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Author
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Silas Fortunato applies for an editorial position for the “spirituality” section of a local newspaper, he is asked to fill in a bubble sheet to mark his religion. The problem is, his beliefs don’t fall within any of the categories. Silas believes that selflessness enlarges vision and that what a person should strive for is to be overcome by the beyond. He believes in honoring otherness and in giving questions credence over certainty. He...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.
Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others,...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
108 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists". The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions and Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, this collection features fantastical stories in which monsters and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
792 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Loyning returns from the military to his mother's home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn't really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On a world called Heaven, Conwyn, known as the Shadow of the Raven, contains the collective memory of humanity's Falls from Grace and discovers that another Fall may happen. If he doesn't stop it, mankind will not survive.
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