Vintage

In his first novel since Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernires creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write...

A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2011Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls...

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and...

StoriesWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZEIN LITERATURE 2013ANew York TimesNotable BookAWashington PostNotable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year:The Atlantic,NPR,San Francisco Chronicle,Vogue, AV ClubIn story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not...

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror storycentered on the birth of a baby who seems less than humanprobes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime...

Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being and a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights, A. S. Byatt writes some of the most engaging and skillful novels of our time. Time magazine calls her a novelist of...