![]() ![]() Greenwell brings us a story of how our pasts and cultures, scars and shames, shape who we are and how we love.Ī New York Times Notable Book, Elkin plays with the idea of the flâneur, a quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world. Feelings of anguish lead the teacher to grapple with his own fraught history and childhood growing up in the South, where to be queer was to be a pariah. But this relationship treads fine lines between lust and mutual predation, tenderness and violence. Over the next few months, he continues returning to Mitko, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. One day an American teacher enters a public bathroom in Bulgaria. Greenwell’s debut novel is a story of desire and its consequences. This surreal and mystifying story of loss blurs reality and fantasy as we start to uncover Clare’s role in her husband’s death and reappearance, wading through this ghostly world. Van den Berg’s inventive novel feels dream-like, sweeping us up in its frightening but beautiful scope. Blending memoir, journalism, and history, Hansen brings us a moving reflection on America’s place in the world.Ī widow travels to Havana in an attempt to come to terms with her husband’s death and the truth about their marriage-but upon her arrival, Clare finds herself face to face with her husband. Over the course of her many years spent living in Turkey and traveling, she unearthed unsettling surprises about her own country and about herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, left her successful position as a journalist in New York to move to Istanbul in an attempt to understand the Muslim world. Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy HansenĪ finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, Hansen’s powerful story of self-discovery and revelation has been taking the literary world by storm. Financial Times called the book “a blazing experiment in auto-fiction that seamlessly amalgamates form and substance.” With its action stemming from vivid, precise encounters between the narrator and other people, the book unflinchingly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering. In Kudos, a woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface. In the powerful final installment of the Outline trilogy, Cusk continues to challenge our understanding of fiction. Their pages will take you from your favorite reading nook or park bench into new streets, experiences, and mindsets. In the meantime, we offer a list of books that will transport you with stories of traveling abroad-of characters flung far from home, of alienation, of searching for lost places, of seeking a change in perspective. As summer finally approaches and the sunshine beckons, it’s hard not to daydream of trading desk chairs for deck chairs or hopping on a plane for an adventurous escape. ![]()
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