Fiction: A-Z by Author
CHINESE TAKEOUT by Arthur Nersesian
‘Thoroughly validates Nersesian’s reputation as one of the wittiest and most perceptive chroniclers of downtown life.’ Time Out, New York
Desperate for cash, Orloff agrees to take a commission no one else will touch: he has three weeks to carve a headstone for a recently deceased Chinese restaurateur – a Chinese takeout box.
TOUBA AND THE MEANING OF NIGHT by Shahrnush Parsipur
When her father dies, fourteen-year-old Touba proposes for financial reasons to a middle-aged man. Miserably depressed, she divorces him and later remarries - this time to a Qajar prince. Touba is intrigued by politics and religion and seeks spiritual truth with a Sufi master, but ultimately the demands of her crumbling household intervene.
THE DARKEST CHILD by Delores Phillips
‘Filled with grand plot events and clearly identifiable villains and victims . . . lush with detail and captivating with its story of racial tension and family violence.’ Washington Post Book World
Rozelle’s children are the only thing in her life she has control over, and she is not a woman whose commands can be easily ignored.
THE DEVIL IN THE FLESH by Raymond Radiguet
The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of sixteen, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front.
'a triumph of the poetic intelligence: a masterpiece...' New Statesman
THE GERMAN MONEY by Lev Raphael
Three siblings come together when their cold, unemotional mother dies. They have each been left an inheritance, but it is very uneven. One son, Paul has been left the German money, $1 million of German reparation money, a gift as cynical as it is generous. The siblings quarrel over money, and also visit their Alzheimer-riddled father in his nursing home, racked with guilt for abandoning him.
JULES ET JIM by Henri Pierre Roché
Jules arrives from Austria in belle epoque Paris, where he is befriended by Jim. Together they embark upon a riotously Bohemian life, full of gaiety, colour and bustle. And then there is Kate, the enigmatic German girl with the mysterious smile.
'A delightful account of people sharing and unsharing each other.' Times Literary Supplement
