Jamesland

Author	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
ISBN	1582430152

Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a...

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Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Un hombre inocente es buscado por la policía. Decide ocultarse con su amante en un lugar apartado mientras pasa el peligro. Pero no tiene dinero. Para conseguirlo viaja a una ciudad de provincia y llega a la casa de un tío suyo, que es el hombre más rico de la región. En los días que siguen, el perseguido,...

Author	Sharman Apt Russell
ISBN	0465071600

Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary...

Author	Gish Jen
ISBN	0307272192

From the much-loved author of Who’s Irish? and The Love Wife, a world-sized novel set in a small New England town.

Hattie Kong—the spirited offspring of a descendant of Confucius and an American missionary to China—has, in her fiftieth year of living in the United States, lost both her...

Author	Ian R. MacLeod
ISBN	1906301212

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award: A future world of unrelenting change, strangeness, and uncertainty, experienced through the passions and memories of one remarkable old woman

Roushana Maitland has known great fame and great sorrow throughout...

Author	Eva Ibbotson
ISBN	0099226014

Susanna Weber is renowned for producing the most elegant, exquisite couture in Vienna. As all of fashionable society passes through her fitting room, Susanna touches numerous lives as matchmaker, comforter, confidante...and passionate lover.

From the improverished yet proud Countess...

Author	John Gardner
ISBN	0811216373

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light, a complex relationship rendered in a down-to-earth narrative.

October Light is one of John Gardner's masterworks. The penniless widow of a once-wealthy...

Author	Diane Johnson
ISBN	0452279453

Lying Low is about this random group of people that rent a house. You've got the owner of the house, this judgemental old ballet teacher. There's her photographer brother Anton, whose had several broken marriages, and now has a weird crush on Lynn. Lynn is really Marybeth who committed a crime long ago...