Stuart Nadler

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Kate Folk |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Stuart Nadler |Boris Fishman

Kate Folk. Random House, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-23149-4Folk (Out There, a story collection) fuses Moby-Dick with J.G. Ballard’s Crash for a blistering debut novel about a woman’s sexual and mortal obsession with airplanes. “Call me Linda,” begins the narrator, who rides the AirTrain around San Francisco’s airport to lust after fuselage and marvel at wingspans when she’s not busy toiling as a content moderator for a social media platform.

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Pedro Almodóvar |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Stuart Nadler |Boris Fishman

Anthony Passeron, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-61226-9In Passeron’s beautiful and sorrowful debut autofiction, he attempts to end his family’s silence over a relative’s death from AIDS decades earlier. Passeron grew up rarely hearing the name of his father’s brother Désiré, who died a few years after Passeron was born. Now, after his paternal grandparents have died, he seeks to recover Désiré’s story.

Jan 24, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Jonathan Coe |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Stuart Nadler |Boris Fishman

Jonathan Coe. Europa, $18 trade paper (368p) ISBN 979-8-88966-091-0Coe’s delectable whodunit (after Bournville) combines shadowy right-wing politics and literary intrigue. It’s 2022 and British magazine editor Christopher Swann is on the verge of exposing a right-wing think tank’s plot against the National Health Service. After conservative prime minister Liz Truss is sworn in, the think tank holds a conference in an English country house, which Swann attends.

Dec 8, 2024 | lesen.de | Stuart Nadler |Richard Ford |Ali Smith |Christopher Isherwood

In the summer of 1938, Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi-occupied Austria to London. She leaves behind her parents, Fania and Arnold, and her baby brother Moses. She is the only member of her family to survive. In 1966 Fania is working as a massage therapist in Montreal, a country that provided her safe haven after she lost her entire family in the second world war. And yet there are strange echoes, impressions, of those she loves everwhere she turns.