The Transit of Venus
10 best books like The Transit of Venus (Shirley Hazzard): Lost Children Archive, Disappearing Earth, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Quichotte, Offshore, Lanny, Kudos, The Friend, The Wedding, Evening in Paradise: More Stories
| Author | Valeria Luiselli |
| ISBN | 0525520619 |
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
A...
For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative, moving, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.
One August afternoon, on the...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
| Author | Ocean Vuong |
| ISBN | 0525562028 |
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's...
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
| Author | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0006542565 |
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river’s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is...
| Author | Max Porter |
| ISBN | 0571340288 |
There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and...
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 1473524334 |
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.
A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface...
| Author | Sigrid Nunez |
| ISBN | 0735219451 |
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.
When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute...
| Author | Dorothy West |
| ISBN | 0385471440 |
An Oprah Winfrey Presents Mini-Series on ABC Network Television Starring Halle Berry
In her last novel, Dorothy West, an iconic member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells...
Evening in Paradise: More Stories
| Author | Lucia Berlin |
| ISBN | 0374279489 |
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.
In 2015, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller;...
Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final...
The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya
| Author | Frances Osborne |
| ISBN | 1844084817 |
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off...
| Author | Vicki Laveau-Harvie |
| ISBN | 0648100855 |
When her elderly mother is hospitalised after an accident, Vicki is summoned to her parents' isolated and run-down ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to care for her father. She has been estranged from her parents for many years (the reasons for which become quickly clear) and is horrified by what she discovers...
