Date: 2008 Author: Nam Le Melbourne-born Na Le, whose family escaped Vietnam on a boat, wants no part of the…

Date: 2006 Author: Daniel Alarcón Alarcón’s blood bond to his native Peru is at the heart of this deft first…

Date: 2008 Author: Shannon Burke About midway through Burke’s stunner about New York paramedics comes an image so ornery and…

Date: 1975 (1995) Author: James Salter What is this? A chronicle of a marriage? A story of how men and…

Date: 1993 (2005) Author: Amélie Nothomb, translated from the French by Andre Wilson Hard to avoid the obvious: this is…

Date: 2003 Author: Alan Lightman Lightman treads on thin ice here. A divorced, middle-aged teacher, Charles, facing the 30th reunion…

Date: 1973 (2005) Author: Pat Jordan At one point in the author’s excruciating minor league odyssey, a baseball game in…

Date: 2004 Author: Chang-Rae Lee There’s a good deal of Richard Ford in Lee’s latest novel. Jerry Battle, a retired…

Date: 2002 Author: Justin Cartwright South African James Kronk, a 47-year-old failed filmmaker, returns from London to attend to his…

Date: 2006 Author: Hans Eric Nossack, translated from the German by Joel Agee In late July 1943, an Allied aerial…

Date: 2007 Author: Jim Crace Crace’s tedious allegory imagines post-apocalypse America as a Luddite homestead cut in two by a…

Date: 2007 Author: Chuck Palahnuik Okay, then. A father (Chester Casey) comes to the big city from rural Middletown seeking…