Vintage

A stunning debut novelits power and prose evocative of such diverse writers as Faulkner, Ondaatje, Nabokov, and Coetzeeabout a young African's international odyssey of self-discovery. Kwasi Edward Michael DankwaEddie Signwriter to his clientsis a twenty-year-old painter of murals and billboards in the city of Accra, Ghana, who is buffeted by...

A Novel&';Alice Adams writes with beautiful economy, an infallible sense of the telling detailshe can reveal more in a few sentences than most writers do in a bulgingly over-fed chapter.&' --San Francisco Chronicle Once again, Alice Adams demonstrates her mastery of the family maze, her astonishing perception of the delicate and complex threads...

Private detective Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner to solve an eight-year old rape and battery case long gone cold. But when the partner turns up dead, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived: a television reporter whose relationship with Kelly is not...

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive sharply upward the size of his readership (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old...

A Hap and Leonard Novel (6)Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his seven-foot strong-arm, a octogenarian knife-touting fisherman, and, somehow, an armadillo.When Hap Collins saves the life of his employer's daughter, he is rewarded with a Caribbean Cruise, and...

StoriesIn this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife...