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A Good Country Laleh Khadivi JULY 2017 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism Sales points • A magnificent and important novel from this highly acclaimed, prize-winning Iranian novelist. • For fans of Mohammed Hanif, Elif Shafak, Kamila Shamsie, Hanif Kureishi, Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs and Mohsin Hamid. • Major press coverage anticipated. Khadivi's previous novels received rave reviews and this very timely novel confronts urgent contemporary issues with subtlety and insight. Description The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture of fear and fanaticism Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old, straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In that moment, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, cuts classes and lies to his father. For the first time, Reza now Rez feels like an all-American teen. Then 9/11 the Boston bombings happen, and fears of terrorism abound. His newfound friends and their families begin to withdraw from Rez and he finds himself in an increasingly isolated state, where his skin colour, name and parents' background make him an object of suspicion. The only people he can relate to now are beautiful Fatima, who starts covering her hair with a hijab and going to the local mosque, and Arash until he disappears one day. Little by little, Reza is drawn into a frightening new world - A Good Country is a powerful meditation on modern life and on how international events can transform young lives. Insightful, nuanced and emotionally forceful, it is an important book for our times. About the Author Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran. She received her M.F.A. from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow at ISBN: 9781408876008 Emory University. She is the author of two previous novels, The Age of Orphans and The Walking. She has been Format: awarded a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She has also worked as a director, Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages producer and cinematographer of documentary films. Her debut film, 900 Women, aired on A&E and premiered at the Main Category: FA Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Khadivi lives in Northern California. Sub Category: laleh-khadivi.com / @ouronebigeye Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury JULY 2017 A Good Country 8 copy pack: Includes 8 copies of A Good Country plus a free display copy Sales points Description About the Author Price: $199.92 (NZ$215.92) ISBN: 9781408874967 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury Pb JULY 2017 Grief Cottage Gail Godwin The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin. Sales points • A PUBLISHING EVENT: An exquisite, tender new novel by a literary legend, a Southern Gothic ghost story with masterfully crafted characters to be published on the occasion of the author's 80th birthday. • A NATIONAL TREASURE: Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School. • REVERED BY CRITICS: Gail Godwin is a favorite of the literary world. Description The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin. After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation. The islanders call it "Grief Cottage," because a boy and his parents disappeared from it during a hurricane fifty years before. Their bodies were never found and the cottage has stood empty ever since. During his lonely hours while Aunt Charlotte is in her studio painting and keeping her demons at bay, Marcus visits the cottage daily, building up his courage by coming ever closer, even after the ghost of the boy who died seems to reveal himself. Full of curiosity and open to the unfamiliar and uncanny given the recent upending of his life, he courts the ghost boy, never certain whether the ghost is friendly or follows some sinister agenda. Grief Cottage is the best sort of ghost story, but it is far more than that--an investigation of grief, remorse, and the memories that haunt us. The power and beauty of this artful novel wash over the reader like the waves on a South Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Carolina beach. ISBN: 9781632867049 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the bestselling author of more than a dozen critically Main Category: F Fiction acclaimed books, including Publishing, a memoir, and the novels Flora, Father Melancholy's Daughter, and Evensong. Sub Category: She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, Illustrations: and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Woodstock, New York. www. Previous Titles: Author now living: gailgodwin.com. Bloomsbury USA JULY 2017 Commonwealth Ann Patchett 'Dazzling - The combination of lightness, warmth and remarkable incisiveness creates a novel that is life- affirming and compulsively readable' Sunday Times Sales points • A stunning new novel from one of America's most celebrated authors, that will appeal to fans of Marilynne Robinson, Anne Tyler and Donna Tartt • Deeply autobiographical, the story is based on real events in the author's own family • Winner of the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Ann Patchett is one of today's most acclaimed writers. Both Bel Canto and State of Wonder have sold nearly 150,000 copies in the UK and export Description 'Dazzling - The combination of lightness, warmth and remarkable incisiveness creates a novel that is life-affirming and compulsively readable' Sunday Times A powerful story of two families brought together by beauty and torn apart by tragedy, the new novel by the Orange Prize- winning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder is her most astonishing yet It is 1964: Bert Cousins, the deputy District Attorney, shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited, bottle of gin in hand. As the cops of Los Angeles drink, talk and dance into the June afternoon, he notices a heart-stoppingly beautiful woman. When Bert kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, the new baby pressed between them, he sets in motion the joining of two families whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later. 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She is also the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one Main Category: FA of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her work has been translated into more than thirty Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Tennessee Bloomsbury Pb JULY 2017 Commonwealth 8 Copy pack: Includes 8 copies of Commonwealth plus a free display copy Sales points Description About the Author Price: $159.92 (NZ$175.92) ISBN: 9781408874790 Format: Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 0 pages Main Category: WZ Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury Pb JULY 2017 Our Young Man Edmund White The newest novel from virtuosic writer Edmund White about the perils of beauty; a funny, sexy account of gay life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s. 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