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St. Petersburg StoriesAn intriguing, fabulously bizarre debut collection of short stories by prize-winning German writer Ingo Schulze, author of Simple Stories.These thirty-three macabre, often comical short pieces revolve around moments of odd blissmoments seized by characters who have found ways to conquer the bleakness of everyday life in the...

An Inspector Van Veeteren MysteryIt's a sweltering summer in Sweden and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is long overdue for a holiday when a secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation. One of its members, a girl on the cusp of adolescence, is found dead in the forest near their holiday camp, brutally raped and strangled; the...

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas&';A brave new book for a brave new worldfueled by a brilliant imagination and buoyed by beautifully descriptive writing.&'USA TodayA gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A...

East Coast transplants to small-town Oregon, Naomi and Scanlon Pratt are at the threshold of a new life. Scanlon has a position at the local universityteaching mass movements and domestic radicalismand Naomi, a fragrance designer whose sense of smell has inexplicably vanished, is pregnant with their first child.For Scanlon, all of this is ideal,...

We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his  Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face.  As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City  today, we enter the lives of those around him, and learn that he has also kept a  vital,...

Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyOften called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoys genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicleall of them fully realized and equally...