The Afghan odyssey of two Pakistani brothers finds fabled beauty amidst modern warfare.

A multiracial man returns to the African town of his birth, to confront a mystery of poetry and identity.

Charting a love affair between astronomers from worlds apart.

The rise of a painter amid the French Revolution and the Terror that followed.

A supernatural thriller that defies genre conventions and the "guilty pleasure" principle.

History repeats itself -- with variations -- in an inventive epic from the creator of the Jackson Brodie novels.

A view of the Colorado landscape and a family's new horizon.

A long-out-of-print gem of wry postmodernism returns.

A Welsh farmhouse offers a garden of earthly delights.

Why the eighty-eight-year old novelist's new work reads like a debut.

A family's domestic drama carries the magnitude of Greek myth.

A horde of surreal short stories meld the commonplace with the supernatural.

Phantom authors haunt the pages of Ali Smith’s unclassifiable new work.

A novel of Belle  Époque Paris, through the eyes of a dancer-turned-studio-muse.

A novel of Germany during the rise of the Nazis -- and banned by Hitler's regime.

A biblical miracle is recast as an episode in the story of a long and unusual friendship.

A mansion-full of stuffed beasts provides a haunting setting for a novel of secrets and consequences.

A wryly observant take on twenty-first-century America through the life of one of its most colorful cities.

The acclaimed Norwegian novelist captures the angst of youth and evokes the work of Raymond Carver.

A sprawling aesthetic jumble of a novel finds a unified voice.

A young veteran of the war in Iraq turns to fiction in his struggle to make sense of a perplexing combat.

On the road in search of self-awareness.

A star on the rise during Hollywood's Golden Age.

The novelist maps a twenty-first century city through the lives of four of its natives.

A Cockney thug wins the lottery.

After a mysterious flu wipes out most of the U.S. population, a man and his canine companion struggle to survive.

A farmer who loves his cows more than his wife has his world turned upside down by the arrival of a migrant worker.

The depths of a celebrity-fevered culture are mapped in a Hollywood Inferno.

Stranded in Saudi Arabia, a salesman confronts the hollowed-out remains of his life.

A sixties radical confronts the twenty-first century.