Julian Barnes, A Premonition of the End
Julian Barnes is perhaps the most brilliant and original novelist of modern Britain. And his novel A Premonition of the End won the Booker Prize
Michael Ondaatje “War Light”
After the end of World War II, the parents temporarily remove fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel from London and leave them in the care of a family friend
Itaf Ram “A woman is not a man”
Eighteen-year-old Daya Raad lives in New York City, the “city of unlimited possibilities. But she has no cell phone, no computer, no friends.
Hanya Yanagihara “A Small Life”
A university chronicle, an ancient Greek tragedy, an educational novel modeled on the thick novels of the 19th century, a scary bedtime story