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Lori Baker The Glass Ocean
A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED WORK FROM FIRST-TIME NOVELIST LORI BAKER. The Glass Ocean is that rarest of things, a historical novel, or at least a novel set in history, that is also a work of art. Lori Baker is a captivating story-teller, and her prose has the flash and fire of molten glass. John Banville An adventure of dreamlike momentum and romantic intensity, brought alive by a storyteller with uncanny access to the Victorians, not only to the closelywoven texture of their days but also to the dangerous nocturnal fires being attended to in their hearts. Thomas Pynchon The Glass Ocean is breathtakingly good as though Jean Rhys had come back from the dead to outdo Wide Sargasso Sea. So completely satisfying (as well as satisfyingly disturbing) that at the end one doesnt wish it would go on forever because the ending itself is so beautifully right. Hat, shirt, and shoes off to a wizard of fiction.Harry Mathews The Glass Ocean is a rare accomplishment, its fictional world so delicately and vividly wrought that the narrative takes on the force of an emergent secret history. It is a haunting, beautiful novel, full of mysteries and illuminations.Joanna Scott

LORI BAKERs other books are Crash & Tell: Stories (Louisiana State University Press), Crazy Water: Six Fictions (New York University Press), winner of the Mamdouha H. Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and Scraps (Paradigm Press). She has taught fiction writing, journalism, and composition at Brown University, Boston College, and Wheaton College. US: Penguin Press (August 2013); UK: Virago Press; Italy: RCS Rizzoli !

! Nicholson Baker Travelling Sprinkler

A NEW NOVEL BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR NICHOLSON BAKER re-introduces feckless but hopeful hero Paul Chowder, whose struggle to get his life together is reflected in his steadfast desire to write a pop song, or a protest song, or both at once. Paul Chowder, the poet protagonist of Nicholson Bakers widely acclaimed novel The Anthologist, is turning fifty-five and missing his exgirlfriend, Roz, rather desperately. As he approaches the dreaded birthday, Paul is uninspired by his usual artistic outlet (although hes pleased that his poetry anthology, Only Rhyme, is selling steadily). Putting aside poetry in favor of music, and drawing on his classical bassoon training, Paul turns instead to his new acoustic guitar with one goal in mind: to learn songwriting. As he struggles to come to terms with the horror of Americas drone wars and Rozs new relationship with a local NPR radio host, Paul fills his days with Quaker meetings, Planet Fitness workouts, and some experiments with tobacco. Written in Bakers beautifully unconventional prose, and sprinkled with musical influences from Debussy to Tracy Chapman to Paul himself, Traveling Sprinkler is an enchanting, hilariousand very necessarynovel by one of the most beloved and influential writers today.

NICHOLSON BAKER is the author of nine novels and five works of nonfiction, including The Anthologist, Human Smoke, and Double Fold (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award). US: Blue Rider Press (September 2013) VOX was published in the following territories: Audio (U.S. and Canada): Audible; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; Catalonia: Columna; Czech Republic: Volvox Globator; Denmark: Tiderne Skifter; Finland: Tammi Publishers; France: Presses de la Cit; Germany: Rowohlt Verlag; Greece: Selus Publications; Israel: Modan Publishers; Holland: Atlas Publishers; Italy: Bompiani; Japan: Hakusui Sha; Korea: Open Books; Macedonia: Ars LAMINA Publications; Norway: Cappelens Forlag; Poland: Puls Publications; Portugal: Gradiva Publicacoes; Slovenia: Porin Publishing House; Spain: Santillana; Sweden: Wahlstrom and Widstrand; Taiwan: International Village Book Store; Turkey: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari; UK/British Commonwealth: Granta Books

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Jay Cantor Forgiving the Angel

A BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFUL GROUP OF STORIES based on a circle of real people held together by their love of Kafka, both while he was still alive and after he died, by one of our most thought-provoking and admired writers. The sequence opens with Max Brod, Kafkas friend and literary executor, who has emigrated to Israel, telling us about Kafka and his lover Dora Diamant, living together in Berlin. They are so much in love they are able to believe that the dreadful prognosis for his tuberculosisis will change, but when it doesnt, Kafka talks of forgiving the angel of death. In a sort of La Ronde, other stories tell of Doras marriage and daughter, her embrace of communism, move to Russia, and escape to England, leaving her husband behind in the gulag where he finds Milena Jesenska, another of Kafkas lovers, and they are eventually traded to the Germans and are sent to a concentration camp. By the end, these moving stories tell the whole calamitous story of European Jews in the Second World War, and we, too, need to find a way to forgive the angel.

JAY CANTOR is the author of three novels, The Death of Che Guevara, Krazy Kat, and Great Neck, and two books of essays, The Space Between and On Giving Birth to Ones Own Mother. Great Neck was listed as a New York Times Notable Book. US: Knopf (January 2014) !

! Lacy Crawford Early Decision

ITS THE SUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEAR, and parents all around the nation are scrambling to ensure their children have every advantage in the college application processincluding, for the wealthiest and most connected, hiring Anne, the college whisperer, whose students almost always end up at the best of the best. Working one-on-one with burned-out, helicopterparented kids, Anne can make Harvard a reality. Problem is, her method begins and ends with the college essayhelping a student write a personal statement that is confident and real. And to do this, she has to help her students to tell the truth, something in a world of cheating scandals and big alumni donations that they havent been encouraged to do. Working with their essays, she moves them toward self-awareness and anger at the system that is making them, their parents, and their peers so crazy. The parents want them to get in. But the kids just want to get out. The inevitable conflict that results leads to the coming-of-age moment for each of five high school seniorsfour of them wealthy and one, a poorer student, whose fate is inextricably tied to her wealthier peersand who in turn help their counselor, Anne, realize what her own life may have in store. Full of hilarious and heartbreaking student essays, moving from first to final draft and including insight into a wide range of concerns for the college applicant, Early Decision is an explosive insiders guide to college admissions in our day. Its also a sharp commentary on modern parenting and a riposte to the tiger mothers and obsessive parents who help feed the frenzy. The truth is, the kids are all right. Their essays are fabulous. But the system is broken. With humor and hard-earned wisdom, Early Decision illuminates the madness of the contemporary college race.

For fourteen yeas, LACY CRAWFORD was a sought after and highly discreet independent college admissions counselor to the children of high-powered clients in cities including New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and London. Her day jobs included working as a writer and editor (for Narrative Magazine and elsewhere) and serving in senior roles with nonprofits such as the Burberry Foundation while she traveled around the world to help her students write their best essays, plan their applications, and take control of their lives. World English: HarperCollins (September 2013); Russia: AST License

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Percival Everett Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

A STORY INSIDE A STORY INSIDE A STORY. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write? Lets simplify: a woman seeks an apprenticeship with a painter, claiming to be his long-lost daughter. A contractor-for-hire named Murphy cant distinguish between the two brothers who employ him. And in Murphys troubled dreams, Nat Turner imagines the life of William Styron. These narratives twist together with anecdotes from the nursing home, each building on the other until they crest in a wild, outlandish excursion of the inmates led by the father. Anchoring these shifting plotlines is a running commentary between father and son that sheds doubt on the truthfulness of each story. Because, after all, what narrator can we ever trust? Not only is Percival Everett by Virgil Russell a powerful, compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an ingenious culmination of Everetts recurring preoccupations. All of his prior work, his metaphysical and philosophical inquiries, his investigations into the nature of narrative, have led to this masterful book. Percival Everett has never been more cunning, more brilliant and subversive, than he is in this, his most important and elusive novel to date.

PERCIVAL EVERETT is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of more than twenty books, including Assumption, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, The Water Cure , Wounded, and Glyph ; three collections of short fiction; and one book of poetry. He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the 2006 PEN USA Center Award for Fiction. World English: Graywolf Press (February 2013); France: Actes Sud; Spain: Blackie Books

Lorrie Moore Bark

A LITERARY CELEBRATIONa new collection of stories by one of Americas most beloved and admired short story writers; her first collection in fifteen years since Birds of AmericaThe New York Times Book Review In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, at her most mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In Debarking, a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we seein all its irresistible hilarity and darknessthe perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake. In Foes, a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of

9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fundraising dinner in Georgetown. In The Juniper Tree, a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing The Star Spangled Banner in a kind of nightmare reunion. And in Wings, we watch the inevitable unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians who neither held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of deadends-ville and the workings of regret. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives in a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and laugh-out-loudthe hallmark of life in Lorrie-Moore-land.

LORRIE MOORE is the author of the story collections Birds of America, Like Life, and Self-Help and the novels A Gate at the Stairs , Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? , and Anagrams. Her work has won honors from the Lannan Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the PEN/Malamud Award. US: Knopf (March 2014); UK: Faber and Faber

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Howard Norman
Next Life Will Be Kinder
Two of HOWARD NORMANs novels, The Northern Lights (1987) and The Bird Artist (1994), have been nominated for the National Book Award. His other novels include Devotion and What is Left the Daughter . Norman is the recipient of a Lannan Award in fiction. US: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (July 2014)

Susan Nussbaum
Good Kings, Bad Kings
THIS POWERFUL AND INSPIRING DEBUT is the 2012 winner of Barbara Kingsolvers PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Told in alternating perspectives by a varied and vocal cast of characters, Nussbaum pulls back the curtain to reveal the complicated and punishing life inside the walls of an institution for juveniles with disabilities. From Yessenia Lopez, who dreams of her next boyfriend and of one day living outside those walls, to Teddy, who dresses up daily in a full suit and tie, to Mia, who guards a terrifying secret, to Joanne, the new dataentry clerk who suddenly finds herself worrying about her own complicity in an ugly system, Nussbaum has crafted a multifaceted portrait of a way of life hidden from most of us. In this isolated human warehouse on Chicagos South Side, friendships are forged, trust is built, love affairs are kindled, and resistance begins. A novel that challenges our definitions of what it means to be disabled, Good Kings Bad Kings tells this story with both humor and authenticity in voices that stay with you long past the last page. You may never read a novel this strikingly original and moving again.

Playwright SUSAN NUSSBAUMs works have been produced at many theaters. In 2008 she was cited by the Utne Reader as one of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World for her work with girls with disabilities. This is her first novel. World and Audio: Algonquin Books (May 2013)

Richard Powers
Orfeo
SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD AVANT-GARDE COMPOSER Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home DIY microbiology labthe latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ears ability to hearhas come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid on his house, Els flees. He turns fugitive, waiting for the evidence to clear him and for the alarm surrounding his activities to blow over. His days in hiding provoke memories of a turbulent century of musical turf wars and cause Els to reflect on a life spent chasing after transcendent sounds to the bewilderment of an indifferent public. As the national hysteria for safety erupts again in the face of this latest threatthe Bioterrorist Bach Els, feeling the noose around him tighten, embarks on a cross-country trip to visit, one last time, the people in his past who have most shaped his failed musical journey. And through the help of these peoplehis exwife, his daughter, and his longtime artistic collaboratorEls comes up with a plan to turn this disastrous collision with the security state into one last, resonant, calamitous artwork that might reach an audience beyond his wildest dreams. Inspired by the real-life account of Steve Kurtz, the bioartist wrongly arrested for terrorism by the FBI and prosecuted by the American government for four years, Orfeo probes the boundary between stifling safety and reckless, releasing danger. It surveys a century of unsettling musical innovationthe relentless revolution that may finally have done itself in. It explores the varieties of human hunger, in particular the desire to hear more and to make meaning where there is none. Finally, the book is a meditation on that most endangered and priceless of human capabilities: attention.

RICHARD POWERS is the author of ten novels. The Echo Maker won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. US: W. W. Norton (January 2014); UK: Atlantic Books; France: Le Cherche Midi; Germany: Fischer Verlag; Holland: Atlas Contact

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Thomas Pynchon Bleeding Edge

IT IS 2001 IN NEW YORK CITY, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but theres no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of whats left. Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into peoples bank accountswithout having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average working momtwo boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighborhoodtill Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things

begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitlers aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course. With occasional excursions into the Deep Web and out to Long Island, TP, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of the internet, not that distant in calendar time but galactically remote from where weve journeyed to since. Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will she and Horst get back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance? Hey. Who wants to know?

THOMAS PYNCHON is the author of V, The Crying of Lot 49, Gravitys Rainbow, Slow Learner, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, and Inherent Vice. Rights so far ! US: Penguin Press (September 2013); Italy: Einaudi

Russ Rymer Paris Twilight

A DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF GENIE: A SCIENTIFIC TRAGEDY. Its no news to admirers of Russ Rymer that he is a writer of exceptional grace and gifts, but in Paris Twilight, his richly plotted, ardently imagined first novel, he reveals a new and soaring talent. Haunted by wars distant and contemporary, his unforgettable characters grapple with the mystery of what love means, and what it costs. Geraldine Brooks, author of People of the Book and Calebs Crossing Russ Rymer is a virtuoso of mystery and misapprehension. With Paris Twilight, he has created a novel of fine intelligence that richly rewards the readers closest attention. An American original. Ward Just, author of An Unfinished Season and Exiles in the Garden RUSS RYMER has contributed articles to major magazines and newspapers, including The New Yorker, National Geographic, Harpers, Atlantic, Smithsonian, Vogue, Los Angeles Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and The Strad. He has written two books. Genie: A Scientific Tragedy (HarperCollins, 1993) was translated into six languages and transformed into a NOVA television documentary, received a 1995 Whiting Writers Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory (HarperCollins, 1998) was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award for Researched Non-fiction and named a New York Times Notable Book. US: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (June 2013)

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Ania Szado Studio Saint-Ex

A ravishing glimpse into the early days of American haute couture and into the private life of one of the 20th Centurys most notorious authors. Ania Szados writing is nothing less than sublime.Alison Pick, author of Man Booker Prize long-listed novel Far to Go Ania Szado has written a novel that is so true and so right that it makes you wonder why nobody has written it before. Studio Saint-Ex is like an ocean

undertow; I fell in and could not get out except by gorging on the story as it pulled me toward the final sentence. Studio Saint-Ex is an unputdownable novel about twentieth century fashion, French expatriates in Manhattan during World War II, the miracle of creative genius, and the lives of the great writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery and the women he loved. Open the first page and prepare to fall. Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of Book of Negroes

ANIA SZADO graduated from the Ontario College of Art and the University of British Columbia. Her first novel, Beginning of Was, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her writing has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Globe and Mail, Flare, and This Magazine. US: Knopf (June 2013); Canada: Penguin Group (April 2013); Italy: Bompiani; Poland: Marginesy; Russia: ASTRELease Holdings

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Non-Fiction
Jennifer Ackerman
Bird Brain: The Intelligent Life of Birds
THIS BOOK WILL EXPLORE the new view of birds as sophisticated thinkers, cunning, playful, witty, greedy, cranky, joyful, competitive. It will look at intelligent bird behavior right before our eyes, easily observed in our own surroundings, and bring to it the latest science from lab and field. In a compelling natural narrative with a subtle seasonal flow, it will trace the life cycle of a bird from brainy hatchling born in spring to wizened old bird in winter, probing smart behavior from chick to fledgling to juvenile (with frequent play and delinquency), from young adulthood to sexual maturity to old agelearning to call and sing, playing, feeding, making and using tools, exercising extraordinary memory feats, navigating, migrating, courting, mating, and (for the very successful) growing old. Do birds get smarter over time? Why are some species more eggheaded than others? Why do urban birds have bigger brains? And what does bird intelligence have to say about our own? Written in a lyrical and highly informative style in the spirit of Peter Matthiessenwith lighthearted and entertaining descriptions of birds, their behavior, and their worldthis book will be packed with interesting new science that will appeal to a broad range of readers, including sophisticated bird lovers, nature enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the brain, behavior, or the nature of intelligence.

JENNIFER ACKERMAN is an award-winning writer who has written about science and nature for the past 25 years. She is the author of six books, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, National Geographic, Natural History, Nature Conservancy, the National Geographic Great Migrations films, and many other publications and venues. Ackermans honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction, a year-long fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and fellowships from the Tisch College of Tufts University, Brown College of the University of Virginia, and the Delaware State Arts Council.

US: Penguin Press (Summer 2014); UK: Constable & Robinson; Australia: Scribe

David Finkel
Thank You For Your Service
NO JOURNALIST HAS RECKONED WITH THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel shadowed the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous surge, a grueling fifteen-month tour that changed all of them forever. Now Finkel has followed many of those same men as theyve returned home and struggled to reintegrateboth into their family lives and into American society at large. In the ironically named Thank You for Your Service, Finkel writes with tremendous compassion not just about the soldiers but about their wives and children. Where do soldiers belong after their homecoming? Is it possible, or even reasonable, to expect them to rejoin their communities as if nothing has happened? And in moments of hardship, who are soldiers expected to turn to if they feel alienated by the world they once lived in? These are the questions Finkel faces as he revisits the brave but shaken men of the 216. More than a work of journalism, Thank You for Your Service is an act of understandingshocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane, it takes us inside the heads of those who must live the rest of their lives with the devastating realities of war.

DAVID FINKEL is the National Enterprise Editor of the Washington Post. He was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his series of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts in Yemen. World and Audio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (September 2013); Australia: Scribe; Film Rights: Steven Spielberg/DreamWorks Studios David Finkels previous work, The Good Soldiers, was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Slate.com, The Boston Globe, The Kansas City Star, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), The Christian Science Monitor. The Good Soldiers won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the 2010 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. The New York Times Book Review said of The Good Soldiers, Finkel has made art out of a defining moment in history

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James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani

Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jungs Red Book
WITH JUNGS RED BOOK AS THEIR POINT OF DEPARTURE, two leading scholars explore issues relevant to our thinking today. In this book of dialogues, James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani reassess psychology, history, and creativity through the lens of Carl Jungs Red Book. Hillman, the founder of Archetypal Psychology, was one of the most prominent psychologists in America and is widely acknowledged as the most original figure to emerge from Jungs school. Shamdasani, editor and cotranslator of Jungs Red Book, is regarded as the leading Jung historian. Hillman and Shamdasani explore a number of the issues in the Red Booksuch as our relation with the dead, the figures of our dreams and fantasies, the nature of creative expression, the relation of psychology to art, narrative and storytelling, the significance of depth psychology as a cultural form, the legacy of Christianity, and our relation to the pastand examine the implications these have for our thinking today.

JAMES HILLMAN (19262011) was the author of many influential books including The Souls Code: In Search of Character and Calling . SONU SHAMDASANI is a preeminent Jung historian at University College London and the author of C. G. Jung: A Biography in Books. US: W. W. Norton (August 2013) THE RED BOOK was published in the following territories: Germany: Verlagsgruppe Patmos (Lektorat Psychologie); Italy: Bollati Boringhieri; Spanish: El Hilo de Ariadna via MALBA Art Museum; France: LIconoclaste; Japan: Sogensha; Brazil: Editora Vozes; Czech Republic: Portal; Romania: Editura Trei

Gish Jen Tiger Writing

The William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University
FOR AUTHOR GISH JEN, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound difference in self-narration that underlies the gap often perceived between East and West. Drawing on a rich array of sourcesfrom paintings to behavioral studies to her fathers striking account of his childhood in Chinathis accessible book not only illuminates Jens own development and celebrated work but also explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent selfeach mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. The novel, Jen writes, is fundamentally a Western form that values originality, authenticity, and the truth of individual experience. By contrast, Eastern narrative emphasizes morality, cultural continuity, the everyday, the recurrent. In its progress from a moving evocation of one writers life to a convincing delineation of the forces that have shaped our experience for millennia, Tiger Writing radically shifts the way we understand ourselves and our art-making.

GISH JEN is the author of four novels, including Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land . Her most recent novel is World and Town . US: Harvard University Press (March 2013)

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Howard Norman I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place

A LYRICAL AND UNIQUE MEMOIR, from one of our finest writers, proving that life can be as strange as fiction. Howard Normans life has been framed by five incidents of arresting strangeness, each given its chapterand each chapter yielding clues to the improbable trajectory of a fascinating life. A brother on the lam, the sighting of a confederate ghost during high fever, a therapists flat tirethe events of Howard Normans superb memoir are both on the edge of chaos and gathered superbly into coherent meaning. He catches, as indelibly as Frank Conroy in Stop Time, the craziness of youth: It was about this time I started writing letters to other peoples fathers. And then, in the culminating chapter, Norman stuns us with his telling of the heartbreaking event that invades his home and life. A wise, riskily written, beautiful book. Michael Ondaatje

Two of HOWARD NORMANs novels, The Northern Lights (1987) and The Bird Artist (1994), have been nominated for the National Book Award. His other novels include Devotion and What is Left the Daughter . Norman is the recipient of a Lannan Award in fiction. US: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (July 2013)

Maggie Scarf The Remarriage Blueprint: How Remarried Couples and Their Families Succeed or Fail
A NEW RELATIONSHIP EXPERT YORK TIMES BESTSELLING shares in-depth stories of seven remarried couplesrevealing the unique challenges they face as they strive to achieve lasting intimacy and familial harmony. Its estimated that forty percent of new marriages in the US are remarriages, but the survival rate of second marriages is alarmingly low. Many remarrying couples set out with a sense of optimism, a belief that this marriage will usher in a life of happiness and family unity. But complicated family dynamics can often strain new partnerships to the breaking point. The challenges of remarriage are pervasive, but little guidance has existed until now. Based on more than a decade of candid, revelatory interviews, The Remarriage Blueprint provides a crucial framework for the obstacles to re-marriage and the secrets to overcoming them. Author Maggie Scarf, a consummate relationship expert, plumbs the everyday workings of shared life to illuminate the emotional preconceptions, social pressures, and perpetuated fantasies that confound re-marriage. Through cautionary tales and stories of hope, Scarf offers guidance for handling everything from children who reject the new family dynamic to the thorny issue of money. Loaded with practical wisdom and searing accounts, The Remarriage Blueprint is a definitive roadmap to a happy, thriving, integrated household.

MAGGIE SCARF is a visiting fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, and a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University. She is the author of two books for children and six books for adults, including the New York Times bestselling Intimate Partners . She has made many television appearances (among them The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today show, Good Morning America, CBS News, and CNN). She has also been featured in many newspapers and magazines, including People magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and others. World and Audio: Scribner (September 2013)

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Wole Soyinka Of Africa

A NOBEL LAUREATE offers a keen, thoughtprovoking analysis of Africas current crises and points the way to cultural and political renewal. A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing problems of Africa, and, an irrepressible essayist and a staunch critic of the oppressive boot, he unhesitatingly speaks out. In this magnificent new work, Soyinka offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africas culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity. He seeks to understand how the continents history is entwined with the histories of others, while exploring Africas truest

assets: "its humanity, the quality and valuation of its own existence, and modes of managing its environment both physical and intangible (which includes the spiritual). Fully grasping the extent of Africas most challenging issues, Soyinka nevertheless refuses defeatism. With eloquence he analyzes problems ranging from the meaning of the past to the threat of theocracy. He asks hard questions about racial attitudes, interethnic and religious violence, the viability of nations whose boundaries were laid out by outsiders, African identity on the continent and among displaced Africans, and more. Soyinkas exploration of Africa relocates the continent in the readers imagination and maps a course toward an African future of peace and affirmation.

WOLE SOYINKA, the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a Nigerian writer, poet, and playwright. He is the author of more than twenty plays and ten volumes of poetry. For his implacable resistance to political tyranny he has been imprisoned, threatened with assassination, and at times forced to live in exile. US: Yale University Press (November 2012); Korea: Samcheolli Publishing Company; Italy: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

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