The Girl Next Door

Literature & Fiction

RUTH RENDELL

Genre Fiction

Random House Publishers India Private Limited

A charmingly exuberant comic debut from an exciting new literary voice,  and a “quirky, hilarious, elegantly written farce” (The Daily Telegraph), The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe is the globetrotting story of a trickster from rural India and his adventure of a lifetime.  When the fakir—a professional con artist—arrives in Paris, he has just one goal: to get to Ikea. Armed with only a counterfeit hundred-euro note in the pocket of his silk trousers, he is confident that he has all he needs to thrive. But his plan goes horribly awry when he hides inside a wardrobe at the iconic Swedish retailer—the first in a series of accidents that will send him on a whirlwind tour across Europe. Pursued across the continent by a swindled taxi driver dead set on revenge, our fakir soon finds unlikely friends—from movie stars to illegal immigrants—in even unlikelier places. And, much to his own surprise, his heart begins to open to those around him as he comes to understand the universal desire to seek a better life in an often dangerous world.Channeling the manic energy of the Marx Brothers and the biting social commentary of Candide, Romain Puértolas has crafted an unforgettable comic romp around Europe that is propelled by laughter, love, and, ultimately, redemption. (Meatballs not included but highly recommended.)

The Extraordinary Journey of The Fakir Who Got Trapped in An Ikea Wardrobe*

Romain Puértolas

Journalism

Comics & Graphic Novels

Joe Sacco

Graphic Novels

A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookRiot“Powerful and electric. . . . A book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career.” —NPR   “This is a novel that will endure. . . . A novel whose adventurousness is at the level of its ethical register, its attempt . . .  to imagine the unimaginable.” —The Guardian (London)   “A tour de force of sheer verbal virtuosity, and a brilliant, celestially upsetting novel inspired by no less than a profound moral curiosity about human beings.” —Richard Ford   “Signature Amis at his most inventive. . . . It is precisely through such inspired and irreverent fluency that his dead-serious purpose is realized.” —The Washington Post “The Zone of Interest harrows in the true sense of the word, churning up our preconceptions and assumptions. It is a work of artistic courage, chilling comedy and incontestable moral seriousness.” —Financial Times “Heartbreaking. . . . [Amis is] a virtuosically vivid writer.” —The Atlantic   “His finest so far. . . . Astonishing. . . . A tragicomic moral blowtorch worthy of Swift.” —The Daily Beast“Compelling. . . . Harrowingly effective.” —Slate

The Zone of Interest

MARTIN AMIS

<p>History Keepers Nightship to China</p>

History Keepers Nightship To China

Children's Books

Damian Dibben

Action & Adventure

365 Days of Wonder

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R.J.Palacio

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Jacqueline Wilson Hobby Journal

JACQUELINE WILSON

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds.The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and with uncanny perception articulates the words and thoughts of a generation. Technically daring and evocative of Patrick McCabe and J.M. Synge, this novel of small-town life is witty, dark and sweetly poignant.Donal Ryan's brilliantly realized debut announces a stunning new voice in fiction.

The Spinning Heart

Ryan, Donal

In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country’s most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak’s much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.”Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an assault on the 1917 Revolution, so he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world. But in 1958, the CIA, which recognized that the Cold War was above all an ideological battle, published Doctor Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union where it was snapped up on the black market and passed surreptitiously from friend to friend. Pasternak, whose funeral in 1960 was attended by thousands of readers who stayed for hours in defiance of the watching KGB, launched the great Soviet tradition of the writer-dissident. With sole access to otherwise classified CIA files, the authors give us an irresistible portrait of the charming and passionate Pasternak and a twisting Cold War thriller that takes us back to a time when literature had power to shape the world.

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

Peter Finn,Petra Couvee

In 1984, simranjit singh mann resigned from the indian police service in protest of operation blue star, the indian army operation ordered by indira gandhi, then prime minister, that cleared the golden temple complex of sikh militants. Mann was subsequently charged, among other things, with conspiracy to assassinate prime minister indira gandhi. A passionate sikh whose radical beliefs were honed by his family, mann went underground and was apprehended while trying to flee the country. He spent five years in prison, after which all charges were dropped. Three decades after blue star, his daughter pavit kaur looks back on the years her father spent in prison. In this disarmingly honest and emotionally charged account, pavit kaur documents her father's hellish journey through the indian prison system. This is also a personal story and the story of a family during one of the most fraught times in india's history. Quote'a fascinating account of how operation blue star turned life for a prosperous sikh family into hell. The author, daughter of the controversial sikh politician simranjit singh mann, who spent five years in jail on a trumped-up charge of sedition, says, "bhindranwale shared an ideology with my father: a separate homeland for the sikhs"'-satish jacob, veteran journalist

Stolen Years - A Memoir of Simranjit Singh Mann's Imprisonment by Kaur, Pavit (2014) Hardcover

Pavit Kaur

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