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*** If you read The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul and enjoyed The
Beekeeper of Aleppo, you will love The Stationery Shop of Tehran
*** 1953, Tehran. In a small shop in a country on the brink of
unrest, two people meet for the very first time. Roya loves nothing
better than to while away the hours in the stationery shop run by
Mr Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink
bottles, and thick wads of writing paper, also carries translations
of literature from all over the world. Bahman, with his burning
passion for justice, is like no one else she has ever met. But all
around them, as their relationship blossoms, life in Tehran is
changing. Suddenly, shockingly, violence erupts: a coup d'etat that
forever changes their country's future, as well as their own.
Marjan Kamali's beautiful novel explores themes of love and loss,
and delivers an unforgettable ending. 'An enchanting romance' MY
WEEKLY 'Simultaneously briskly paced and deeply moving, this will
appeal to fans of Khaled Hosseini and should find a wide audience'
BOOKLIST 'Evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful... This
book broke my heart again and again' Whitney Scharer, author of THE
AGE OF LIGHT 'What a pleasure - a novel that is all at once
masterfully plotted, beautifully written, and populated by
characters who are arresting, lovable and so real' Elinor Lipman,
author of TURPENTINE LANE 'A beautiful and sensitive novel that I
loved from the first page' Alyson Richman, international
bestselling author of THE LOST WIFE 'A beautifully immersive tale
... brings to life a lost and complex world and the captivating
characters who once called it home' Jasmin Darznik, New York Times
bestselling author of THE GOOD DAUGHTER and SONG OF A CAPTIVE BIRD
'A sweeping romantic tale of thwarted love' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'The
unfurling stories... will stun readers... For those who enjoy
getting caught up in romance while discovering unfamiliar history
of another country' LIBRARY JOURNAL 'Grab your tissues' BOSTON
MAGAZINE 'A tender story of enduring love.' MINNEAPOLIS STAR
TRIBUNE 'I! Am! Obsessed! With! This! Book!' COSMOPOLITAN.COM
The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series
turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel,
a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged,
fractured world.
By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea
Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's
passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent
marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm.
When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between
Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household
management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come.
Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn
reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia's
responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing
cataclysm and turmoil.
As Tom marches to the front lines, and Kezia battles to keep her
ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters
and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort. Even Tom's
fellow soldiers in the trenches enter and find solace in the dream
world of Kezia's mouth-watering, albeit imaginary meals. But will
well-intended lies and self-deception be of use when they come face
to face with the enemy?
Published to coincide with the centennial of the Great War, The
Care and Management of Lies paints a poignant picture of love and
friendship strained by the pain of separation and the brutal chaos
of battle. Ultimately, it raises profound questions about conflict,
belief, and love that echo in our own time.
From Brandon Sanderson—author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth massive installment, Rhythm of War—comes a new hefty novella, Dawnshard. Taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, this tale (like Edgedancer before it) gives often-overshadowed characters their own chance to shine.
When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akina, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea.
Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Now Rysn's pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani's quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. If the crew cannot uncover the secrets of the hidden island city before the wrath of its ancient guardians falls upon them, the fate of Roshar and the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.
"A powerful and elegant debut novel about love, memory, exile, and
war."
One snowy December morning in an old European city, an American man
leaves his shabby hotel to meet a local woman who has agreed to
help him search for an apartment to rent. THE APARTMENT follows the
couple across a blurry, illogical, and frozen city into a past the
man is hoping to forget, and leaves them at the doorstep of an
uncertain future-their cityscape punctuated by the man's lingering
memories of time spent in Iraq and the life he abandoned in the
United States. Contained within the details of this day is a
complex meditation on America's relationship with the rest of the
world, an unflinching glimpse at the permanence of guilt and
despair, and an exploration into our desire to cure violence with
violence.
A novel about how our relationships to others-and most importantly
to ourselves-alters how we see the world, THE APARTMENT perfectly
captures the peculiarity and excitement of being a stranger in a
strange city. Written in an affecting and intimate tone that
gradually expands in scope, intensity, poetry, and drama, Greg
Baxter's clear-eyed first novel tells the intriguing story of these
two people on this single day. Both beguiling and raw in its
observations and language, THE APARTMENT is a crisp novel with
enormous range that offers profound and unexpected wisdom.
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