Vintage Books

From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection "House of Sand and Fog" comes a new painful, page-turning novel that seizes the reader by the throat....

As occasion to celebrate, when Desmond andnbsp;nbsp;Deirdre Doyle must gather family and friends around themnbsp;nbsp;in remembrance of the twenty-five years ofnbsp;nbsp;marriage they've shared. A moment of reckoning as annbsp;nbsp;uneasy couple is forced to face a hapless daughternbsp;nbsp;still struggling to become a nun... a son who...

In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda--once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro--and chaos. Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining...

Nine is a brilliant novel from one of Europe's finest writers. It tells of a post-communist generation of young Poles among whom the strictures of the old collide daily with the freedom of the new, adrift in moral space and disconnected from family, neighbours, and friends. It is the story of Pawel, a young businessman, in debt to loan sharks,...

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is...

'Once upon a time.' Once upon a time there was a book, and inside the book were princes who had been turned into frogs or ferocious beasts, princesses so beautiful they astonished the sun, faithful sweethearts and evil stepmothers, giants taller than mountains and a boy no bigger than your thumb, houses made of bread and cake and birds made of gold...