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Granny Was a Buffer Girl
Berlie Doherty
Granny Was a Buffer Girl follows a family gathering that opens into interwoven stories across generations.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
At the end of the Second World War, four people shelter in a damaged villa in northern Italy and tell fragments of memory, love, and betrayal around the badly burned English patient. The novel is steeped in the silence of war’s end and in the way the past keeps seeping into the present.
Carcanet Pr
Fire Stations
A. B. Jackson
Awarded the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2003 One of ten poets chosen for Anvil New Poets 3' (2001), A.B. Jackson was singled out by John Greening in Poetry Review' for his 'demanding and ambitious work: direct, sharp in manner, with an intellectual edge, a valedictory quality.' Fire Stations' is his first collection. Born in Glasgow in 1965, Andrew Buchanan Jackson grew up in Bramhall, Cheshire, later receiving his secondary education in Cupar, Fife. He studied English Literature at Edinburgh University and now works in Glasgow.
NYRB Classics
Boredom (New York Review Books Classics)
Alberto Moravia, William Weaver, Angus Davidson
Moravia's novel is read as a psychological drama in which the young painter Dino is caught between boredom, class consciousness, and desire. Wealth and sexual relationships fail to fill the void, and the widening gap between self and reality is traced with sharp precision.
NYRB Classics
The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy)
J.G. Farrell, Pankaj Mishra
Set against the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the novel follows the tightening siege of the British settlement of Krishnapur with irony and dark humour. It becomes a group portrait of imperial confidence gradually collapsing under hunger, disease, and fear.
Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Naked in the Promised Land
Lillian Faderman
This memoir follows the author from an immigrant childhood through poverty, show-business dreams, and precarious young adulthood to the academic life in which she found her voice. Family history, sexual identity, class, and Jewish-American experience intersect here, turning one life story into a wider portrait of twentieth-century America.
集英社
帝国アメリカと日本 武力依存の構造
チャルマーズ・ジョンソン
Johnson examines the blowback created by U.S. military and foreign-policy interventions, linking American empire to Japan-U.S. dependence.
Createspace Independent Pub
The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second -Generation Mexican - American
David P. Diaz D
A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Passage of Arms: A Suspense Thriller (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Eric Ambler
In this classic thriller, two American tourists find more adventure than they bargained for when they get involved with Chinese gun smugglers and Muslim revolutionaries, learning first hand about the intrigue of the post-colonial world. Greg and Dorothy Nilsen had wanted to go on an adventurous trip, see some of the more out-of-the-way places. But the cruise they were on was turning out to be a bore. So when the gracious Mr. Tan requests that Greg take a side trip to Singapore to resolve a bureaucratic detail involving a consignment of small arms, Greg is surprisingly receptive. All he has to do is sign some papers, he’s told, and he’ll be paid a handsome fee. And everything does go smoothly, until it comes to getting a check co-signed by the rebel leader…
Kessinger Pub Co
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories Of 1920
Various
A young generation's sharp cynicism meets the restraint and duty that sustain a long-hidden relationship. Watching an aging uncle and the woman he has quietly loved for years, Burt shows how affection can survive without ever becoming public, even as the postwar mood sharpens every judgment.
Putnam Adult
Generation Kill
Evan Wright
The 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest went to Evan Wright's Generation Kill, a frontline account of the Iraq War.
Harper Large Print
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
A historical novel set in a 19th-century American hospital, told through the perspective of a young woman medical student. It combines coming-of-age themes with a medical and moral drama.