About the Book “Thoughtful and evocative … Slouka writes perceptively about the ambiguities of human behavior—both within the ordinary circumstances of marriage and in the extreme conditions of war.”—Eva Hoffman, New York Times Book Review “A vibrantly told love story.”—Washington Post Book World “Rich with intelligence and poetic detail, The Visible World demonstrates why [...]
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Story-Wallah by Shyam Selvadurai
About Story-Wallah Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. In this book, some of the world’s best fiction writers hawk their wares from different parts of the South Asian diaspora — Sri Lanka, India, the United States, Great Britain, Guyana, Malaysia, Trinidad, and Fiji [...]
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
About the book: “I know of no novel that makes the remote folk of the western prairies more real . . . and I know of none that makes them seem better worth knowing.” — H. L. Mencken, 1919 An enduring literary masterpiece first published in 1918 by Houghton Mifflin, this eloquent novel is an [...]
