January 2017
APPY NE H W Y EA R ! BY LIBRARY COMMITTEE JA N UA RY 2017 ADULT FICTION Judas by Amos Oz Winner of the International Literature Prize At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is Amos Oz’s most powerful novel in decades. Re Jane by Patricia Park Journeying from Queens to Brooklyn to Seoul and back, this is a fresh, contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre and a poignant Korean American debut. For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s grocery store. Desperate for a new life, she’s thrilled to become the au pair for the Mazer-Farleys, two Brooklyn English professors and their adopted Chinese daughter. Moonglow by Michael Chabon From the Jewish slums of pre-war South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive. The North Water by Ian McGuire Longlisted for Man Booker Prize Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a whaler bound for the waters of the Arctic Circle.
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