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A spare and gripping novel about a disastrous pandemic-completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged-that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis.

The uncannily prescient new work of fiction-"the great novel of the COVID-19 era" (Karen Russell)-from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Book of Aron.In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, eleven-year-old Aleq and his best friend, Malik, are frequent trespassers on a nearby mining site exposed to long-buried, now thawing, permafrost. What they pick up there and carry back to their settlement is more deadly than anyo...

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Jim Shepard is a fiction writer of peculiar but tantalizing gifts." The New York TimesIn a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, ...

A spare and gripping novel about a disastrous pandemic-completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged-that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis.

A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis.In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's ha...

A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis.In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's ha...

Charlie Bronson und Annie sind ein glückliches Paar und führen ein scheinbar ruhiges Leben. Eines Tages wird Charlie jedoch von seiner Vergangenheit eingeholt: Er muss Annie gestehen, dass er früher Fluchtwagenfahrer bei Banküberfällen war und sich nun in einem Zeugenschutzprogramm befindet. Seine ehemaligen Partner, die er durch seine Aussage hinter Gitter gebracht hat, sind nun wieder auf freiem Fuß und hinter Charlie her - sie wollen die Be...

Charlie Bronson und Annie sind ein glückliches Paar und führen ein scheinbar ruhiges Leben. Eines Tages wird Charlie jedoch von seiner Vergangenheit eingeholt: Er muss Annie gestehen, dass er früher Fluchtwagenfahrer bei Banküberfällen war und sich nun in einem Zeugenschutzprogramm befindet. Seine ehemaligen Partner, die er durch seine Aussage hinter Gitter gebracht hat, sind nun wieder auf freiem Fuß und hinter Charlie her - sie wollen die B...

A fantastic writer - compassionate, funny and fearless' George Saunders'One of the US's finest writers' according to Joshua Ferris, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivalled mastery. These ten stories ring with voices as diverse as those belonging to Arctic explorers in history's most nightmarish expedition, the Montgolfier brothers competing to be the first man to fly, and two American frontier...

In The World to Come, Jim Shepard ("Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America" -The Daily Beast) traverses both borders and centuries. Seamlessly inhabiting a multitude of disparate men and women, he gives voice to visionaries, pioneers, and secret misfits, from nineteenth-century explorers departing on one of the Arctic's most nightmarish expeditions to twentieth-century American military wives maintaining hope at home. Shepa...

Despite the high walls of his prison at the City Dog Pound, Jake has big ambitions. He wants to become a professional airline pilot and learn to speak perfect Parisian French. After a daring escape he works to overcome his fears and discover his dreams. His breathtaking adventures lead him into aeronautic dogfights over the skies of Northern Africa, visits to the beautiful Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and a hairy situation near the exotic Ca...

Shepard may be the best lesser-known film critic." --The New York Times Book Review The first book of nonfiction from one of our great fiction writers.

Una squadra di spericolati alpinisti polacchi tenta la scalata invernale del Nanga Parbat. Il difensore Velibor Vasovic, figlio di partigiani jugoslavi, attraversa la cortina di ferro per unirsi all'Ajax di Cruyff, l'architetto del calcio totale. Alla vigilia della rivoluzione di Castro, tre americani squinternati vanno a giocare a baseball a Cuba. Un pilota di idrovolanti visita il fiordo di Lituya Bay, in Alaska, teatro del più violento tsun...

From the hugely acclaimed National Book Award finalist, a novel that will join the shortlist of classics about the Holocaust and the children caught up in it.

In the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can't quite bring themselves to fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize him daily. Sharing in these schoolyard indignities is his only friend, Flake. Branded together as misfits, their fury simmers quietly in the hallways...

From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau (1888-1931). Murnau ranks as a founding father of the cinema, not least for his legendary horror film, "Nosferatu." Here he is revealed as a hermetic genius who turns against himself, becoming in a sense his own vampire. What shadows Jim Shepard's Murnau--through the airfields of the Great War to Berlin in the twenties and to t...

Aron, ein kleiner polnisch-jüdischer Junge, ist in seiner nicht gerade kleinen, armen Familie so etwas wie eine Katastrophe auf zwei Beinen. Nichts will ihm so recht glücken und alles macht er kaputt. Doch halb Tom Sawyer, halb Simplicius - er ist ein guter Kerl. Aron hat leider keine Zeit, ein vernünftiger Erwachsener zu werden. Denn seine Familie zieht nach Warschau, die Deutschen überfallen Polen und die Juden werden ins Ghetto gepfercht. E...

Aron is a nine-year-old Polish Jew, and a troublemaker. His mother despairs of him. His father beats him. He tries to be good. But in 1939, as the walls go up around the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, as lice and typhus rage, families starve and fight, it is Aron who finds a way - however dangerous, however treacherous - to survive. It isn't until he lands at the feet of Janusz Korczak - orphanage director and reluctant hero - that he learns of some...

Widely considered one of America's finest living short story writers, this is his first collection to be published in the UK.