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Child 44, Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central Publishing, cloth, $24.99)
In Stalin’s Soviet Union, it’s a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer–much less a serial killer–is in the midst of the populace. Exiled from his home, a war hero must find and stop a criminal that the State won’t admit even exists. 2008 Booker Prize Nominee
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Netherland , by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon Books, cloth, $23.95)
“Netherland” surely is: the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell.” Dwight Garner, The New York Times 2008 Booker Prize Nominee
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Indignation, Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Co., cloth, $26.00)
Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences.
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Never End, Ake Edwardson (Penguin, paper, $14.00)
Ake Edwardson brings American readers another installment of the smart, suspenseful, atmospheric series that has won him legions of fans all over the world.
