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When the tragic death of his son compels Dr. Neil Downs to flee New York City for India, he takes a job as the resident physician at the American Embassy, where he is introduced to the paradoxes of Indian social and political life. Unable to mourn, and angry about a betrayal on the part of his wife, Sarah, Neil seeks...

Before Sex and the City there was Bridget Jones. And before Bridget Jones was The Artificial Silk Girl. In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became...

Gustav Rubin, a fur dealer in Vienna, flies to New York to spend the summer with his wife and two young children in a lake house north of the city. When he arrives late at JFK, he is met by his opinionated, unrelenting mother, Rosa. They rent a car and set out for Lake Gilead. But Gustav loses his way, and son and mother end up on the wrong...

In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest human emotions.A family matriarchhalf Medea, half Clytemnestracalls home her three children, who take turns narrating the story. Quinn, the wonder boy who has become a successful...

"e;One of the four best Hollywood novels ever written."e; Elizabeth Frank, New York Times Book Review  "e;Epstein is a master storyteller at the height of his powers."e; Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review  "e;Mr. Epstein effortlessly captures the magic of a Hollywood childhood . . . San Remo Drive...

From Argentina to Italy, the intense, metaphysical and poetic story of a gardener in love, by Italy's most prominent writer.  "e;A man's life lasts as long as three horses. You have already buried the first."e;  Somewhere along the coastline of Italy, a man passes his days in solitude and silence, tending a...