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Troy, Unincorporated
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 18.00A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in Troy, Unincorporated offer a retelling, or refraction, of Chaucer’s tragedy Troilus and Criseyde . The tale’s unrooted characters now find themselves adrift in the industrialized farmlands, strip malls, and half-tenanted... more...
The End of Everything
Little, Brown and Company 2011; US$ 10.99Thirteen-year old Lizzie Hood and her next door neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable. They are best friends who swap bathing suits and field-hockey sticks, and share everything that's happened to them. Together they live in the shadow of Evie's glamorous older sister Dusty, who provides a window on the exotic, intoxicating possibilities of their own... more...
Alibis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 15.99A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations... more...
Death and the Running Patterer
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 15.001828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage? Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South Wales as a running patterer, spreading the news... more...
A Mermaid's Tale
Greystone Books 2009; US$ 14.95From the seas of antiquity to the city streets of today, A Mermaid's Tale explores the myth and meanings of the mermaid. Beginning with Melusina, the bathing mermaid par excellence, Amanda Adams goes on to describe the seductive sirens and their honeyed songs, the powerful Arctic sea goddess Sedna, and the long-haired rusalki or Russian lore,... more...
Hipster Haiku
Crown Publishing Group 2006; US$ 9.95O, hipster nation: The dive bars, the vintage duds? Great material. more...
Stunning and Other Plays
Theatre Communications Group 2011; US$ 17.95The first collection by a striking new voice in the American theater. more...
Fishing for Light
Wings Press 2010; US$ 9.95The fourth title in the Wings Press Whitebird Chapbook Series. Margaret Randall wrote of this book: Marian Aitches fishes for light in rivers, and rivers run through these poems. She fishes back through family history, dream, certitude, and over the south Texas landscape of her childhood. A poet who can write ?A thousand years away, / I will be the... more...
Possess Me
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 15.00Three exciting new paranormal erotic novellas set in New Orleans, with a voodoo twist that's "pure magic". (Eden Bradley) In the Big Easy, there's a legend women long for: a sexual voodoo spirit who can fulfill their darkest fantasies. And in these three steaming-hot novellas, he helps three New Orleans couples achieve the ultimate satisfaction...... more...
Bright Felon
Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 9.99Eloquent intercultural coming-of-age story more...









