Tagged: Riverhead Books

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokar­czuk

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokar­czuk

Trans­la­tor: Jen­nifer Croft The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In...

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

Translator: Jennifer Croft The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In...

Moth­er for Dinner by Shalom Aus­lan­der

Moth­er for Dinner by Shalom Aus­lan­der

Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother’s last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she...

Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander

Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander

Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother’s last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she...

The Plateau by Mag­gie Paxson

The Plateau by Mag­gie Paxson

In a remote pocket of Nazi-held France, ordinary people risked their lives to rescue many hundreds of strangers, mostly Jewish children. Was this a fluke of history, or something more? Anthropologist Maggie Paxson, certainties...

Fly Already by Etgar Keret

Fly Already by Etgar Keret

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don’t worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You’re a rich, lonely man...

Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen

Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen

In the seemingly idyllic town of Rundle Junction, Bennie and Walter are preparing to host the wedding of their eldest daughter Clem. A marriage ceremony at their beloved, rambling home should be the happiest...