A Free Life / Ha Jin
Ha Jin follows the fortunes of Nan Wu, who drops out of a U.S. grad school after the repression of the democracy movement in China, hoping to find his voice as a poet while supporting his family and navigating American culture.
The Outlander / Gil Adamson
In 1903 a young woman kills her husband and flees across the West. As her vengeful brothers-in-law track her she is tormented by mad visions as she escapes further into the wilderness.
 Away / Amy Bloom
Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Seattle's Jazz District, Alaska, and along the Telegraph Trail toward Siberia to find the missing girl. The Savage Detectives / Roberto Bolano
Two poets, leaders of the Mexican visceral realist literary movement, search for an obscure icon. The eclectic assortment of characters they encounter on the way makes the journey less about the search and more about literature and language.
Falling Man / Don DeLillo
It begins in the smoke and ash of 9/11 and follows the intimate lives of a small cast of characters as world events reconfigure their emotional landscapes, memories and perceptions of the world.
Echo Maker / Richard Powers
Twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter, suffering from a rare brain disorder that causes him to believe his sister to be an impostor, endeavors to discover the cause of the motor vehicle accident that resulted in his head injury.
The Hamilton Case / Michelle de Kretser
Ceylon lawyer Sam Obeysekere, whose career has been guided by British culture and his Oxford education, tackles a scandal-ridden murder trial, mistakenly convinced that his reputation will shield him from the social unrest that the case has exposed.
Seven Types of Ambiguity / Elliot Perlman
Frustrated by years of unrequited love, an unemployed school teacher takes matters into his own hands, with unexpected repercussions, in a story told by six different narrators whose lives have become entangled with one another.
 The History of Love / Nicole Krauss
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
Brick Lane : a novel / Monica Ali
Nazneen, born in a Bangladeshi village, is transported to London at age eighteen to enter into an arranged marriage. Carrying into her adult years a sense of fatalism instilled during her hardscrabble birth, Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age and moved to London, where she begins to wonder if she has a say in her own destiny.
The Accidental / Ali Smith
Talking her way into the Norfolk cottage that the Smart family is renting for the summer, Amber, an enigmatic con artist, insinuates herself into the lives of Eve, her husband Michael, and their children.
The Book of Lost Things / John Connolly
Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded.
Exit Ghost / Philip Roth
The final Zuckerman story finds our literary hero returning to New York after eleven years of self-imposed isolation. Interacting with others in ways he has avoided for years suddenly involves him again with love, mourning, desire and animosity as Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of poignant possibilities. |
