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<b>From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of<i> The Reluctant Fundamentalist </i>and <i>Exit West</i>, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change</b><br/><br/> One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover.<br/><br/> Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss wars with profound love.<br/><br/> As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance to see one another, face to face, anew.<br/><br/> <b>'A transformative tale . . . [<i>The Last White Man</i>] is compellingly readable and strangely musical, as if being recounted as a kind of folktale to future generations' <i>Guardian</i></b><br/><br/> <b>'With this big-hearted novel of ideas, Mohsin Hamid confronts challenging truths with insight, wisdom, and - above all else - limitless compassion' Tayari Jones, author of <i>An American Marriage<br/> </i></b><br/> <b>'Gorgeously crafted . . . <i>The Last White Man</i> concludes on a note of hope, a door jarred open just enough to let transcendence pour through' <i>O, the Oprah Magazine</i></b>

<b>'Affecting and engaging' COLM TOIBIN</b><br/><br/><b>'A wistful, witty meditation on a gay man's twilight years and the twilight of America' <i>Guardian</i></b><br/><br/>Out in the drought-struck backwaters of rural Florida, <i>The Kingdom of Sand</i>'s nameless narrator lives a life of semi-solitude, enjoying the odd, fleeting sexual encounter and the friendship of a few.<br/><br/>His world is ageing, and the memories of another time flash, then fade - visions of parties filled with handsome young men, the parents whom he chose to spend his life besides, the generation he once knew, struck down by AIDS. But, when forced to watch the slow demise of a close neighbour, he is drawn back to the here and now, and his own borrowed time in this kingdom of sand.<br/><br/><b>'Bracingly honest and wise' <i>The Times</i>, Books of the Year</b><br/><br/><b>'Both melancholy and hilarious' <i>New York Times</i></b>

A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as "mother." In the collection's longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his own suicide. In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates's standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfil herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has si

Relive the sensuality, the romance, and the drama of Fifty Shades Freed--the love story that enthralled millions of readers around the world--through the thoughts, reflections, and dreams of Christian Grey. Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele have tied the knot--but marriage brings its own challenges. Though their passion burns hotter and deeper than ever, Ana's defiant spirit continues to stir Christian's darkest fears and tests his need for control. As old rivalries and resentments endanger them both, one misjudgment threatens to tear them apart.

Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin's parents get to know Joe's firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals. As Yasmin dismantles her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she's also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a 'love marriage' actually means...

<b>A TIMES MAGAZINE, LITHUB, WHITE REVIEW BEST BOOK OF 2021</b><br/><br/>"The glorious love child of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY<br/><br/>The Life of the Mind opens with Dorothy sitting on a library toilet, checking her phone and examining the "thick, curdled knots of string" coming out of her body. No one but her boyfriend knows that she's had a miscarriage, not even her therapists-Dorothy has two of them.<br/><br/>An adjunct professor of English in New York City with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy's stuck, unable to envision the future or cut ties with the past. "What did you call it," she asks herself, "when a life stopped developing, but it didn't end?"<br/><br/>Christine Smallwood's debut is a campus novel like no other. Piercingly intelligent and darkly hilarious, it moves from a classroom to an underwater puppet show, from a conference in Las Vegas to a karaoke party. It is a discomforting glimpse into the head of a brilliant woman on the edge, it is a novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.