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PENGUIN CLASSICS The Bird’s Nest Sagittarius Rising Shirley Jackson • Foreword by Kevin Wilson • Cecil Lewis • Introduction by Samuel Hynes • 978-0-14-310703-3 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • 978-0-14-310734-7 • $16.00 • June 2014 • The Divine Comedy: Jackson’s third novel develops hallmarks of the Memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso horror master’s most unsettling work: tormented adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm Dante Alighieri • Translated with an Introduction heroines, riveting familial mysteries, and a of The Little Prince • “Classic…the definitive and Notes by Robin Kirkpatrick • 978-0-14- disquieting vision inside the human mind. • account of aerial combat—full of passion and 119749-4 • $26.00 • March 2014 • The acclaimed “Jackson’s best novel…Brilliant, swift, at times poetry.”—The Independent translation of the most famous work of Italian immensely funny, and alternately frightening. literature, now in a one-volume edition. Jackson’s portrayal of a personality in On the Genealogy of Morals disintegration is masterful.”—Chicago Tribune Friedrich Nietzsche • Translated by Michael A. Barlaam and Josaphat: Scarpitti • Introduction and Notes by Robert C. A Christian Tale of the Buddha The Sundial Holub • 978-0-14-1195377 • $15.00 • Feb 2014 Gui de Cambrai • Translated by Peggy Shirley Jackson • Foreword by Victor LaValle • • First time in Penguin Classics: Nietzsche’s McCracken • Introduction by Donald S. Lopez, 978-0-14-310706-4 • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • When accessible exploration of key ideas in his Jr. • 978-0-14-3107019 • $16.00 • March 2014 • the Halloran clan gathers at the family home landmark Beyond Good and Evil—in a lucid New translation of the most popular Christian for a funeral, no one is surprised when the new translation. tale of the Middle Ages, which springs from the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off story of the Buddha into the secret garden. But then she returns to The Prophecies report a vision of an apocalypse from which Nostradamus • Translated by Richard Sieburth The Confession of a Child of the Century only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be • Edited by Stephane Gerson • Introduction by Alfred de Musset • Translated with an spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in Richard Sieburth and Stephane Gerson • Notes Introduction and Notes by David Coward • growing madness, fear, and violence as they by Richard Sieburth • Appendix by Stephane 978-0-14-139185-4 • $17.00 • March 2014 • prepare for a terrible new world. Gerson • 978-0-14-310723-1 • $18.00 • Jan The classic French novel of infidelity and 2014 • First major literary presentation of The decadence, published in the first new English Landscape with Figures: Prophecies, newly translated and edited by translation in a hundred years. Selected Prose and Writings prizewinning scholars. • “Sieburth’s glittering Richard Jefferies • Introduction by Richard translation rescues one of the world’s most arcane Narrative of the Life of Frederick Mabey • 978-0-14-139289-9 • $17.00 • Feb 2014 texts from the realm of hearsay, and renders its Douglass, an American Slave • From the father of English nature writing: a strange poetry palpable and moving.”—John Frederick Douglass • Edited with a new superb selection of essays about rural England Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Introduction by Ira Dworkin • 978-0-14-310730- in the 1800s. 9 • $13.00 • Feb 2014 • An updated edition of a The Rise of Rome classic African American autobiography, with Dubliners Plutarch • Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, new supplementary materials. James Joyce • Foreword by Colum McCann • Christopher Pelling and Jeffrey Tatum • 978-0-14-310745-3 • $17.00 • June 2014 • For Introduction by Jeffrey Tatum the centennial of its original publication, a • 978-0-14-0449754 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • Latest Graphic Deluxe Edition of one of the most installment in our fully revised edition of beloved books of the 20th century. Plutarch’s Lives
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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Letters to a Young Poet POETRY U.S. FICTION Rainer Maria Rilke • Translated by Charlie Louth • Introduction by Lewis Hyde • 978-0-14-119232-1 • $14.00 • April 2014 • Roget’s Illusion The Secret History of Las Vegas Rilke’s powerfully touching letters to an Linda Bierds • 978-0-399-16546-7 • $27.95 • Chris Abani • 978-0-14-312495-5 • $16.00 • Jan aspiring young poet. April 2014 • Putnam • Bierds asks why do we 2014 • Penguin • From the award winning persist, despite the perils of this world, in author of The Virgin of Flames comes a riveting The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies trying to untangle the illusions that ensnare us? novel about a series of killings in Las Vegas and Clark Ashton Smith • Edited with an • “Her poems, with their constantly surprising the conjoined twins accused of committing Introduction and Notes by S. T. Joshi • delicacy and their language rich with insight them. • “Chris Abani is a force of nature. In the 978-0-14-310738-5 • $16.00 • April 2014 • and a sensuous music, radiate real power and world of letters he is a luminous shattering “Incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, authority and animal presence.”—W. S. Merwin talent.”—Junot Díaz and still more fantastic creatures…Take one (U.S. Poet Laureate, 2010–2011) step across the threshold of his stories and you What the Family Needed plunge into colour, sound, taste, smell and Haiku Love Steven Amsterdam • 978-1-59463-235-8 • texture: into language.”—Ray Bradbury Edited and translated by Alan Cummings • $16.00 • April 2014 • Riverhead • A family’s 978-1-4683-0860-0 • $15.95 • Jan 2014 • superpowers bestow not instant salvation but The Little Demon Overlook • The majority of the poems in this the miracle of accepting who they are. • Fyodor Sologub • Translated by Ronald Wilks • collection come from the Tokugawa period and “Brilliant, unexpected, wide-ranging and Introduction by Pamela Davidson • 978-0-14- include works from the best-known Japanese deeply moving, the story of one family’s 139293-6 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • A blackly comic classical authors, female poets and a number of extraordinary—and sometimes otherworldly— Russian classic about a schoolteacher’s descent contemporary writers. Illustrated with images negotiation of the very real hazards of into sadism, arson, and murder. from the collection of Japanese paintings and life.”—Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the prints in the British Museum. Only Way I Want It The Time Regulation Institute Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar • Translated by Another Reason Queen Sugar Alexander Dawe and Maureen Freely • 978-0-14- Carl Dennis • 978-0-14-312522-8 • $18.00 • Natalie Baszile • 978-0-670-02613-5 • $27.95 • 310673-9 • $16.00 • Jan 2014 • Penguin Black Tie April 2014 • A new collection from the winner Feb 2014 • Pamela Dorman Books • A Classics • A tragicomedy of modernization, in its of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize. mother-daughter story of reinvention—about first-ever English translation. • “An allegorical an African American woman who masterpiece.”—Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Selected Poems unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Nobel Prize in Literature. Vladislav Khodasevich • Translated by Peter Louisiana. • “A sweeping, beautifully wrought, Daniels • With an Introduction by Michael and uniquely American story….A lyrical and The Tale of the Heike Wachtel • 978-1-4683-0810-5 • $27.95 • Jan page-turning meditation on second chances, Translated by Royall Tyler • 978-0-14-310726-2 2014 • Overlook • Bilingual edition • First reinvention, family, and race”—Melanie Gideon, • $30.00 • April 2014 • Includes 55 illustrations English-language edition of the work of “the author of The Slippery Year and Wife 22 by Japanese master artist Teisai Hokuba • Fully greatest Russian poet or our time” (Vladimir annotated, with maps, character guides, and Nabokov). • “Khodasevich is one of the great Steal the North genealogies • From the acclaimed translator of undiscovered poets of the twentieth century. Heather Brittain Bergstrom The Tale of Genji His verse is inventive, sharp and sensuous, full • 978-0-670-78618-3 • $27.95 • April 2014 • of the pain of exile yet suffused with hope and Viking • An atmospheric debut novel about a belief in the redemptive power of poetry. The teenage California girl discovering her mother’s greatest compliment to Peter Daniels is that his past, the family she never knew she had, and a translations capture not only the semantic content, once-in-a-lifetime love in the land of her birth, but the rhythm and the soul of Khodasevich’s eastern Washington state. art.”—Martin Sixsmith, author of Russia: A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East While Beauty Slept Elizabeth Blackwell • 978-0-399-16623-5 • The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon $25.95 • March 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • Willie Perdomo • 978-0-14-312523-5 • $18.00 • The Brother Grimm meets The Thirteenth Tale April 2014 • Penguin • “There is no poet alive as the legend of Sleeping Beauty is turned on its who can match the lyrical intelligence, head in this Gothic retelling of the real story ferocious wit and searching humanity of behind the cherished childhood classic. • Perdomo…He’s the Puerto Rican diaspora’s “Blackwell’s writing is magical in this complex, unofficial poet laureate and what he knows dark, and sensual retelling of Sleeping Beauty. about being of color, being between languages, Imaginative, evocative, full of surprises, this is a being poor, being a man, being in trouble, captivating debut.”—M. J. Rose, bestselling could save your life.”—Junot Diaz author of Seduction
PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 3 The Painted Girls The Miniature Wife: and Other Stories The Secret of Magic Cathy Marchie Buchanan • 978-1-59463-229-7 Manuel Gonzales • 978-1-59463-227-3 • $16.00 Deborah Johnson • 978-0-399-15772-1 • • $16.00 • Feb 2014 • Riverhead • Set during • Feb 2014 • Riverhead • In the tradition of $26.95 • Feb 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • In Belle Epoque Paris and inspired by the real-life George Saunders and Aimee Bender, a debut 1946, a young female attorney from New York model of Degas’s Little Dancer Aged 14. • “A that chronicles an ordinary world marked by City attempts the impossible: attaining justice captivating story of fate, tarnished ambition unusual phenomena. • “A marvel—a beautiful, for a black man in the Deep South. • “I found and the ultimate triumph of sister-love.”— hilarious and moving reinvention of the gothic, this story about race, the South, our country, Susan Vreeland, The Washington Post a testimony to the sublime powers of the part history, part mystery—never imagination and language…This a book of disappointing…A layered tale of the best and My Education extraordinary joy, compassion, horror and worst of our history, beautifully wrought by a Susan Choi • 978-0-14-312257-0 • $16.00 • grace all rolled into one.”—Dinaw Mengestu, master storyteller.”—Robert Hicks, author of May 2014 • Penguin • An intimately charged author of Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears The Widow of the South novel of desire and disaster from the author of the critically acclaimed A Person of Interest by A Man Came Out The Master Blaster the winner of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for of a Door in the Mountain P.F. Kluge • 978-1-4683-0709-2 • $15.95 • Feb a Writer in Mid-Career. • “The academic novel Adrianne Harun • 978-0-670-78610-7 • $16.00 2014 • Overlook • From the author of Gone married to the novel of obsession is almost too • March 2014 • Penguin • Harun weaves Tomorrow, a compelling portrayal of strangers pleasurable to contemplate ... Choi’s an together folklore, mythology, and elements of adrift in Saipan, America’s least-appreciated extremely confident writer, and inMy magical realism to create an unsettling portrait exotic getaway. • “Stingingly funny…A long, Education she beautifully explores the way a of life in a dead-end town. • “Harun possesses bewitching love letter to an utterly maddening young person tries, and often fails, to navigate that rare ability to see the world at an odd tilt place…[Kluge’s] voice—jaundiced, seasoned, her budding and intersecting sexual, that makes everything appear new, at times amused and vibrant as it is—gives The Master intellectual, and emotional lives. The writing in even to shimmer.”—Richard Russo Blaster added allure.”—Janet Maslin, The New this novel is masterful ... I wanted to read it all York Times Book Review • “Delving deep into the time.”—Meg Wolitzer, npr.org You Are One of Them his rich setting, Kluge patiently lays out a tale Elliott Holt • 978-0-14-312544-0 • $16.00 • of intrigue and ignorance worthy of Graham No Book but the World May 2014 • Penguin • Inspired by a true story, Greene.”—Stewart O’Nan Leah Hager Cohen • 978-1-59448-603-6 • the novel begins when ten-year-old best friends $27.95 • April 2014 • Riverhead • A gripping, Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones write Mambo in Chinatown morally complex novel that explores to what letters to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov asking Jean Kwok • 978-1-59463-200-6 • $27.95 • July degree parents are responsible for actions their for peace. But Sarah is left behind when the 2014 • Riverhead • From the bestselling author children take as adults, and how much grown Kremlin invites only her friend to visit the of Girl in Translation, a new novel about a siblings owe one another. USSR. The rift in their friendship still hasn’t young woman torn between her family duties healed when Jenny dies in a plane crash. Ten in Chinatown and her escape into the world of Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles years later, Sarah receives a mysterious letter ballroom dancing. Ron Currie • 978-0-14-312442-9 • $16.00 • Feb suggesting that Jenny’s death might have been a 2014 • Penguin • A bold story about the hoax. She sets off to the former Soviet Union in Rules for Becoming a Legend impossibility of love and the inevitability of search of the truth, but the deeper she digs, the Timothy S. Lane • 978-0-670-01488-0 • $26.95 grief by the acclaimed author of Everything harder it is to separate facts from propaganda. • • March 2014 • Viking • A spirited debut of a Matters! • “Currie’s most grounded work yet… “A hugely absorbing first novel from a writer rising basketball star wrestling with his town’s [with] gorgeously questioning prose.”—The with a fluid, vivid style and a rare knack for outsized expectations and his family’s New Yorker balancing the pleasure of entertainment… complicated legacy. insight.”—The New York Times Book Review The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls (Editors’ Choice) The Facades Anton DiSclafani • 978-1-59463-270-9 • $16.00 Eric Lundgren • 978-1-4683-0894-5 • $14.95 • • June 2014 • Riverhead • Bestselling debut The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards June 2014 • Overlook • A major literary debut novel of family secrets, set in a girls’ boarding Kristopher Jansma • 978-0-14-312502-0 • about love, loss, and self-discovery in a restless school in the 1930s South. • “Thea Atwell is an $16.00 • March 2014 • Penguin • An inventive America. • “Harrowing and hilarious…This is a unforgettable heroine.”—Laura Moriarty, debut about a young man’s quest to become a detective novel that owes as much to Haruki author of The Chaperone• “In elegant prose writer and the misadventures in life and love Murakami and Italo Calvino as to John D. that evokes the cadences of a vanished epoch, that take him around the globe. • “A funhouse MacDonald and James M. Cain.”—The New DiSclafani unfolds at a leisurely pace…An of a novel.…A whimsical round-the-world tour Yorker unusually accomplished and nuanced coming- that recalls Calvino, Millhauser, and The of-age drama.”—Kirkus (starred review) Confidence Man.” —Stewart O’Nan • “[A] The Hundred-Year House canny, seductive, and utterly transfixing tale Rebecca Makkai • 978-0525426684 • $26.95 • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves about the magic of storytelling and the misery July 2014 • Viking • Funny and touching story Karen Joy Fowler • 9780142180822 • $16.00 • of writing…Jansma streams stories-within- about the secrets of an old money family and March 2014 • Plume • From the bestselling stories-within-stories, each a diabolically clever the mysterious working of fate from the author author of The Jane Austen Book Club, the story h om a g e .” —Booklist (starred review) of The Borrower. of an American family, ordinary in every way but one. • “A dark cautionary tale hanging out, incognito-style, in what at first seems a traditional family narrative. It is anything but. This novel is deliciously jaunty in tone and disturbing in material.”—Alice Sebold
PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 In Paradise Waiting for the Electricity Troika Peter Matthiessen • 978-1-59463-317-1 • Christina Nichol • 978-1-4683-0686-6 • $26.95 Adam Pelzman • 978-0-399-16748-5 • $25.95 • $27.95 • Apr 2014 • Riverhead • From the • June 2014 • Overlook • A picaresque set in May 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • A sensuous, co-founder of The Paris Review and the author post-Soviet Georgia—land of corruption, love, original novel about an unconventional of Shadow Country and The Snow Leopard, and power shortages. • “A wildly original and relationship among three very different people. which both won National Book Awards. A ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural • “Poignant, painful, impeccably realized, and diverse group sets off for a weeklong retreat at a clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven’t read a first ultimately joyful. I am so grateful to Pelzman former concentration camp site. As the days novel this promising since The Confederacy of for creating this gem of a world.”—Ayelet pass, tensions, both political and personal, Dunces.”—Jill Ciment, author of Heroic Measures Waldman, author of Love and Treasure surface among the participants. I Always Loved You Why Are You So Sad? Shirley Robin Oliveira • 978-0-670-78579-7 • $27.95 • Jason Porter • 978-0-142-18058-7 • $15.00 • Susan Scarf Merrell • 978-0-399-16645-7 • Feb 2014 • Viking • A novel of Mary Cassatt Feb 2014 • Plume • A melancholic pictographer $25.95 • June 2014 • Blue Rider Press • From the and Edgar Degas’s great romance that re- at a company resembling IKEA hypothesizes author of A Member of the Family who teaches creates the irresistible world of Belle Époque that the human race has fallen into a species- in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Paris, from the New York Times bestselling wide depression, and decides to get to the Stony Brook Southampton. A fictional young author of My Name Is Mary Sutter. bottom of it. • “Porter could find a place on the couple spends a year at Bennington in 1964 shelf beside Richard Brautigan, George with novelist Shirley Jackson and her husband The Visitors Saunders, and David Sedaris. This is a quick, in this psychological thriller. Patrick O’Keeffe • 978-0-670-02463-6 • $26.95 odd, wonderful book.”—Colum McCann, • March 2014 • Viking • From the Story author of Let the Great World Spin and White Dog Fell from the Sky Prize–winning author of The Hill Road, a lyrical TransAtlantic Eleanor Morse • 978-0-14-312443-6 • $16.00 • novel set in America and Ireland about love, Jan 2014 • Penguin • An intimate portrait of secrets, and family intimacies. • “In The Brother of Sleep Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined Visitors, the past is constantly catching up to, Robert Schneider • 978-1-4683-0866-2 • $16.95 lives are at once tragic and remarkable. • “There and overtaking, the present, and the result is a • July 2014 • Overlook • Set in a remote Alpine are not enough adjectives to describe the haunted and beautiful book that culminates in village in the early nineteenth century, this strength of this story…. Emotionally riveting, violance that’s both inevitable and surprising. A novel tells the story of a musical genius with heartbreaking…Each sentence is more wonderful fist novel.”—Charles Baxter supernatural hearing. • “A strange, rich story… beautiful than the last.”—New York Journal of The writing draws much of its power from the Books A Tale for the Time Being strangeness of the setting.”—Los Angeles Times Ruth Ozeki • 978-0-14-312487-0 • $16.00 • Jan Book Review The Crane Wife 2014 • Penguin • Probes the relationship between Patrick Ness • 978-1-59420-547-7 • $26.95 • writer and reader as it interweaves contemporary Moments Captured Feb 2014 • Penguin Press • A novel, based on a issues with a beguiling exploration of history, Robert Seidman • 978-1-4683-0838-9 • $16.95 Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of memory, and myth. • “Bewitching, intelligent, • March 2014 • Overlook • An historical novel a man is transformed when he rescues an hilarious, and heartbreaking, often on the same of art and technology with an intense love affair injured white crane. • “A perfect fusion of page…One of those novels that will renew your at its center, played out on a colorful America surreal imagery and beautifully crafted internal faith in literature.”—Juneot Díaz • “A timeless canvas. • “Engrossing…Seidman combines logic.”—Helen Brown, The Telegraph • “Ness ... story…Ozeki beautifully renders not only the brisk pacing and bold passions to dynamically has a rare ability to cut poignancy with devastation of the collision between man and illuminate a crucial chapter in America’s artistic humour.”—Michael Prodger, Financial Times the natural world, but also the often miraculous and technological history.”—Booklist • “The results of it.”—Alice Sebold allure and distinctiveness of the West resounds Everything I Never Told You clearly…it is a wonderful tribute: Muybridge is Celeste Ng • 978-1-59420-571-2 • $26.95 • July Down the Shore a hero of a California dream, his every misstep, 2014 • Penguin Press • A haunting debut novel Stan Parish • 978-0-670-01642-6 • $27.95 • in Seidman’s telling, inspired by love.”—New (from the winner of the Hopwood Award and June 2014 • Viking • Debut novel of reinvention, Republic the Pushcart Prize whose work has been friendship, and ambition • “It is the exceptional published in One Story, TriQuarterly, Bellevue coming-of-age novel that shows us the truth Ghana Must Go Literary Review, and the Kenyon Review not only about its hero’s maturation, but about Taiye Selasi • 978-0-14-312497-9 • $16.00 • Feb Online) about a mixed-race family living in the singular age into which he is maturing… 2014 • Penguin • A “buoyant” and “rapturous” 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be Parish’s debut is raw, elegant, incisive, and debut novel (The Wall Street Journal) about the their undoing or their salvation. above all, wise.”—Matthew Sharpe, author of transformative power of unconditional love. • You Were Wrong and Jamestown “An unforgettable voice on the page.”—The Pioneer Girl Economist • “Gorgeous. Reminiscent of Jhumpa Bich Minh Nguyen • 978-0-670-02509-1 • Alena Lahiri but with even greater warmth and $26.95 • Feb 2014 • Viking • From the PEN/ Rachel Pastan • 978-1-59463-247-1 • $27.95 • vibrancy.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Jerard Fund Award and an American Book Feb 2014 • Riverhead • In an inspired restaging Award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s of Daphne du Maurier’s classic Rebecca, a Dinner, comes a novel about a Vietnamese young curator finds herself haunted by the American family’s ties to The Little House on legacy of her predecessor at an art museum on the Prairie. • “Exceptional…funny, insightful, Cape Cod. • “Skillfully crafted…both an and literary, with lots to mull over after you put homage to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and it down.” —Chicago Tribune an insightful meditation on our obsessive preoccupation with death—simultaneously creepy and entrancing.”—John Irving
PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 5 Mary Coin WORLD FICTION The Invisible Book Marisa Silver • 978-0-142-18078-5 • $16.00 • Sergei Dovlatov • Translated by Diana Burgin March 2014 • Plume • Critically acclaimed and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor • 978-1- The Temporary Gentleman author takes Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant 4683-0885-3 • $16.95 • June 2014 • Overlook • Mother” photograph as inspiration for a Sebastian Barry • 978-0-670-02587-9 • $26.95 • An uproarious account of the foibles and reinvention—a story of two women, one May 2014 • Viking • From the two-time Man absurdities of Soviet literary life by a “brilliant famous and one forgotten, and of the Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture and breezy satirist” (The New York Times). remarkable legacy of their of their chance comes a new novel about Jack McNulty and his encounter. • “Extraordinarily compassionate love affair with Mai Kirwan, the great beauty of The Guts and wise…A poignant exploration of a single Sligo. The sixth book in Barry’s cycle of Roddy Doyle • 978-0-670-01643-3 • $27.95 • life that touches many others, and a powerful, separate yet interconnected novels that Feb 2014 • Viking • Jimmy Rabbitte of The moving portrait of America during the Great reimagine characters from his own family. Commitments returns in the new novel from the Booker Prize–winning author. • “There is Depression.”—Meghan O’Rourke, author of Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love The Long Goodbye• “Superb…Silver’s acute not a writer currently working in the English Sarah Butler • 978-0-14-312560-0 • $16.00 • observations and understated style are evident language who can match Doyle for the fluency July 2014 • Penguin • A heartbreaking and as are her matter-of-fact, unapologetic with which he tacks back and forth between the hopeful debut about the search for family and characters…mesmerizing.”—Library Journal hilarious and the heartbreaking.”—The New home • “Butler writes with the deftness and (starred review) York Times Book Review delicacy of a master storyteller, giving us a Wonderkid compassionate, achingly beautiful rendering of An Evening with Claire Wesley Stace • 978-1-4683-0801-3 • $26.95 • a father and daughter.”—Hillary Jordan, author Gaito Gazdanov • Translated with an March 2014 • Overlook • From the writer also of Mudbound Introduction by Jodi Daynard • 978-1-4683-0884-6 • $15.95 • June 2014 • known as singer-songwriter John Wesley The Childhood of Jesus Harding, an entertaining novel about the Overlook • Originally published in 1930, An J. M. Coetzee • 978-0-14-312576-1 • $ • July touring life of America’s unlikeliest rock stars. • Evening with Claire is a psychological novel that 2014 • Penguin • A major new novel from the “Highly pleasurable. And unusual, not least is at once an intimate and sensual account of a Nobel Prize–winning author of Disgrace, about because this is a rock and roll novel written by young man’s coming-of-age, and a tribute to a young boy in search of a mother whom he someone who actually knows what he’s talking the shattered dreams of the early twentieth does not remember, but who he will supposedly about.”—Peter Carey century. • “Daynard’s rendering of the tender, recognize once he sees her. • “At once lucid and nostalgic but unsentimental prose seems The Interestings elusive...The prose is clear and flat in the special flawless.”—The New York Times Book Review Meg Wolitzer • 978-1-59463-234-1 • $17.00 • way that Coetzee has perfected.”—David April 2014 • Riverhead • The New York Times Sexton, London Evening Standard (UK Revolution Baby Joanna Gruda • 978-1-60945-198-1 • $16.00 • bestselling novel about what becomes of early The Untold talent, and the roles that art, money, and envy May 2014 • Europa • A tale that is equal parts Courtney Collins • 978-0-399-16709-6 • $26.95 can play—even in close friendships. • Life Is Beautiful, Diary of Anne Frank, and The • June 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • With “Remarkable…Warm, all-American, and acutely Book Thief, Jureks’ story begins in Warsaw on shades of Water for Elephants and True Grit, a perceptive about the feelings and motivations the eve of the Second World War and ends in debut novel set in the Australian outback about of its characters…but it’s also stealthily, Paris after the liberation of the city. • “A beautiful, a female horse thief and her bid for freedom. • unassumingly, and undeniably a novel of subtle tale.”—Patricia Powers, Radio-Canada “This extraordinary novel—propelled by the dark, ideas…With this book [Wolitzer] has rich talents of a truly brilliant writer—dazzles, surpassed herself.”—The New York Times Book How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia staggers and amazes.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, Review Mohsin Hamid • 978-1-59463-233-4 • $16.00 • author of The Signature of All Things March 2014 • Riverhead • The bestselling, Land of Love and Drowning resoundingly acclaimed tale of a poor boy’s quest I, Hogarth Tiphanie Yanique • 978-1-59448-833-7 • $27.95 for wealth and modern love. • “A globalized Michael Dean • 978-1-4683-0822-8 • $16.95 • • July 2014 • Riverhead • A novel of love and version of The Great Gatsby…[Hamid’s] book is Feb 2014 • Overlook • The decadence and magic, set against the emergence of Saint nearly that good.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR • grittiness of eighteenth-century London comes Thomas into the modern world. • “This is a “Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his to life in this novel. • “Gritty, bawdy and story that feels ancient and modern at the same generation’s most inventive and gifted writers.” funny…Dean paints with words as Hogarth did time. Yanique is a prodigiously talented new —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times with his brush.”—The New York Times Book writer with a sharp voice, wicked humor, and Review • “A brilliant exercise in imagination compassion beyond measure.”—Tayari Jones, and storytelling.”—Kirkus (starred review) author of Silver Sparrow My Wish List Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein Grégoire Delacourt • Translated by Anthea Bell Dave Zeltserman • 978-1-4683-0821-1 • $14.95 • 978-0-14-312465-8 • $15.00 • April 2014 • • Jan 2014 • Overlook • “[An] imaginative and Penguin • Bestselling international grotesque novel from the revisionist phenomenon that asks, If you won the lottery, perspective of the monster…Zeltserman’s would you trade your life for the life of your monster is every bit as eloquent as Shelley’s.” dreams? • “[Delacourt has a] knack for finding —Booklist (starred review) exactly the right words and for evoking feeling.”—Le Nouvel Observateur • “An affecting story of a couple thrown into turmoil by their dreams and longings. A beautiful tale.”— Psychologies
PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 6 The Histories Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet Em and the Big Hoom Herodotus • Newly Translated by Tom Holland Amara Lakhous • 978-1-60945-188-2 • $15.00 • Jerry Pinto • 978-0-14-312476-4 • $16.00 • July • Introduction by Paul Cartledge April 2014 • Europa • This multiethnic mystery 2014 • Penguin • An accomplished literary • 978-0-670-02489-6 • $40.00 • May 2014 • pays homage to the cinematic tradition of the debut, this is the story of an Indian family Viking • One of Western history’s greatest commedia all’italiana as it probes the challenges struggling with their mother’s mental illness. • books and the very first work of non-fiction. • and joys of life in a newly multicultural society. “Beautiful…full of love, pain, and “The best English translation of Herodotus to • “Do we have an Italian Camus on our hands? unaccountably, much wild comedy. One of the have appeared in the past half-century...Fast, Just possibly…No recent Italian novel so very best books to come out of India in a long, funny, opinionated, clear and erudite...I am in elegantly and directly confronts the ‘new long time.”—Salman Rushdie • “This is a world awe of Tom Holland’s achievement, and have It a l y.’” — Philadelphia Inquirer of magnified and dark emotion. The anger is a no doubt it will bear rich fruit in bringing primal force, the sadness wild and raw. Against Herodotus to public attention.”—Times Literary A Delicate Truth this, the jokes are hilarious, reckless, free Supplement John le Carré • 978-0-14-312531-0 • $16.00 • falling….This is a rare, brilliant book.”—Kiran May 2014 • Penguin • Latest bestseller from the Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss In the Orchard, The Swallows internationally acclaimed author • “An elegant Peter Hobbs • 978-1-60945-183-7 • $15.00 • yet embittered indictment of extraordinary Honor Feb 2014 • Europa • Story of a man’s enduring rendition, American right-wing evangelical Elif Shafak • 978-0-14-312504-4 • $16.00 • belief in the purity of lost love. • “Achingly excess and the corporatization of warfare… March 2014 • Penguin • From the author of The moving…Hobbs makes beautiful writing look And le Carré has not lost his ability to sketch, Bastard of Istanbul, a family saga about an simple.”—The Independent on Sunday • “Hobbs in a line or two, an entire character.”—Dwight honor killing that shatters and transforms the strips his story to its essentials and, in doing so, Garner, The New York Times Magazine• “Le lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London. • creates a remarkably moving parable of the Carré further establishes himself as a master of “Shafak’s portrayal of Muslim cultures, both perennial conflict between love and power.”— a new, shockingly realistic kind of noir.”— traditional and globalizing, is as hopeful as it is The Sunday Times Booklist (starred review) politically sophisticated.”—The Guardian • “An extraordinarily skillfully crafted and ambitious Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream The Castle of Whispers narrative, with Shakespearean twists and Float Before He Stole My Ma Carole Martinez • Translated by Howard Curtis turns…Shafak joins writers such as Hanif Kerry Hudson • 978-0-14-312464-1 • $15.00 • • 978-1-60945-182-0 • $22.95 • Feb 2014 • Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali…who offer Feb 2014 • Penguin • A tragicomic story about Europa • A work of historical magical realism us fictional glimpses of London’s Others.”—The coming of age in a non-traditional family amid from one of France’s most successful new Independent the absurdities of the 1980s and Thatcherite authors. • “In Martinez’s lush prose, this period Britain. • “A witty and lively novel set somewhere novel appears astonishingly modern… The Ten Thousand Things between the worlds of Roddy Doyle and Irvine intoxicating.”—L’express John Spurling • 978-1-4683-0832-7 • $27.95 • Welsh.”—William Dalyrymple, The Guardian Apr 2014 • Overlook • From the author of The A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea Book of Liszts, the revelatory new novel of a The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly Dina Nayeri • 978-1-59463-232-7 • $17.00 • Jan brilliant painter swept up by war and upheaval, Sun-mi Hwang • Translated by Chi-Young Kim 2014 • Riverhead • A magical novel set in Iran, set in China on the cusp of the Ming Dynasty. • Illustrated by Nomoco • 978-0-14-312320-0 • about a girl who is saved from turmoil in Iran $15.00 • Jan 2014 • Penguin • Bestselling by her powerful imagination and obsession The Boat to Redemption modern fable from Korea • “An adroit allegory with Western culture. • “Ambitious…There’s a Su Tong • Translated by Howard Goldblatt • about life…in the vein of classics like kaleidoscopic quality to Nayeri’s prose, evoking 978-1-4683-0824-2 • $16.95 • March 2014 • Charlotte’s Web and Jonathan Livingston the best of Eastern storytelling, while its Overlook • A searing parable of exile by winner Seagull”—Kirkus • “Everything wonderful cadences remain resolutely American.”—The of the Man Asian Literary Prize and the author about the world is contained in this small gem Daily Mail • “What a tremendous gift [Nayeri] of Raise the Red Lantern. • “Remarkable, subtle, of a novel, which brims with dream-fulfilling offers us throughout the book, an opportunity and profound”—The New York Times adventures and the longing that underlies to connect with the richness of Iran, while love.”—Kyung-sook Shin, author of Please Look simultaneously enlarging our understanding of The Sound of Things Falling After Mom the human experience.”—Baltimore Times Juan Gabriel Vasquez • 978-1-59463-274-7 • $16.00 • June 2014 • Riverhead • A bestselling, Dreaming for Freud Boy, Snow, Bird prize-winning tour-de-force from an Sheila Kohler • 978-0-14-312519-8 • $16.00 • Helen Oyeyemi • 978-1-59463-139-9 • $27.95 • international literary star—an intimate June 2014 • Penguin • Award-winning author March 2014 • Riverhead • From the portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia. • “[A] reimagines one of Freud’s most famous and prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow brilliant new novel…gripping…absorbing right controversial cases. • “There is a territory—fic- White fairy tale recast as a story of family to the end.”—Edmund White, The New York tional and psychological—that Sheila Kohler secrets, race, beauty, and vanity, set in a small Times Book Review • “Languid existential noir, has now marked as her own. I am full of American town during the civil rights era. one that may put you in mind of Paul admiration.”—J. M. Coetzee Auster.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 7 Mrs. Hemingway Selected Stories of Jane Gardam DRAMA Naomi Wood • 978-0-14-312461-0 • $16.00 • Jane Gardam • 978-1-60945-199-8 • $17.00 • June 2014 • Penguin • Story of how it was to June 2014 • Europa • A collection of award- love, and be loved by, the most famous writer of winning stories from the writer of the Old Filth Really Really his generation. Told in four parts and trilogy • “Gardam is the best British writer Paul Downs Colaizzo • 978-1-4683-0807-5 • populated with members of the fabled “Lost you’ve never heard of.”—Maureen Corrigan, $14.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • A startlingly funny Generation,” Mrs. Hemingway interweaves the NPR • “Jane Gardam is a wonderful writer. Her play about a group of Generation Me college real-life love letters and telegrams of four very understanding of character and use of language students • “It’s Lord of the Flies with martphones… different women into one tale. are both remarkable.”—The Times Really Really is a take-no-prisoners indictment of the young men and women poised to inherit Chop Chop Redeployment the earth.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times Simon Wroe • 978-1-59420-579-8 • $26.95 • Phil Klay • 978-1-59420-499-9 • $26.95 • Sex with Strangers April 2014 • Penguin Press • A funny and March 2014 • Penguin Press • From a former original debut set in the fast-paced and Marine captain and Iraq veteran, who’s been Laura Eason • 978-1-4683-0874-7 • $14.95 • treacherous world of a restaurant kitchen. • compared to Joseph Heller and George Orwell, May 2014 • Overlook • When star sex blogger “Furiously funny, fast, surreal, brutal—Chop a hard-hitting collection focusing on the and memoirist Ethan tracks down his idol, the Chop puts a Dickensian supercharge into the complexities of life for soldiers on the front gifted but obscure older novelist Olivia, he behind-the-scenes goings on of a restaurant lines and after. • “[Klay] slips himself in under finds they each crave what the other possesses. kitchen.”—Anya von Bremzen, author of the skin of the war with a muscular language As they inch closer to getting what they want, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir and an agile heart and a fair amount of both must confront the dark side of ambition of Food and Longing complicated doubt…One of the great story and the near impossibility of reinventing oneself when the past is only a click away. • collections of recent times.”—Colum McCann “Savvy, funny, insightful.”—Chicago Sun-Times Invisible Love SHORT STORIES / ESSAYS Some Velvet Morning Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt • 978-1-60945-203-2 • Neil LaBute • 978-1-4683-0916-4 • $14.95 • / LETTERS $16.00 • July 2014 • Europa • New story May 2014 • Overlook • LaBute explores the collection by the author of The Most Beautiful nuances of gender relationships, creating a Book in the World. • “Schmitt’s stories capture a Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011 work of sharp and subtle contrasts in this quirky, clever, feminist, very French drama about obsession, desire, and the roles we Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee • 978-0-14- sensibility.”—Publishers Weekly • “Moral fables, play. • “Full of intelligent and witty twists and 312491-7 • $16.00 • March 2014 • Penguin • A gilded mini-legends: Schmitt’s stories are turns…Neil LaBute is a master of manipulative, three-year epistolary dialogue • “A civilized fiendishly efficient. Schmitt is a prodigious funny, and provocative wordplay.”—ScreenDaily discourse between two cultivated and story-teller with a style both elegant and sophisticated men…A pleasure to be in their assured.”—Les Echos company.”—The Washington Post • “A genial, Nikolai and the Others often riveting exchange. Amiable and revealing Last Stories and Other Stories Richard Nelson • 978-1-4683-0853-2 • $15.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • Nelson imagines the missives from two remarkable minds.”—Kirkus William T Vollmann • 978-0-670-01597-9 • relationships between Russian choreographer Reviews $36.00 • July 2014 • Viking • Supernaturally Balanchine and composer Stravinsky, their tinged stories from the author of the National A Guide to Being Born: Stories friends, lovers, wives and ex-wives, supporters, Book Award winner Europe Central. Ramona Ausubel • 978-1-59463-268-6 • $16.00 and dancers at the time of their historic • May 2014 • Riverhead • From the critically This Is Not an Accident collaboration on the ballet Orpheus. • “Nikolai acclaimed writer of No One is Here Except All of April Wilder • 978-0-670-02604-3 • $26.95 • sometimes summons both a sense of place and Us comes a new collection that uses the world Feb 2014 • Viking • From a truly distinctive displacement with such naturalness that you of the imagination to explore the heart of the voice brimming with wicked humor, tales of forget that you’re watching titans at play.”—Ben human condition. • “Each story in this the little disasters that befall and befuddle us. • Brantley, The New York Times collection finds a way to record the tensions “Dark and introspective…the characters here Without a Dowry and Other Plays between the corporeal and the invisible, the are all broken in some way, and all are very be- Alexander Ostrovsky • Translated with an forces that animate us but ultimately can’t be lievable. Wilder’s voice is crisp and contempo- Introduction by Norman Henley • 978-1-4683- dissected, our anti-anatomies.”—The New York rary, burying meaning in the depth of her char- 0858-7 • $14.95 • Feb 2014 • Overlook • Four Times Book Review acters’ thoughts and actions and leaving of Ostrovsky’s key plays—A Profitable Position, interpretation up to the reader.”—Booklist The Corpse Exhibition: An Ardent Heart, Without a Dowry, and Talents And Other Stories of Iraq and Admirers —rounded out by the translator’s Hassan Blasim • Translated by Jonathan Wright introduction, an afterword for each play, an • 978-0-14-312326-2 • $15.00 • Feb 2014 • extensive bibliography, and complete list of Penguin • An explosive new voice in fiction Ostrovsky’s works. emerges from Iraq in this blistering debut by “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” An Iliad (The Guardian). • “Blasim pitches everyday Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare • 978-1-4683- horror into something almost gothic….[His] 0808-2 • $14.95 • Jan 2014 • Overlook • taste for the surreal can be Gogol-like.”—The Adapted by Peterson and O’Hare from Robert Independent • “A master of metaphor…[His Fagles’ acclaimed translation, An Iliad work is] Bolano-esque in its visceral telescopes Homer’s Trojan War epic into a exuberance, and also Borgesian in its gnomic monologue that captures both the heroism and complexity.”—The Guardian horror of war.
PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 8 The Other Place WRITING / JOURNALISM Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations Sharr White • 978-1-4683-0872-3 • $14.95 • Jan / CRITICISM / REFERENCE with Today’s Top Comedy Writers 2014 • Overlook • Juliana is a successful Mike Sacks • 978-0-14-312378-1 • $18.00 • July neurologist whose life seems to be coming 2014 • Penguin • Top humor writers like Amy unhinged. Piece by piece, a mystery unfolds The Most Dangerous Book Poehler, Mel Brooks, Adam McKay, Michael and the elusive truth about Juliana boils to the Kevin Birmingham • 978-1-59420-336-7 • Schur, and Glen Charles—many of whom have surface. • “A haunting drama…Shattering.”— $29.95 • June 2014 • Penguin Press • The never before been interviewed at this length, or Variety • “White writes with great simplicity thrilling story of the writing and fifteen-year at all—offer insight into their influences and about a situation that defies discipline, defies fight to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses. creative processes, their self-doubt and neatness.”—New York magazine breakthroughs, and how they managed to Bulfinch’s Mythology succeed in the crazy business of comedy. The Snow Geese Thomas Bulfinch • 978-0-399-16922-9 • $19.95 Sharr White • 978-1-4683-0873-0 • $14.95 • Jan • June 2014 • Tarcher • This Cornerstone On Reading The Grapes of Wrath 2014 • Overlook • The Broadway hit about a Edition of Bulfinch’s Mythology offers readers an Susan Shillinglaw • 978-0-14-312550-1 • $14.00 family waking up from their own Gilded Age. easily portable, complete collection of all three • April 2014 • Penguin • Today’s foremost volumes—the only such edition of this beloved Steinbeck scholar writes an extended anthology currently available. meditation on the influence ofThe Grapes of Wrath, to commemorate the 75th anniversary SCIENCE FICTION / Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and of its first publication. FANTASY the Invention of The Great Gatsby Sarah Churchwell • 978-1-59420-474-6 • Artful $29.95 • Feb 2014 • Penguin Press • Tracing the Ali Smith • 978-0-14-312449-8 • $16.00 • Feb The Office of Mercy genesis of a masterpiece, a Fitzgerald scholar 2014 • Penguin • “A stimulating combination of Ariel Djanikian • 978-0-14-312437-5 • $16.00 • follows the novelist as he begins work on The literary criticism, essay, and fiction” (The New Feb 2014 • Penguin • A thrilling, post- Great Gatsby. • “Excellent….Prodigious Yorker) from the incomparable Ali Smith. • apocalyptic novel that weaves philosophy into a research and fierce affection illumine every “These brief, acrobatic lectures…perform spec- dystopian story of love and adventure. • “An remarkable page.”—Kirkus (starred review) • “A tacular feats of criticism. Each is as playful as it indisputable page turner with a surprise treasury of new material. Churchwell adds is powerful, as buoyant as it is brilliant.”—NPR ending…It’s hard to miss the echoes of Orwell considerably to our understanding of the early The Bohemians: Mark Twain and in Djanikian’s dark vision of both the past and 1920s, and how life for Fitzgerald played into the future.”—Michael Schaub, NPR the development of his art.”—Literary Review the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature The Flight of the Silvers Yours for Eternity: Ben Tarnoff • 978-1-59420-473-9 • $27.95 • Feb Daniel Price • 978-0-399-16498-9 • $26.95 • Love Story on Death Row 2014 • Penguin Press • From the author of A Feb 2014 • Blue Rider Press • A thrilling Damien Echols and Lorri Davis • 978-0-399- Counterfeiter’s Paradise: The Wicked Lives and genre-bending saga about six extraordinary 16619-8 • $27.95 • June 2014 • Blue Rider Press Surprising Adventures of Three Early American people whose fates become intertwined on an • An intimate look at the extraordinary love Moneymakers, a portrait of the birth of modern Earth far different from their own. story between Echols and Davis, who met and America and the western writers who gave married while Echols—author of the New York voice to its emerging identity. Archetype Times bestseller Life After Death—served nearly M. D. Waters • 978-0-14-218114-0 • $16.00 • eighteen years on death row. Into the Woods: July 2014 • Plume • In a future where women A Five Act Journey Into Story are a rare commodity, Emma fights for freedom Now Write! Science Fiction, John Yorke • 978-1-4683-0809-9 • $28.95 • but is held captive by the love of two men—one Fantasy and Horror March 2014 • Overlook • A useful guide to her husband, the other her worst enemy. If only Laurie Lamson • 978-0-399-16555-9 • $15.00 • dramatic writing, revealing how and why the she could remember which is which. • “Waters March 2014 • Tarcher • Features speculative elements of a great script are essentially the has given us that rare and wonderful action fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison, same, whether you’re writing the next heroine who possesses both nerve and Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Casablanca, The Wire, or Glengary Glen Ross. • emotional depth ... An enthralling debut that I Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone “A marvelous analysis of screenwriting”—Julian couldn’t put down.”—Richelle Mead and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many Fellowes, writer/creator of Downton Abbey • more. “Outrageously good and by far and away the best book of its kind I’ve ever read. I recognized so much truth in it. But more than that, I learned a great deal.”—Neil Cross, novelist, screenwriter, and creator of Luther
PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 9 MEMOIR / BIOGRAPHY / She Left Me the Gun: American Story: AUTOBIOGRAPHY My Mother’s Life Before Me A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Emma Brockes • 978-0-14-312536-5 • $16.00 • Doing Extraordinary Things July 2014 • Penguin • Story of a young woman Bob Dotson • 978-0-142-18076-1 • $16.00 • Home is a Roof Over a Pig: who reinvented herself so completely that her March 2014 • Plume • The host of theToday Show’s An American Family’s Journey to China previous life seemed to vanish, and of a popular segment shares his favorite stories of Aminta Arrington • 978-1-4683-0879-2 • daughter who transcends her mother’s fears ordinary Americans accomplishing extraordinary $17.95 • May 2014 • Overlook • Account of one and reclaims an abandoned past • “Vigorously things. • “These are remarkable and poignant all-American family’s new life in a small town unsentimental, deeply absorbing, and written stories that need to be told.”—Ken Burns in China. • “A fresh, illuminating look at con- with fierce wit, it is an unstinting look at what it temporary China.”—Booklist • “Her chronicle means to be innocent, at any stage of life, and Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, of their adventures with the language and with how obsessively we all seek and avoid the many Hair, and Post-Punk Rock, from the the local culture and characters presents inti- faces of truth.”—Andrew Solomon, author of Middle East to the Lower East Side mate glimpses of the profoundly different ide- Far From the Tree Rayya Elias • Introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert ology and philosophy that underlie the quotid- • 978-0-14-312505-1 • $16.00 • April 2014 • The Tooth Fairy ian Chinese experience—and of the essential Story about pursuing—not always by choice—a human kindness that can transcend those dif- Clifford Chase • 978-1-4683-0695-8 • $24.95 • life of extremes. • “Twisted, devastating…A ferences.”—National Geographic Traveler Feb 2014 • Overlook • An honest memoir of a classic, blood-stained love letter to bohemian man torn between isolation and connection. • NYC.”—Craig Marks • “Reads like Huck Finn The World Is a Carpet: “Riveting and deeply moving…Chase on heroin. . .Her story…is as American as they Four Seasons in an Afghan Village transforms sex and grief into exquisitely tuned come, including as it does immigration, addic- Anna Badkhen • 978-1-59463-267-9 • $16.00 • sentences, whose wit and concision magically tion and hard won deliverance. Through it all June 2014 • Riverhead • A portrait of a place neutralize loss.”—Wayne Koestenbaum Elias’s voice burns fire hot.”—Darcey Steinke and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, Flip: The Inside Story and war. • “Capture[s] the fatalistic ambience of Exodus of TV’s First Black Superstar a place where opium addiction is rampant, Deborah Feldman • 978-0-399-16277-0 • mobile phones are an impossible luxury and Kevin Cook • 978-0-142-18075-4 • $16.00 • $26.95 • April 2014 • Blue Rider Press • the Taliban lurk in the shadows.”—The New March 2014 • Plume • Drawing on interviews, Deborah Feldman, author of the explosive New York Times Book Review Cook delivers the inspiring story of Clerow York Times–bestselling memoir Unorthodox, “Flip” Wilson, a complex man who broke the returns with an extraordinary follow-up that The Ogallala Road: prime-time color barrier. • “Candid and traces her new life as an independent young A Memoir of Love and Reckoning entertaining…Cook’s fiercely honest biography woman and single mother, and her search for Julene Bair • 978-0-670-78604-6 • $26.95 • captures the tumultuous and winning an authentic and personal Jewish identity since March 2016 • Viking • A woman’s story of two personality of the man.”—Publishers Weekly rejecting her Hasidic roots. love affairs: one with a Kansas cowboy, the Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey other with her family’s High Plains farm and A Man Called Destruction: Through a Country’s Descent into Darkness the deep waters of the Ogallala Aquifer beneath The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From it. Updating the territory mapped by Jane Alfredo Corchado • 978-0-14-312553-2 • Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man Smiley, Pam Houston, and Terry Tempest $17.00 • June 2014 • Penguin • A crusading Holly George-Warren • 978-0-670-02563-3 • Williams, and with elements of Cheryl Strayed’s Mexican-American journalist searches for jus- $27.95 • March 2014 • Viking • The first Wild, The Ogallala Road tells a tale of the West tice and hope in an increasingly violent Mexico. biography of the influential musician and today and points us toward a new way to love • “A raw, real-life parable for the paradoxes of forebear of the indie-rock scene. Longtime both the land and one another. the Mexican-American experience. . . a riveting Chilton acquaintance George-Warren has and gut-wrenching read.”—Jon Lee Anderson, interviewed more than 100 bandmates, friends, A Long Way Home author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life and family members to flesh out a man who Saroo Brierley • 978-0-399-16928-1 • $26.95 • and The Fall of Baghdad presided over—and influenced—four decades June 2014 • Putnam • At the age of five, Saroo of American musical history, rendered here History Lessons: A Memoir of Madness, got lost on a train ride in India. Twenty-five with new perspective through the adventures of years later, after surviving the slums of Calcutta Memory, and the Brain a true iconoclast. and growing up half a world away in Australia, Clifton Crais • 978-1-4683-0368-1 • $25.95 • he used Google Earth to track down his village April 2014 • Overlook • An acclaimed scholar Run, Don’t Walk: The Curious and and his family. tackles his greatest historical puzzle yet—his Chaotic Life of a Physical Therapist Inside own abused past. Walter Reed Army Medical Center Adele Levine, P.T. • 978-1-58333-539-0 • $26.00 Astonished: A Story of Healing • Feb 2014 • Avery • M*A*S*H meets Scrubs in a and Finding Grace darkly funny and totally unique debut memoir. Beverly Donofrio • 978-0-14-312490-0 • $16.00 With a motley array of oddball characters, Run, • March 2014 • Penguin • Hoping to heal from Don’t Walk is a fascinating look into the hidden trauma, Donofrio turns to prayer while world of rehabilitating war amputees. journeying to five very different monasteries. • “Composed of brutal honesty, tenderness, and an aching love for God. I could not put it down.”—Sue Monk Kidd
PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 10 Dancing Fish and Ammonites Hippie Boy Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening Penelope Lively • 978-0-670-01655-6 • $26.95 • Ingrid Ricks • 978-0-425-27400-2 • $15.00 • Jan Carol Wall • 978-0-399-15798-1 • $25.95 • Feb 2014 • Viking • Traces the arc of the 2014 • Berkley • TheNew York Times bestselling March 2014 • Amy Einhorn Books • Driving bestselling and award-winning author’s life, memoir about growing up in a dysfunctional Miss Daisy meets The Last Lecture with a bit of stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to Mormon family • “A soft-spoken yet resounding The Middle Place in this true story of a unique boarding school in England to the sweeping reminder of the power plays tied to religion… friendship between a teacher and the intriguing social changes of Britain’s twentieth century. Ricks’ voice is true, and her prose has a poised Kenyan man who arrives to tend her yard. • She reflects on her early love of archeology, the confidence missing from the repertoires of “Wall’s suspenseful tale of human frailty and fragments of the ancients that have many established authors.”—Booklist courage is a marvel…Deeply personal, poetic, accompanied her journey. and brimming with humanity, this is a book of Dancing Through It: lasting grace.”—Steve Lopez, author of The Soloist Word for Word: A Memoir of Literature, My Journey in the Ballet Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia Jenifer Ringer • 978-0-670-02649-4 • $27.95 • The Lost Daughter Lilianna Lungina • Translated by Polly Gannon March 2014 • Viking • A behind-the-curtains Mary Williams • 978-0-142-18077-8 • $17.00 • and Ast A. Moore • 978-1-4683-0732-0 • look at the rarefied world of classical ballet Aprilil 2014 • Plume • A daughter of the Black $27.95 • July 2014 • A bestselling sensation in from a principal dancer at the New York City Panther movement tells her life story of being Russia, Word for Word is the story of a nation’s Ballet. Ringer takes us inside the dancer’s raised amid violence and near-poverty, adopted literary conscience—the history of the world, detailing a typical day, performance as a teenager by Jane Fonda, and finding her twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a preparation, and the extraordinary pressures way back home. • “[Williams is] a writer of single person. • “This memoir has left the that these athletes face. She shares exhilarating uncommon clarity and humor, and the arrival strongest impression on me of any book in the stories while also unflinchingly describing her of her memoir is cause for celebration.”—Dave past several years.”—Boris Akunin, author of personal struggles with eating disorders and Eggers The Winter Queen body image. Siegfried Sassoon: The Mockingbird Next Door The Faraway Nearby Soldier, Poet, Lover, Friend Marja Mills • 978-1-59420-519-4 • $27.95 • July Rebecca Solnit • 978-0-14-312549-5 • $16.00 • Jean Moorcroft Wilson • 978-1-4683-0852-5 • 2014 • Penguin Press • One journalist’s memoir May 2014 • Penguin • The exploration of the $40.00 • May 2014 • Overlook • The definitive, of her personal friendship with Harper Lee and forces that connect us and the way we tell our single-volume biography of the great WWI her sister, drawing on the extraordinary access stories blends memoir and essay in a tour de poet, published to coincide with the centennial they gave her to share the story of their lives. force of association. • “The product of a anniversary. remarkable mind at work, one able to weave a Autobiography magnificent number of threads into a single Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution: Morrissey • 978-0-399-17154-3 • $30.00 • Dec story”—Bookforum • “A masterpiece, about Voices from Tunis to Damascus 2013 • Putnam • Covers Morrissey’s life from nothing less than the story (the myth, the fairy Edited with a Preface by Layla Al-Zubaidi and his birth until the present day. • “Practically tale) we are living, about how we can step out Matthew Cassel • Translated by Georgina every paragraph has a line or two that demands of that story to become who we are, who we are Collins and Robin Moger • Introduction by to be read aloud to the mirror, tattooed on meant to be.”—Nick Flynn, author of The SaMarch Yazbek • 978-0-14-312515-0 • $17.00 foreheads, carved on tombstones.”—Rob Reenactments • Jan 2014 • Penguin • An English PEN Sheffield, Rolling Stone • “As I floated, Award–winning collection of personal unmoored, Morrissey would drop in a single The Bosnia List: testimony from participants in the Arab Spring. masterfully executed sentence. He’s a writer A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return • “Among the most moving, inspiring, and with a gift that he bends to bizarre use.”—Sasha Kenan Trebinčević and Susan Shapiro • revealing pieces of non-fiction we’ve come Frere-Jones, The New Yorker 978-0-14-312457-3 • $16.00 • March 2014 • across in some time.”—The National(U.A.E.) • Penguin • A young survivor of the Bosnian “These stories…are the brave first draft of The Still Point of the Turning World War returns to his homeland to confront the history….Their voices are honest and Emily Rapp • 978-0-14-312510-5 • $16.00 • people who betrayed his family. • “A searing compelling”—Wendell Steavenson March 2014 • Penguin • A mother’s experience memoir of war and peace from a young man raising a terminally ill child • “Intelligent, who sees through ancient rhetoric with • • • ferocious, grace-filled, gritty, astonishing”— stunning clarity.”—Tom Zoellner, author of A Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild • “Combines an Safeway in Arizona • “A mesmerizing tale of essayist’s willingness to lay herself bare on the war trauma and redemption to be found in page, a theologian’s search to plumb mysteries confronting it.”—Booklist of life, and a poet’s precision. The result is stunning.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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