Vintage

A NovelOld friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart.They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they've taken since their youth. But this isn't just any reunion, and their conversations about the old days aren't your typical...

Prize-winning German writer Ingo Schulze's first novel, Simple Stories, is a marvel of storytelling and craft. Set in the East German town of Altenburg after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it deftly leaps among an array of confused characters caught in the crossroads of their countrys history: a lovelorn waitress who falls for a visiting West...

A NovelThe bestselling and beloved author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude delivers a searing love letter to the city that has inspired his finest work.Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in lifepermanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned to talk about his...

Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire, his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States.It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform...

A NovelIn a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core...

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul bite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing...