Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: near fine
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. 'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.' Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retre ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich's leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is feeling the bite and so Maravan - a Tamil dishwasher and und ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Three journeys. One road.England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.Coming in their direction from across the ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration Frances Price-tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature-is in dire straits, beset by ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband's death--and the truth about their marriage--in Laura van den Berg's surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. " A] future cult classic." --The New York Times Book Review "There's Borges and Bola o, K ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This title is presented with a new introduction from the author. ""My Michael" is a beautiful work of great depth and lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story". (Arthur Miller). It's 1950s Jerusalem. Hannah Gonen has just married and is thrilled and pain ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a rail car releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality. "W ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
"A profusion of delightful passages couched in unfailingly lovely language." -- New York Times Book Review1939. As the Nazis advance into Poland, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker named Pomeranz escapes into the wintry forest, leaving behind his beautiful, intelligent wife, Stefa. After the war, hav ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A generous imagination at work. Oz's] language, for all of its sensuous imagery, has a careful and wise simplicity. -- New York Times Book ReviewSituated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Oz's fictional community of Metsudat Ram is a microcosm of the Israeli frontier kibbutz. There, held toget ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Echo is a failing actress who prefers to lose herself in the lives of others rather than examine her own. When her father disappears in a seaside misstep, she and her mother are left grief-stricken, unsure of how to piece back together their family that, it turns out, had never been whole. But then Orly ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Brutal. Uncompromising. Magnificent. Complex. Unforgettable. A timely debut short story collection that breaks open the idea of women from a powerful new Australian literary voice.She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of violence imagined on the sk ...Show more
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