A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her hu
An intensely personal novel about childhood, memory, and history by one of today's most celebrated authors, now available in the US for the first time.Amit Chaudhuri has long blurred the boundaries be
The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on his mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last r
The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on Amit's mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's las
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. "[Friend of My
Vicky, a Hampstead bookshop owner, is a heavyweight. She suffers good-humouredly the slings and arrows of her two lodgers: James, a shy Scottish youth who longs to be a writer, and Henry, a not-so-you
In Victorian England, Dr. Courtine is invited to spend the days before Christmas with Austin, a friend from his youth, in the Cathedral Close of Thurchester. Courtine hopes to research an unsolved my