Author: Kim Echli
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Keywords: disappeared
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-12-29
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802170668
ISBN-13: 9780802170668

After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia’s killing fields.Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she falls in love with Serey, a gentle rebel and exiled musician. She’s still only 16 when he leaves her in their Montreal flat to return to Cambodia And, after a decade without word, she abandons everything to search for him in the bars of Phnom Penh, a city traumatized by the Khmer Rouge slaughter. Against all odds the lovers are reunited,

Author: Leila Aboulela
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Keywords: translator
Number of Pages: 203
Published: 2006-09-14
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802170269
ISBN-13: 9780802170262

American readers were introduced to the award-winning Sudanese author Leila Aboulela with Minaret, a delicate tale of a privileged young African Muslim woman adjusting to her new life as a maid in London. Now, for the first time in North America, we step back to her extraordinarily assured debut about a widowed Muslim mother living in Aberdeen who falls in love with a Scottish secular academic. Sammar is a Sudanese widow working as an Arabic translator at a Scottish university. Since the sudden death of her husband, her young son has gone to live with family in Khartoum, leaving Sammar alone i

Author: Jonathan Ame
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Keywords: essays, love
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-12-16
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 080217017X
ISBN-13: 9780802170170

Jonathan Ames has drawn comparisons across the literary spectrum, from David Sedaris to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Woody Allen to P.G. Wodehouse, and his books, as well as his abilities as a performer, have made him a favorite on the Late Show with David Letterman. Whether he’s chasing deranged cockroaches around his apartment, kissing a beautiful actress on the set of an avant-garde film, finding himself stuck perilously on top of a fence in Memphis in the middle of the night, or provoking fights with huge German men, Jonathan Ames has an uncanny knack for getting himself into outlandish si

Author: Gabrielle Zevi
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Keywords: hole
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-03-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802119239
ISBN-13: 9780802119230

Author: Michael Thomas
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Keywords: novel, man
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-12-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802170293
ISBN-13: 9780802170293

One of "The 10 Best Books of 2007"--The New York Times Book Review Evoking the work of great American masters such as Ralph Ellison, but distinctly original, Michael Thomas’ first novel is a beautifully written, insightful, and devastating account of a young black father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. On the eve of the unnamed narrator’s thirty-fifth birthday, he finds himself broke, estranged from his white Boston Brahmin wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend’s six-year-old child. With only four days b

Author: Dennis Cooper
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Keywords: god
Number of Pages: 163
Published: 2005-07-10
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802170110
ISBN-13: 9780802170118

Dennis Cooper’s sparely crafted novels have earned him an international reputation-even as his subject matter has made him a controversial figure. God Jr. is a stunningly accomplished new novel that marks a new phase in Cooper’s noteworthy career. God Jr. is the story of Jim, a father who survived the car crash that killed his teenage son Tommy. Tommy was distant, transfixed by video games and pop culture, and a mystery to the man who raised him. Now, disabled by the accident, yearning somehow to absolve his own guilt over the crash, Jim becomes obsessed with a mysterious building

Author: Tricia Wastvedt
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Keywords: river
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-04-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802170072
ISBN-13: 9780802170071

Tricia Wastvedt’s debut novel, met with critical acclaim in England, is a hypnotically readable portrait of a community scarred, but eventually reawakened, by its grief. Two children drown during the summer of 1958 in the English village of Cameldip. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are bound together in guilt and anger, and as the years pass, the tragedy weaves itself into the invisible fabric of village life. Robert, finding solace in labor, builds several tree houses that transform the look of the town, and as the years pass the structures grow entwined with other houses. It is thir