Fiction - City Life

A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard CohenBefore Leonard Cohen's worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy awards, and late-career global tours, he yearned for literary stardom. The Canadian songwriter of iconic hits like "Hallelujah," "Suzanne,"...

"A love letter to the novel . . . and a profound exploration of human nature."--Library JournalIvan and Francesca decide to open a bookstore devoted to their love of books. Tucked away in a corner of Paris, the store offers a selection of literary...

Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of Disturbances in the Field and Leaving Brooklyn, returns with a psychological novel about memory, identity, and the ways we create ourselves. "What's the last thing you remember?" This is the question posed to Joe Marzino after being found on...

". . . powerful, thoughtful, and tender . . . An impressive literary novel." - Kirkus ReviewsA retired lawyer, an unlicensed contractor, and an ex-ballplayer walk into a bar . . . and transform their neighborhood.With a dark secret weighing heavily on his conscience,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"We're back on affluent suburban Long Island--Isaacs country--and she doesn't miss a beat or a bet when describing its inhabitants." --New York Times Book ReviewWritten with her trademark style, effervescent charm, and snappy wit, New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs...

A new title in the Granta Magazine Editions series: a vivid, ironic and blisteringly contemporary account of millennial love in Frankfurt and Berlin.Allegro Pastel follows a cult author and a web designer as they live and love in contemporary Berlin.Tanja and Jerome are navigating...

Acclaimed translator Damion Searls's exuberant debut novella navigates the bittersweet tug-of-war between nostalgia and living life meaningfully in a world buzzing with information overload. Analog Days is a snapshot of a circle of friends living through the sorrows and joys of a particular inflection...

The new thriller from #1 international bestselling author Guillaume Musso. PARIS, CHRISTMAS 2021. After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in the hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl reveals herself to be Louise Collange, a volunteer who has come...

A darkly comic and compelling satire of the art world from the author of The Disaster Tourist. An Yiji's career had been stalling for some time when a representative of the illustrious Robert Foundation offers her a spot on their all-expenses-paid artist residency in...

"My life will not make any sense when Attila is finished," declared Aliocha Coll about his mesmerizing final novel. In this groundbreaking "untranslatable" work, he channels Joycean experimentalism to explore the fragility of empires, the future of the city, and the weight of legacy....

The first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack--a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that captures with inspired detail a life driven by adventure, drugs, far-flung travel, and like her father, a relentless quest for pure experience. "If [Jack] Kerouac sometimes put a spiritual...

"Rod Lockwood has written an amazing book. Belle Isle champions freedom and opportunity, the powers that attracted so many adventurous souls to America over the years. In Belle Isle, he helps us rediscover the roots that built this great nation and suggests that these...

A prophetic lost classic from interwar Germany, following a group of Berliners navigating economic turmoil and the rise of fascism, now translated into English for the first time Berlin in the 1920s is the largest city in Europe, a cultural mecca, and a political...

Honorable mention in the Global Humanities Translation Prize When five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told--he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his father isn't...

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public--yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much.He's never taken other people half as...

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public--yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much.He's never taken other people half as...

"The best book on Haiti in a very long time . . . powerful, spot on, likely the best written." --Dany Laferrière An astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in Haiti Cécé La Flamme, as she's known...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker comes a sexy and hilarious rom-com trilogy about three broke and beautiful strangers who share an apartment in NYC... College drop-out Roxy Cumberland moved to New...

From New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky, a delectable novel following one Manhattan block as an ancient cheesecake recipe-and a conniving landlord-change the Upper West Side forever.West 86th Street knows its desserts. It's the 1970s, and poppyseed strudel, praline ice cream cake, and...

A glamorous and revealing biographical novel for readers of Renee Rosen, Allison Pataki, and Fiona Davis, starring one of Swinging London's defining figures, Mary Quant, who made history with the miniskirt, slashed hemlines, and transformed more than fashion, for herself, for her friends, and...