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Levin, retired from the security services, lives alone in Jerusalem. Adrift, he agrees to follow a friend's wife and discover her secret lover. When she turns to Levin with an unexpected request, his own moral universe is called into question.

Probing loss and memory amid violence and displacement . . . Tearne deftly reveals the corrosive effects of civil strife on private lives and the redemptiveness of art.--"The Guardian.

2 men become friends through their sons, but how much do they really know about each other?

A portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the 50-year union of two remarkable people, "The Man in the Wooden Hat" is fiction of a very high order from the author of "Old Filth.

Taking humanity's complex relationship with the sea as its starting point, "Seven Tenths" is an enticing meditation on the sea as the physical birthplace of the human race and the emotional source of its dreams.

Italy's foremost satirist recounts the adventures of Timeskipper, a young man endowed with a rare gift: the ability to see into the future. A tale in which innocence and imagination defy corruption and conformity, in which the eccentricities and innocence of yesteryear come face-to-face with the moral aridity of today's money-obsessed society, "Timeskipper" is one of Stefano Benni's most touching and enduring creations. Colored by Benni's trad...

A fascinating account, based on true events, of the short reign of Eleanora de Moura in Sicily. An intelligent woman, she made plans to implement a number of measures to help lift the effects of the country's increasing poverty, but these were considered seditious by the Church and she was swiftly recalled to Spain. Her reign lasted only one cycle of the moon.

Barbery best expresses her talent, demonstrating sensitivity and profound understanding both of life's many flavors and of the ways of the human soul, with all its weaknesses and contradictions.--"Food & Beverage Magazine" (Italy).

A profoundly original, beautifully written work, so emotionally accurate that it tears at the heart. I read it without stopping."-Gerald Stern Sophie Marks' path to artistic and personal fulfillment takes her from World War II England to postwar Paris and the Italian countryside. She leaves Europe in 1967 and spends the next two decades in the American Southwest. Acclaimed at last as an artist, she returns to England to confront the hidden mem...

Izzo digs deep into what makes men weep."-Time Out New York In this moving investigation into the human comedy, the men aboard an impounded freighter in the port of Marseilles are divided: Wait for the money owed them, or accept their fate and abandon ship? Captain Abdul Aziz is determined to save his charge and do the right thing by his men. In these close quarters charged with physical and emotional tension, each life begins to resemble a ch...

The final novel from the author of the Marseilles trilogy. "A bleak, affecting tale about a man on the skids, despairing of love's ability to heal" (Publishers Weekly).Rico has been banished to society's margins, he has neither a roof over his head nor a steady income on which to depend. When a friend and fellow vagabond dies of exposure after a night spent in the Paris metro, Rico decides to flee the northern cold for his beloved south, for M...

In the remote Australian outback during World War II, the emotionally stuntedchild of an English couple is befriended by equally adrift strangers, in thisstory that explores the values of friendship, loyalty, and sacrifice.

Book Three in the Gerald Samper series finds Samper recuperating in Sussex, when he learns that film rights to his book on Millie Cleatathe have been sold. This windfall is sufficient to finance a return to Italy--and his dream to write the libretto for an opera.

Seventeen-year-old Sacha Naimann is precocious, independent, skeptical, and, since her stepfather murdered her mother, an orphan. Her dream is to write a novel about her mother--and end the life of the man who murdered her. 366.

Described as the best living Italian crime writer ("Il Manifesto"), Carlotto gives his American readers his most memorable character yet: ex-con-turned-private investigator Marco Buratti, a.k.a. The Alligator.

Rebecca Connell's brilliantly crafted debut novel examines the consequences of betrayal and the legacy of loss. At the age of five, Louise lost her mother in a tragic accident. Now eighteen years later, she remains convinced of the truth she glimpsed as a girl, that her mother's lover Nicholas, an Oxford professor, was responsible for her death. And so Louise becomes Lydia, hiding her identity behind her dead mother's name and setting out to c...

A high-ranking official in the Israeli secret service is handed a new assignment: go undercover as an aspiring novelist to befriend Daphna, an Israeli writer, and her friend Hani, a renowned Palestinian poet. The target is Hani's son Yotam, a wanted terrorist leader.

Tracing the dark possibilities of best intentions gone awry, this darkly comic novel about a dysfunctional young woman's life in the suburbs offers interesting psychological insights.

A humorous and moving novel set in Chile under Pinochet, translated by Howard Curtis.