Muriel Barbery

Feb 21, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Muriel Barbery |Callum McLaughlin

BookBrowse: A poignant rumination on the love of an absent father, and his longing to share the beauty of his homeland with the daughter he's never met. Set during multiple decades across the turn of the 21st century, One Hour of Fervor follows Haru, a Japanese art dealer who becomes obsessed with the daughter he is forbidden to meet.

Jan 10, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Balsam Karam |Katya Apekina |Allison Pataki |Muriel Barbery

Eliza Barry Callahan. Catapult, $24 (176p) ISBN 978-1-64622-213-1Callahan debuts with a magnificent stream-of-consciousness narrative portraying a young New York City artist as her hearing deteriorates. The unnamed narrator wakes one August morning to a droning in her right ear that causes everything to sound distorted. After a hearing test, she is diagnosed with sudden deafness and referred to a series of specialists.

Jan 8, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Balsam Karam |Katya Apekina |Allison Pataki |Muriel Barbery

Parul Kapur. Univ. of Nebraska, $26.95 (362p) ISBN 978-1-49623-678-4In Kapur’s stunning debut novel, twin sisters Jaya and Kamlesh Malhotra dare to pursue their creative ambitions in 1950s Bombay (present-day Mumbai) despite the threat of ruining their family’s reputation and their chances of securing good marriages.

Jan 3, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Balsam Karam |Katya Apekina |Allison Pataki |Muriel Barbery

Mark Cecil. Pantheon, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-47116-6Cecil’s boisterous debut functions as both origin story and revisionist portrayal of American folk heroes Paul Bunyan and John Henry. Saddled with debt, Bunyan toils somewhere out west in the mines of Lump Town in what feels like the late 19th century, unearthing the energy source known as Lump.

Sep 15, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Balsam Karam |Katya Apekina |Allison Pataki |Muriel Barbery

Temim Fruchter. Grove, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6128-4Fruchter debuts with a wondrous intergenerational story of queerness and Jewish folklore. Shiva Margolin, 31 and reeling from her father’s recent death, wants to know more about her family, particularly her enigmatic maternal grandmother, Syl, and great-grandmother Mira. Both have long since died, and her mother, Hannah, refuses to talk about them.