then everything changes. An explosion. An attack on a regional
government office. When the dust settles it emerges that Sutler has
disappeared, and over fifty million dollars of reconstruction funds are
missing.
The Lowland Jhumpa Lahir
The Lowland. Jhumpa Lahiri. From Subhash’s earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother’s sight.
As the two brothers grow older their lives, once so united, begin to
diverge. It is 1967. Charismatic and impulsive, Udayan becomes
increasingly drawn to the Communist movement sweeping West Bengal, the
Naxalite cause. As revolution seizes the city’s student community and
exams are boycotted in a shadow of Paris and Berkeley, their home is
dominated by the absence of Udayan, out on the streets at
demonstrations. Subhash wins a place on a PhD programme in the United
States and moves to Rhode Island, never to live in India again – yet his
life will be shaped from afar by his brother’s acts of passionate
political idealism.
May 1940, Brighton. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and
their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected
enemy landing on their beaches.
It is a year of tension and change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of
the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, while Philip is gripped
by the rumour that Hitler will make Brighton's Royal Pavilion his
English HQ. As the rumours continue to fly and the days tick on, Evelyn
struggles to fall in with the war effort and the constraints of her role
in life, and her thoughts become tinged with a mounting, indefinable
desperation.
Then she meets Otto Gottlieb, a 'degenerate' German-Jewish painter and
prisoner in her husband's internment camp. As Europe crumbles, Evelyn's
and Otto's mutual distrust slowly begins to change into something else,
which will shatter the structures on which her life, her family and her
community rest. Love collides with fear, the power of art with the forces
of war, and the lives of Evelyn, Otto and Geoffrey are changed
irrevocably.
1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the mail being carried on the aircraft is a letter which will not be opened for almost one hundred years.
1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached?
1845. Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. On his travels he inspires a young maid to travel to New York to embrace a free world, but the land does not always fulfill its promises for her. From the violent battlefields of the Civil War to the ice lakes of northern Missouri, it is her youngest daughter Emily who eventually finds her way back to Ireland.
Almost English. Charlotte Mendelson.
Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there. In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange traditions and stranger foods, she knows she must escape. But the place she runs to makes her feel even more of an outsider.
At Combe Abbey, a traditional English public school for which her family have sacrificed everything, she realises she has made a terrible mistake. She is the awkward half-foreign girl who doesn't know how to fit in, flirt or even be. And as a semi-Hungarian Londoner, who is she? (to be published 1/9/13)
A tale for the time being. Ruth Ozeki.
Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. Eventually, she thinks, it will find its reader.
Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore. It contains a diary...
'This is the simple story of a girl, her great-grandmother and the novelist who becomes enthralled with their tale. But this simple story draws from the deep currents of our times, from quantum physics, Japanese ghost tales, suicide trends, first-person accounts of kamikaze fighters during World War II, thirteenth-century Buddhist texts and recent pop culture. It is a meditation on impermanence, and the intimate relationship between past and present, fact and fiction, and time and text.' RuthOzeki
My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every day to see is he dead and every day he lets me down. He hasn't yet missed a day of letting me down. In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds.
The testament of Mary. Colm Toibin.
Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Toibin's portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity.In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel--her keepers, who provide her with food and shelter and visit her regularly. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was worth it; nor that the group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye, were holy disciples. Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the Cross until her son died--she fled, to save herself), and is equally harsh on her judgment of others.
Darling
is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent
world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the
baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before.
Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the
school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad.
But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her--from Zadie Smith to Monica Ali to J.M. Coetzee--while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. - See more at: http://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noviolet-bulawayo/we-need-new-names/9780316230810/#desc
But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her--from Zadie Smith to Monica Ali to J.M. Coetzee--while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. - See more at: http://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noviolet-bulawayo/we-need-new-names/9780316230810/#desc
Darling
is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent
world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the
baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before.
Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the
school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad.
But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her--from Zadie Smith to Monica Ali to J.M. Coetzee--while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. - See more at: http://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noviolet-bulawayo/we-need-new-names/9780316230810/#desc
But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her--from Zadie Smith to Monica Ali to J.M. Coetzee--while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. - See more at: http://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noviolet-bulawayo/we-need-new-names/9780316230810/#desc
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