Վեպի իրադարձությունները ծավալվում են ապագայում, երբ ամերիկյան հասարակության մեջ իշխող մտայնությամբ գրքերը մարդկանց դժբախտության աղբյուր են, և դրանք անխնա կրակի պետք է մատնել: Թաքստոցներում պահվող փոքրաթիվ գրքերը հայտնաբերվում ու հրապարակայնորեն ոչնչացվում են հատուկ այդ աշխատանքի համար ստեղծված հրկիզողների ջոկատի կողմից: Հրկիզող Գայ Մոնթագն ու նրա կինը՝ Միլդրեդը, ապրում են ժամանցի ու զվարճանքի, հեռուստատեսությամբ քարոզվող սնամեջ հարաբերությունների թմբիրի մեջ մինչ այն պահը, երբ Մոնթագը որոշում է փրկել ու կարդալ գրքերը: Փախուստն անհոգի ու անմիտ իրականությունից մտածելու սովորույթին վերադառնալու միակ ճանապարհն է: Մոնթագը լքում է քաղաքը, որտեղ արդեն իսկ պատերազմ է սկսվել: Գետը նրան տանում է դեպի երկրի խորքը, որտեղ նրան դիմավորում են «գիրք–մարդիկ»:

Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women, Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute “paper bullets”—wicked insults against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive fictional dialogues designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home on the British Channel Island of Jersey. Devising their own PSYOPS campaign, they slipped their notes into soldier’s pockets or tucked them inside newsstand magazines. Hunted by the secret field police, Lucy and Suzanne were finally betrayed in 1944, when the Germans imprisoned them, and tried them in a court martial, sentencing them to death for their actions. Ultimately they survived, but even in jail, they continued to fight the Nazis by reaching out to other prisoners and spreading a message of hope. Better remembered today by their artist names, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, the couple’s actions were even more courageous because of who they were: lesbian partners known for cross-dressing and creating the kind of gender-bending work that the Nazis would come to call “degenerate art.” In addition, Lucy was half Jewish, and they had communist affiliations in Paris, where they attended political rallies with Surrealists and socialized with artists like Gertrude Stein. Paper Bullets is a compelling World War II story that has not been told before, about the galvanizing power of art, and of resistance.

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.

Վեպի իրադարձությունները ծավալվում են ապագայում, երբ ամերիկյան հասարակության մեջ իշխող մտայնությամբ գրքերը մարդկանց դժբախտության աղբյուր են, և դրանք անխնա կրակի պետք է մատնել: Թաքստոցներում պահվող փոքրաթիվ գրքերը հայտնաբերվում ու հրապարակայնորեն ոչնչացվում են հատուկ այդ աշխատանքի համար ստեղծված հրկիզողների ջոկատի կողմից: Հրկիզող Գայ Մոնթագն ու նրա կինը՝ Միլդրեդը, ապրում են ժամանցի ու զվարճանքի, հեռուստատեսությամբ քարոզվող սնամեջ հարաբերությունների թմբիրի մեջ մինչ այն պահը, երբ Մոնթագը որոշում է փրկել ու կարդալ գրքերը: Փախուստն անհոգի ու անմիտ իրականությունից մտածելու սովորույթին վերադառնալու միակ ճանապարհն է: Մոնթագը լքում է քաղաքը, որտեղ արդեն իսկ պատերազմ է սկսվել: Գետը նրան տանում է դեպի երկրի խորքը, որտեղ նրան դիմավորում են «գիրք–մարդիկ»:

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.

A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.