PENGUIN GROUP (USA) new books new books for literature course use & adoption fall 2014 / spring 2015

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PENGUIN CLASSICS The Analects Les Miserables Confucius • Edited and Translated with an Victor Hugo • Translated with Notes by Introduction and Notes by Annping Chin • Christine Donougher • Introduction by Robert Jason and the Argonauts 978-0-14-310685-2 • $16.00 • Oct 2014 • One Tombs • Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki • Apollonius of Rhodes • Newly Translated by of the most influential books in history, in a new 978-0-14-310756-9 • $23.00 • Mar 2015 • Aaron Poochigian • Introduction and Notes by translation by one of the pre-eminent scholars Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • The first new Benjamin Acosta-Hughes • 978-0-14-310686-9 of Confucius. • “An incomparable new volume Penguin Classics translation in forty years of • $15.00 • Nov 2014 • The first new Penguin that combines a fresh and sympathetic translation Victor Hugo’s masterpiece. • “Donougher’s Classics translation of the Argonautica with a wonderfully readable annotation. It. . . translation is a magnificent achievement . . . . —the story of Jason and the Argonauts and their will unlock a whole new level of meaning for [B]rings the full flavour of one of the greatest search for the golden fleece—since the 1950s. English-language readers.”—Orville Schell, novels of the nineteenth century to new readers Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations in the twenty-first.”—William Doyle, Times The Poetics of Space and co-author of Wealth and Power: China’s Literary Supplement Gaston Bachelard • Foreword by Mark Z. Long March to the Twenty-First Century Danielewski • Introduction by Richard Kearney The Aspern Papers and Other Tales • 978-0-14-310752-1 • $17.00 • Jan 2015 • The Portable Emerson Henry James • Introduction and Notes by A rumination on the spaces we inhabit and the Ralph Waldo Emerson • Edited with an Michael Gorra • Edited by Philip Horne • dreams and memories that fill them, this Introduction by Jeffrey S. Cramer • 978-0-14- 978-0-14-138979-0 • $13.00 • Mar 2015 • A seminal work continues to be studied and 310746-0 • $20.00 • Jan 2015 • An updated, new selection of seven of Henry James’s short enjoyed by philosophers, architects, writers, comprehensive collection of representative stories exploring the relationship between art and literary theorists alike. • “He has a works by the founder of America’s intellectual and life, edited by Pulitzer Prize–nominated pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand tradition. • “[Emerson is] the one citizen of the James biographer Michael Gorra. on religion . . . He is a philosopher, with a New World fit to have his name uttered in the professional training in the sciences.”—The same breath with that of Plato.”—John Dewey Childhood New York Times Book Review Jona Oberski • Afterword by Jim Shepard • The Penguin Book of Witches Translated by Ralph Manheim • 978-0-14-310741-5 The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma Edited with an Introduction by Katherine • $14.00 • Dec 2014 • A classic of Holocaust Lima Barreto • Translated by Mark Carlyon • Howe • 978-0-14-310618-0 • $17.00 • Oct 2014 literature, Childhood is the true story of a four- Introduction by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz • • The Penguin Book of Witchesis a treasury of year-old boy’s experience in the Bergen-Belsen 978-0-14-139570-8 • $18.00 • Feb 2015 • historical accounts of accused witches that sheds concentration camp. • “A child sees the barbarities Policarpo Quaresma is a defender of all things light on the reality behind the legends. Bringing of an event such as the Holocaust not in terms of Brazilian, full of schemes to improve his to life stories from medieval Europe through race and politics, but in the way a Martian would beloved homeland. Yet somehow each of his colonial America, this volume provides a unique see them, as amazing and stupefying instances of ventures results in ridicule and disaster. tour through the darkest history of English and the cruelty of man. Jona Oberski conveys this North American witchcraft. • “An informative amazement in an unembroidered and memorable and engaging series of texts that Katherine Howe way.”—Thomas Keneally, author ofSchindler’s List introduces in a crisp and well-informed manner. The chronological breadth is unusual, but it allows us to grasp more fully the continuities that mark the history of witch-hunting on both sides of the Atlantic.”—David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School

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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) US FICTION

Sweet Thunder Ivan Doig • 978-1-59463-276-1 • $16.00 • Aug 2014 • Riverhead • A beloved character brings the power of the press to 1920s Butte, Montana. • “[A] stirring tale of greed, corruption, and the power of past sins . . . Doig’s attention to detail, both historical and concerning characters of his own creation, is as sharp as ever.”—Publishers Weekly • “[A] marvelously atmospheric portrait of the bygone newspaper trade and an engaging The Turnip Princess: and Other Newly POETRY cast of characters sketched with the author’s Discovered Fairy Tales customary vigor. . .welcome evidence that Doig, in his 70s, is more prolific and entertaining than Franz Xaver von Schonwerth • Edited with a ever.”—Kirkus Foreword by Erika Eichenseer • Translated Instant Winner Carrie Fountain • 978-0-14-312663-8 • $20.00 • with an Introduction and Commentaries by A Sister to Honor Oct 2014 • Penguin • The poems in Fountain’s Maria Tatar • Illustrated by Engelbert Suss • Lucy Ferriss • 978-0-425-27640-2 • $16.00 • Jan second collection take the form of prayers and 978-0-14-310742-2 • $16.00 • Mar 2015 • A 2015 • Berkley • Afia Satar is studious, modest, meditations chronicling the existential shifts just-discovered trove of fairy tales by a and devout. The young daughter of a brought on by parenthood, spiritual searching, contemporary of the Brothers Grimm—now landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia and the profound, often beguiling experience of for the first time in English. • “Schönwerth’s has enrolled in an American college with the being a self, inside a body, with a soul. tales have a compositional fierceness and dream of returning to her country as a doctor. energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the How to Be Drawn But when a photo surfaces online of Afia Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault.”—The holding hands with an American boy, she is New Yorker Terrance Hayes • 978-0-14-312688-1 • $20.00 • Apr 2015 • Penguin • A new collection of suddenly no longer safe—even from the family Devil on the Cross poetry by the National Book Award–winning that cherishes her. • “A Sister to Honor is a powerful exploration of faith, family, and the Ngugi wa Thiong’o • Introduction by author of Lighthead. In his fifth collection, deep cultural divides that threaten to destroy Binyavanga Wainaina • 978-0-14-310736-1 • Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are these in our modern world. Ferriss has written $16.00 • May 2015 • Wariinga moves from a seen. While many of these poems bear the a remarkable novel that strikes the perfect rural Kenyan town to Nairobi only to be clearest imprint yet of Hayes’s background as a balance between the global and the personal.”— exploited by her boss and later by a corrupt visual artist, they do not strive to describe art Ivy Pochoda, author of Visitation Street businessman. As she struggles to survive, so much as inhabit it. Wariinga realizes that her problems are Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy Redeployment symptoms of a larger societal malaise and that Phil Klay • 978-0-14-312682-9 • $16.00 • Feb much of the misfortune stems from the Joanna Klink • 978-0-14-312687-4 • $20.00 • Apr 2015 • Penguin • Joanna Klink has won 2015 • Penguin • Phil Klay’s Redeployment takes Western, capitalist influences on her country. • readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and “One of our century’s great novels.”—Tribune acclaim for poetry of bracing emotional intensity. The poems in Klink’s new collection Afghanistan, asking us to understand what The River Between offer a closely keyed meditation on being happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. • “Gritty, unsparing and Ngugi wa Thiong’o • Introduction by alone—on a self fighting its way out of fiercely observed, these stories leave us with a Uzodinma Iweala • 978-0-14-310749-1 • $15.00 isolation, toward connection with other people harrowing sense of the war in Iraq as it was • May 2015 • A legendary work of African and a vanishing world experienced, day by day, by individual literature by a Nobel Prize contender, this novel soldiers.”—The New York Times explores life in the mountains of Kenya during Blue Horses the early days of white settlement. Faced with a Mary Oliver • 978-1-59420-479-1 • $24.95 • Oct 2014 • Penguin Press • A new poetry I Am Radar choice between a new religion and their Reif Larsen • 978-1-59420-616-0 • $29.95 • Mar ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn collection from the New York Times bestselling poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In her 2015 • Penguin Press • In 1975, a black child between those who fear the unknown and named Radar Radmanovic is mysteriously born those who see beyond it. • “Unparalleled as a collection of new poems, Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, to white parents. Though Radar is raised in chronicler of elemental change.”—The suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes Guardian describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature. entangled with terrible events in Yugoslavia, Norway, Cambodia, the Congo, and beyond. The Second Sex Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers Michael Robbins • 978-0-14-312664-5 • $18.00 and scientists—who stage experimental art for • Oct 2014 • Penguin • The thirty-six new people suffering under war-time sieges—Radar poems in The Second Sex carry over the music, is forced to confront the true nature of his attitude, hilarity, and vulgarity of Robbins’ identity. acclaimed debut Alien vs. Predator, while also working deeper autobiographical and political veins.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 3 The Mathematician’s Shiva Stuart Rojstaczer • 978-0-14-312631-7 • $16.00 • Sep 2014 • Penguin • A comic bildungsroman of middle-age about mathematical discovery, family love and loss, and the Jewish Eastern European experience following the darkness of World War II and Stalinism. • “A brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters.”—Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here • “This funny, moving, perceptive look at one man’s relationship to his eccentric mother and the legacy of her On Such a Full Sea West of Sunset genius succeeds to the nth degree. Rojstaczer is Chang-rae Lee • 978-1-59463-289-1 • $16.00 • Stewart O’Nan • 978-0-670-78595-7 • $27.95 • a wise, warm-hearted, and wonderful new Dec 2014 • Riverhead • From the award-winning Jan 2015 • Viking • With flashbacks to key writer.”—Eric Puchner, author of Model Home author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered,a moments from Fitzgerald’s past, the story story of one woman’s legendary quest in a follows F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Friendswood shocking, future America. • “Lee has written an Hollywood as he falls in love with gossip Rene Steinke • 978-1-59463-251-8 • $27.95 • allegory of our current predicaments, and the columnist Sheilah Graham, begins work on The Aug 2014 • Riverhead • A novel about one narration, written in the collective voice...gives Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance tight-knit Texas community and the events that the novel the tone of a timeless and cautionary of family life. • “An achingly nuanced love story alter its residents’ lives forever. Steinke explores fable.”—Kirkus (starred review) and one of the best biographical novels to come what happens when families are trapped in the along in years.” —T.C. Boyle ambiguity of history’s missteps—when the Elmore Leonard: Four Novels of the actions of a few change the lives and well-being 1970s: Fifty-Two Pickup / Swag / Boy, Snow, Bird of many. • “Arresting, haunting, and Unknown Man No. 89 / The Switch Helen Oyeyemi • 978-1-59463-340-9 • $16.00 • heartbreaking . . . With lyrical and emotional Elmore Leonard • Edited by Gregg Sutter • 978- Mar 2015 • Riverhead • The widely acclaimed depth, with an empathy only the greatest 1-59853-305-7 • $35.00 • Sep 2014 • Library of novel that recasts the Snow White fairy tale as a writers possess, Steinke shines a light into the America • In one volume for the first time, four story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. shadows of the American spirit and doesn’t for early masterpieces by America’s greatest modern • “Riveting, brilliant and emotionally rich . . . a moment avert her gaze.”—David Grand, crime writer. • “A literary genius . . . The nearest this masterpiece engages the reader’s heart and author of Louse and Mount Terminus America has to a national writer.”—Martin Amis mind as it captures both the complexities of • “The Dickens of Detroit.”—Time Magazine racial and gender identity in the 20th century Prudence and the more intimate complexities of love in David Treuer • 978-1-59463-308-9 • $27.95 • In Paradise all its guises.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Feb 2015 • Riverhead • In 1942, Frankie Peter Matthiessen • 978-1-59463-352-2 • Washburn returns to his family’s rustic $16.00 • Feb 2015 • Riverhead • In Hall of Small Mammals Minnesota resort for one last visit before he Matthiessen’s final novel, he confronts the Thomas Pierce • 978-1-59463-252-5 • $27.95 • joins the war as a bombardier, headed for the legacy of evil, and our unquenchable desire to Jan 2015 • Riverhead • A wild, inventive ride of darkened skies over Europe. Awaiting him at wrest good from it. • “A deeply intelligent study a short story collection from a distinctive new the Pines are those he’s about to leave behind: of Holocaust remembrance…bleakly funny… American storyteller. • “Thomas Pierce has a his hovering mother; the distant father to [and] eloquent.”—The Wall Street Journal delicate, shaping presence in all these stories, whom he’s been a disappointment; the Indian which are sure to be talked about, admired, and caretaker who’s been more of a father to him The Good Lord Bird paraphrased nervously, because they take us than his own; and Billy, the childhood friend James McBride • 978-1-59463-278-5 • $16.00 • out of the comfort of our known world.”—Ann who over the years has become something Aug 2014 • Riverhead • Winner of the 2013 Beattie much more intimate. National Book Award for Fiction • From the author of The Color of Water comes a New York The Valley The Empty Chair: Two Novellas Times bestselling, tragically funny satire of a young John Renehan • 978-0-525-95486-6 • $26.95 • Bruce Wagner • 978-0-14-218123-2 • $17.00 • boy who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade— Mar 2015 • Dutton • Former US Army Third Jan 2015 • Plume • Composed of two and who must pass as a girl to survive. • “Mc- Infantry Division Captain John Renehan’s first companion novellas, The Empty Chair is a piece Bride...pulls off his portrait masterfully, like a novel is a portrait of a ragged fighting division of spiritual storytelling from an internationally modern-day Mark Twain: evoking sheer glee holding the most remote and dangerous acclaimed author. • “Lushly embroidered with with every page.”—The New York Times Book outpost in Afghanistan. • “A gripping, allusions to the Beat Generation . . . Wagner Review tightly-wound mystery as well as a sharply meditates on our fundamental cravings for observed look at the complex internal politics connections—both human and divine—and I Am Venus of the U.S. Army, the deterioration of men meanings—both personal and cosmic—with Barbara Mujica • 978-1-4683-0890-7 • $16.95 • tasked with too vague a mission and too little wit, compassion and a sharp eye for the lies we Aug 2014 • Overlook • The acclaimed author of support, and what happens when they trifle tell ourselves.”—Kirkus (starred review) the bestselling Frida reimagines the dramatic with the intricate power structures deep in the life and loves of the Baroque Spanish painter mountains of Afghanistan.” —Phil Klay, author Diego Velázquez. • “Mujica’s prose is vigorous of Redeployment and intense, and the story is paradoxically both dark and illuminating.”—Kirkus

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 WORLD FICTION Hiding in Plain Sight Gretel and the Dark Nuruddin Farah • 978-1-59463-336-2 • $27.95 Eliza Granville • 978-1-59463-255-6 • $27.95 • • Nov 2014 • Riverhead • From an acclaimed Oct 2014 • Riverhead • This debut weaves the At Night We Walk in Circles African writer, a novel about family, freedom, story of a doctor and his mysterious patient in Daniel Alarcón • 978-1-59463-283-9 • $16.00 • and loyalty. A new departure in theme and fin-de-siècle Vienna together with that of a Oct 2014 • Riverhead • The breakout book setting for “the most important African novelist young girl in Nazi Germany into a narrative from a prizewinning young writer about one to emerge in the past twenty-five years”(The about the power of stories. • “Granville man’s obsessive search to find the truth of New York Review of Books) Hiding in Plain masterfully entwines two richly layered and another man’s downfall. • “Consistently Sight, is an exploration of the tensions between compelling stories of two seemingly different compelling . . . Alarcón’s smoothly polished freedom and obligation, the ways gender and worlds… By turns beautiful and frightening, prose [is] flecked with wit and surprisingly sexual preference define us, and the unexpected magical and dark, this is a novel that will stay epigraphic phrases. . .with lines that knock the paths by which the political disrupts the with me for a long time to come.”—Jillian wind out of you.”—The Washington Post personal. Cantor, author of Margot

Give Me A Ticket to Childhood Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay The Last Banquet Nguyen Nhat Anh • Translated by Will Nay- Elena Ferrante • Translated by Ann Goldstein • Jonathan Grimwood • 978-1-60945-231-5 • thons • 978-1-4683-0959-1 • $22.95 • Oct 2014 978-1-60945-233-9 • $18.00 • Sep 2014 • $16.00 • Nov 2014 • Europa • An NPR Best • Overlook • In the tradition of The 100-Year- Europa • In the third Neapolitan novel, the two Book of the Year • Set against the backdrop of Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and girls whom readers first met inMy Brilliant the Enlightenment, the delectable decadence of Disappeared, the most popular book in Viet- Friend, have become women. • “[Ferrante’s] Versailles, and the French Revolution, The Last namese history—a novel about what we lose gritty, ruthlessly frank novels roar off the page Banquet is the tale of one man’s quest to know when we grow up. In English for the first time. with a barbed fury, like an attack that is also a the world through its many and marvelous defense . . . Imagine if Jane Austen got angry flavors. • “[The Last Banquet] may be read as a The Temporary Gentleman and you’ll have some idea of how explosive kind of social history of 18th-century France, Sebastian Barry • 978-0-14-312712-3 • $16.00 • these works are.”—John Freeman told in a style both sensuous and lean, both May 2015 • Penguin • Irishman Jack McNulty colorful and matter-of-fact.”—The Wall Street is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman Arctic Summer Journal whose commission in the British army in Damon Galgut • 978-1-60945-234-6 • $17.00 • World War II was never permanent. Sitting in Sep 2014 • Europa • A fictionalized biography The Honey Thief his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writ- of E.M. Forster that addresses both Forster’s Robert Hillman and Najaf Mazari • 978-0-14- ing the story of his life with desperate urgency. unforgiving childhood in England and the 312539-6 • $16.00 • Dec 2014 • Penguin • • “One of the best writers in the English lan- homosexuality he repressed throughout his life. Derived from the long oral tradition of guage….[Barry’s] soul-wrenching narratives storytelling in Afghanistan, this book presents and incantatory prose…are powerful canvases Billie a portrait of a people who triumph with of the human spirit.”—The Washington Post Anna Gavalda • 978-1-60945-249-0 • $15.00 • intelligence and humor over the oppressions of Apr 2015 • Europa • Anna Gavalda’s new novel political dictators and an unforgiving landscape Just Call Me a Superhero tells the story of Billie and Franck, who, as the through a series of lyrical tales set over the last Alina Bronsky • Translated by Tim Mohr • story opens, are trapped in a gorge in the 200 years. • “How good to see the enormously 978-1-60945-229-2 • $16.00 • Oct 2014 • Cevennes Mountains. With darkness rich vein of Afghan traditional story-telling Europa • Marek begins attending a support encroaching, Billie begins to tell stories from tapped rather than the usual catalogue of death group for young people with physical their lives in order to survive. In alternating and destruction we read of in the papers.”— disabilities. Dismissive of the other members of episodes, the novel moves between Saira Shah, Emmy-winning filmmaker of Death the group, Marek sees little connection between recollections of the two characters’ childhoods in Gaza and author of The Storyteller’s Daughter their misfortunes and his own. When a family and their dreadful predicament. crisis forces Marek to face his demons, group The Goatibex Constellation or no group, he is in dire need of support. But The Human Body Fazil Iskander • Translated by Helen the distance he has put between himself and Paolo Giordano • Translated by Anne Milano Burlingame • 978-1-4683-1075-7 • $16.00 • the others may be too great to bridge. Appel • 978-0-670-01564-1 • $27.95 • Oct 2014 Apr 2015 • Overlook • The Goatibex • Pamela Dorman Books • From the bestselling Constellation is the story of a young The Shadow of the Crescent Moon author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a newspaperman who returns to his native Fatima Bhutto • 978-1-59420-560-6 • $25.95 • novel about the journey from youth into Abkhazia and is soon caught up in the publicity Mar 2015 • Penguin Press • Long-listed for the manhood, about brotherhood and family, campaign for a newly produced farm Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction • Fatima about modern war and the wars we wage with animal—a cross between a goat and a West Bhutto’s debut novel takes place over the course ourselves. Caucasian tur. What follows is a vicious and of one morning in a small town in Pakistan as hilarious satire of the Soviet Union’s top-down individuals are pushed to make terrible choices. An Ordinary Story approach to agriculture, genetics…and just • “This spare propulsive novel makes a region Ivan Goncharov • Translated by Majorie T about everything else. rarely seen in contemporary fiction seem Hoover • 978-1-4683-1076-4 • $16.00 • Apr familiar, even intimate. Most notably, it 2015 • Overlook • The debut novel by the Rabbits and Boa Constrictors portrays love and war as twin antagonists in the author of Oblomov, An Ordinary Story Fazil Iskander • 978-1-4683-0970-6 • $16.95 • oldest of conflict zones, the family.” —Jeet describes the coming of age of Alexander Nov 2014 • Overlook • The remarkable political Thayil, author of Narcopolis Aduyev, who moves to Petersburg in search of allegory by one of Russia’s most beloved love and a career. Featuring a stage adaptation, writers—the Soviet answer to Animal Farm. this edition of An Ordinary Story will enhance Iskander tells the story of a struggle between Goncharov’s reputation as one of the legends of the manipulators and the manipulated as they Russian literary history. try to function in a failed utopia.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 5 A Brief History of Seven Killings The Republic of Imagination: Marlon James • 978-1-59448-600-5 • $28.95 • America in Three Books Oct 2014 • Riverhead • From the acclaimed Azar Nafisi • 978-0-670-02606-7 • $28.95 • Oct writer of The Book of Night Womencomes a 2014 • Viking • Blending memoir and polemic novel framed as a fictional oral history that with close readings of her favorite American explores the events and characters surrounding novels—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the attempted assassination of Bob Marley Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, during the political turmoil in Jamaica in the among others—Nafisi delivers a passionate late 1970s. • “This novel cracks open a world defense of the power of literature to liberate that needs to be known. It has epic reach and minds right here in America. achieves it. It’s scary and lyrically beautiful— you’ll want to read whole pages aloud to Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and strangers.”—Russell Banks Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair SHORT STORIES / ESSAYS Edited by David Friend • Introduction by In The City of Gold and Silver / LETTERS / LITERARY Graydon Carter • 978-1-59420-598-9 • $29.95 • Kenizé Mourad • 978-1-60945-227-8 • $17.00 • CRITICISM Nov 2014 • Penguin Press • In honor of the Oct 2014 • Europa • This is the little known 100th anniversary of Vanity Fair magazine, story of Begum Ham Mahal, queen of Awadh Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells and the “soul” of the Indian revolt against the There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: celebrates the publication’s astonishing early British. A freedom fighter, misunderstood Collected Nonfiction catalogue of writers, with works by Dorothy mother, illicit lover and intrepid war leader, she Saul Bellow • Edited by Benjamin Taylor • Parker, Noël Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, Jean risked everything only to face the greatest 978-0-670-01669-3 • $35.00 • Apr 2015 • Cocteau, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Edna St. betrayal of all. Viking • Arranged chronologically, this literary Vincent Millay, Sherwood Anderson, Robert time capsule displays the full extent of Bellow’s Benchley, Langston Hughes—and many others. There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved nonfiction, including criticism, interviews, Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: speeches, and other reflections, tracing his The Witch: And Other Tales Retold Three Novellas About Family career from his initial success as a novelist until Jean Thompson • 978-0-399-17058-4 • $25.95 • Ludmilla Petrushevskaya • Translated with an the end of his life. Oct 2014 • Blue Rider Press • In this new Introduction by Anna Summers • 978-0-14- collection, critically acclaimed author and 312166-4 • $16.00 • Nov 2014 • Penguin • A Discontent and its Civilizations: National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson follow up to the bestselling There Once Lived a Dispatches from Lahore, New York, takes the classic fairy tale and brings it into the Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby, and London modern age with stories that capture the magic these famous and controversial novellas Mohsin Hamid • 978-1-59463-365-2 • $27.95 • and horror in everyday life. • “Thompson established Petrushevskaya as one of the Mar 2015 • Riverhead • Hamid’s stories are at infuses her characters’ bizarre, terrifying, and greatest living Russian writers. once timeless and of-the-moment, and his instructive misadventures with hilarity and themes are universal: love, language, ambition, profundity.”—Booklist The Paying Guests power, corruption, religion, family, identity. Sarah Waters • 978-1-59463-311-9 • $28.95 • Here he explores this terrain from a different Sep 2014 • Riverhead • From the bestselling angle in essays that deftly counterpoise the author of The Little Strangerand Fingersmith, personal and the political, and are shot through THE SENSE OF STYLE an enthralling novel about a widow and her with the same passion, imagination, and daughter who take a young couple into their breathtaking shifts of perspective that gives his home in 1920s London. • “An exquisitely tuned fiction its unmistakable electric charge. exploration of class in post-Edwardian Britain . . . Waters is a master of pacing, and her City Beasts: Fourteen Short Stories of metaphor-laced prose is a delight. . .until the Uninvited Wildlife last page, the reader will have no idea what’s Mark Kurlansky • 978-1-59448-587-9 • $16.00 going to happen. Waters keeps getting better, if • Feb 2015 • Riverhead • All-new stories about that’s even possible after the sheer perfection of the urban worlds where animals and humans her earlier novels.”—Kirkus (starred review) fight, love, and find common ground, from the Frog nationally bestselling author of Cod and Salt. Kurlansky travels the worlds of animals and Mo Yan • Translated by Howard Goldblatt • their human counterparts, revealing moving 978-0-525-42798-8 • $27.95 • Jan 2015 • Viking and hilarious truths about our connected • China’s most revered and controversial existence. novelist returns with his first major publication The Sense of Style: The Thinking since winning the Nobel Prize. When Gugu’s Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st lover defects, her loyalty to the Party is Century questioned. She decides to prove her allegiance Steven Pinker • 978-0-670-02585-5 • $27.95 by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, • Oct 2014 • Viking • The bestselling keeping tabs on the number of children in the linguist and cognitive scientist applies his village, and performing abortions on women as wit and gift for explaining difficult ideas to many as eight months pregnant. the topic of writing, in a short and entertaining writing guide for the 21st century.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 6 SCI FI / FANTASY Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, That’s Not English: Britishisms, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a Americanisms, and What Our English New American Food Culture Says About Us The Slow Regard of Silent Things Dana Goodyear • 978-1-59463-287-7 • $16.00 • Erin Moore • Foreword by Lynne Truss • Patrick Rothfuss • 978-0-756-41043-8 • $18.95 Nov 2014 • Riverhead • Goodyear’s narrative 978-1-592-40885-6 • $25.95 • Apr 2015 • • Nov 2014 • DAW • Rothfuss brings us into debut is a look into the complex world of Gotham • In That’s Not English, the seemingly the world of one of Auri, one of The Kingkiller contemporary American food culture. At once superficial differences between British and Chronicle’s most enigmatic characters. Full of a behind-the-scenes adventure and a serious American English open the door to a deeper secrets and mysteries, The Slow Regard of Silent attempt to understand the implications of an exploration of a historic cultural divide. In each Things is a brief, bittersweet glimpse of Auri’s emergent new cuisine, it introduces a cast of of the thirty chapters, Erin Moore explains a life, a small adventure all her own. At once compelling and unexpected characters all of different word we use that says more about us joyous and haunting, this story offers a chance whom, along with today’s diners, are changing than we think. The result is a cultural history in to see the world through Auri’s eyes. And it the face of American eating. • “It is precisely miniature and an expatriate’s survival guide. gives the reader a chance to learn things that because I am not a foodie that I found such only Auri knows. immense pleasure in reading Dana Goodyear’s How to Disappear Completely: Anything That Moves. It was like reading Bruce On Modern Anorexia The Peripheral Chatwin on Patagonia or Ryszard Kapuscinski Kelsey Osgood • 978-1-4683-0949-2 • $16.95 • William Gibson • 978-0-399-15844-5 • $28.95 • on Ethiopia, maybe even Norman Mailer on Oct 2014 • Overlook • When Osgood was Nov 2015 • Putnam • Where Flynne and her war. I don’t want to be there, but I want to have hospitalized due to anorexia at fifteen, she brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug already been there.”—Newsweek found herself in an existential wormhole: how business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his can one suffer from something one has actively veteran’s benefits, for neural damage he suffered Blockade Diary: Under Siege in sought out? Unpacking the modern myths of from implants during his time in the USMC’s Leningrad, 1941-1942 anorexia as she chronicles her own elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Elena Kockina • Translated by Samuel C. rehabilitation, Osgood’s How to Disappear Burton has to go out, but there’s a job he’s Ramer • 978-1-4683-0969-0 • $16.95 • Nov Completely is a candid memoir that explores supposed to do—a job Flynne didn’t know he 2014 • Overlook • The haunting diary of a the physical, internal, and social ramifications had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells woman’s struggle and survival during the Siege of eating disorders. • “Astute . . . The clear-eyed her. The job seems to be simple: work a of Leningrad. Kochina‘s book takes us inside rigor of How to Disappear Completely is a perimeter around the image of a tower the horror to reveal the blockade in all of its refreshing corrective to hazy clichés of genius building. Little buglike things turn up. He’s totality. But it’s more than a catalogue of and madness and romance and rebellion that supposed to get in their way, edge them back. suffering and starvation:Blockade Diary is a cloud discussions of art and mental illness That’s all there is to it. He’s offering Flynne a testament to selfishness and moral collapse, but both.” —New York good price to take over for him. What she sees, also a tribute to generosity and courage. though, isn’t what Burton told her to expect. It Bulgakov: His Life And Work might be a game, but it might also be murder. Even This I Get to Experience Ellendea Proffer • 978-1-4683-0962-1 • $45.00 Norman Lear • 978-1-59420-572-9 • $32.95 • • Dec 2014 • Overlook • Finally back in print, Oct 2014 • Penguin Press • The dynamic and the definitive biography of the beloved author always controversial television producer shares of The Master and Margaritawhich features a WRITING / MEMOIR / fifty years of show business and politics, with dual emphasis on history and criticism. BIOGRAPHY / all the candor and wisdom expected from the Bulgakov captures both the spirited, AUTOBIOGRAPHY creator of All in the Family. idiosyncratic, haunted man who changed literary history and the exceptional body of A World Elsewhere: An American work that lives on long after his death. • “A full, Off the Radar: A Son’s Search for His Woman in Wartime Germany meticulous, welcome treatment.”—Kirkus Father, the Forgotten Iranian Hostage Sigrid MacRae • 978-0-670-01583-2 • $27.95 • Cyrus M. 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