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{"id":6815472353339,"title":"Our Endless Numbered Days","handle":"our-endless-numbered-days","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of Ian McEwan in the delicacy of its prose and the way that this is combined with some very dark undertones.\" — Desmond Elliott Prize Jury\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of \u003cem\u003eWinter’s Bone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Outlander\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1976 Peggy Hillcoat is eight. 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The brilliant ending, like the best endings do, casts new light on all that comes before it.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Our Endless Numbered Days is suspenseful, utterly riveting, and as dark as midnight in the forest.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRebecca Hunt, author of Everland and Mr. Chartwell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Rebecca Hunt, author of Everland and Mr. Chartwell","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“This young girl’s harrowing experience growing up in the wilderness and living only with her father establishes that what’s more terrifying than the perils of nature is being made captive by the ideals of one’s parents. 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Our Endless Numbered Days
A powerful and mysterious debut about a father and his eight-year-old daughter who abandon their family to live alone in the forest for nine years.
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The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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Haunting their recollections in one mysterious woman who, convinced of the box's good or evil powers, pursues it with deadly desperation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this mesmerizing, intricately constructed puzzle of a novel, Mandy-Suzanne Wong challenges our understanding of subject and objects, of cause and effect. Is it only humans who have agency? What is or isn't animate? 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Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a writer to watch.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Amina Cain, author of A Horse at Night and Indelicacy","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eMandy-Suzanne Wong’s bold, singular, and brilliant novel\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis so strange, so enigmatic, it’s nearly impossible to describe. In an unnamed city with unending snow, a tiny box falls from a stranger's pocket. From there the reader is bestowed with an array of different narrators and situations: art galleries, pawnshops, antiquarian bookshops. By turns funny and profound, \u003cem\u003eThe Box \u003c\/em\u003eis a feat of language and storytelling and, in the end, a revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Mark Haber, author of Saint Sebastian’s Abyss and Reinhardt’s Garden","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eIf one of César Aira’s sly, sophisticated fictions took a detour through Jane Bennett’s theory of vibrant matter, the result might look something like \u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e. At once a detective story, a meditation on art in the Anthropocene, and a speculative encounter with the liveliness of things, Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s startling novel is literature for our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Sofia Samatar, author of The White Mosque and Tender","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eWong's limpid, precise prose has a nineteenth century vibe, while her focus, an inanimate object, could not be more contemporary. Riveting and elegant, \u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e brings to mind Kazuo Ishiguro at his most enigmatic.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Daisy Rockwell, author of Taste, translator of Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eExplores themes of: mysterious forces; social collapse; climate change; the unreliability of memory; disconnection and loss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor fans of the Netflix series’ \u003cem\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKaleidoscope\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvance praise: “\u003cem\u003eThe Box\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary novel, gamesome and philosophical. Not since Borges have, I experienced fiction as a perfect maze or puzzle, endlessly pleasing. The reader enters it, fascinated, just as s\/he goes out into the snow, which is always falling. Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a writer to watch.” — Amina Cain, author of \u003cem\u003eA Horse at Night\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIndelicacy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eDelivers something rare, evoking a creepy sort of glamour around books and stories, as if craving a good read is itself sometimes a form of dark desire.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eA feast of knotty sentences … Fans of experimental fiction ought to check this out.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eWong displays formidable skill … drawing us into the highly wrought maze of her novel and making it fun.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eEndlessly creative and inventive ... 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The Box
A stylistically dazzling dystopian novel about things, people, and the forces and seams between them.
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Slim and None
Sports entrepreneur and film producer Howard Baldwin recounts his spirited and hugely entertaining life story.
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In her head, she goes over all the bits she’s packed. The list from New Dawn was detailed, extensive and expensive: two pairs of trousers, two T-shirts, a cap and two dress shirts (all khaki), then boots, running tekkies, trunks, towels, sheets, sleeping bag, tin plate, mug and bowl and a Bible (travel size). No mobiles but she won’t be the one to tell him. 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You Will Be Safe Here
A stunning debut novel about the legacies of abuse, redemption, and the strength of the human spirit, set in South Africa over two centuries.
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She, too, was often in the woods during the summer. She went there to listen to the cries of the wild animals and smell the pleasant aromas of the trees.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe would collect in an old tin can the resin secreted from the bark of the red firs and take it to her father, who would knead and mould it into hard little balls, useful for lighting the fire in the stove. Augusto, though, would always leave a little for Antonia, who used it to protect flowers or particularly beautiful insects from the ravages of time, thus adding them to her collection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut Antonia did not only collect resin. She also gathered wild strawberries, raspberries, and elderflowers, with which her mother made an excellent refreshing juice mixed with water from the river.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt was the big river down in the valley that was the favourite spot of the youngest of the De Boers. Often Sergio would walk through the wood that stretched to the east of Nevada and sit down on the edge of the cliff over the Brenta Valley, and from there look down and listen to the sound of the river as it descended towards Bassano del Grappa and then, further still, onto the Venetian Plain. Sergio was skinny and fair haired. He was never still, he was the one who spoke most of all of them, he was not quiet for a second. 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Soul of the Border
Soul of the Border is the first novel in a trilogy, following a young woman who seeks the truth behind her father’s disappearance.
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Now that the appropriate time had passed since my divorce, I should throw myself back into the dating world and write about what it was like to be dating over fifty. I could do internet dating. I could hire a matchmaker…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI cut her off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don’t think so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wasn’t ready to start dating. But most of all, I didn’t want to. I’d been in relationships for nearly thirty-five years. I’d even experienced the full relationship cycle — fall in love, get married, and get divorced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now I was supposed to do it all over again? Was engaging in the relationship cycle the only thing I could do with my life? I thought about that good old definition of crazy: Doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was time to put an end to the cycle. 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The protagonist, Candace, is a recently divorced writer who trades her Manhattan life for a cottage in the Hamptons . . . [Is There Still Sex in the City? is] brimming with the snappy rhetorical questions and taxonomic acronyms that became Bushnell's signature back in the stiletto days . . . While Carrie was a bright-eyed anthropologist, Candace and her friends are survivalists; even beyond the City, it's a jungle out there.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Vogue","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Sometimes it can be fun to wonder what became of our fictional heroines . . . what of Carrie Bradshaw? After she bagged her Mr. Big, did she list her $40,000 shoe collection on eBay, move to the suburbs, have a bunch of kids, and grow old gracefully? Or did Carrie find herself in her fifties child-free, single again, and wondering how to get back in the game, only to have her gynecologist recommend a Mona Lisa laser treatment because ‘your vagina is not flexible enough’? Ugh. Such are the humiliations awaiting the female in middle age. That you-gotta-laugh-or-you-cry place is where Candace Bushnell, with her usual sparkling candor, begins Is There Still Sex in the City?.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“The book captures the buoyancy of the writer’s brand . . . As with the show, there’s a lot to relish. Bushnell’s portrayals of the women in her circle somehow feel both forgiving and clinical, with an anthropologist’s matter-of-factness . . . Bushnell wrestles smartly with the theme of aging, with how being a ‘fiftysomething’ woman is different from being a ‘thirtysomething’ woman . . . This Bushnell writes most gracefully about topics that are not sex and dating . . . The city is big, Bushnell implies, but not endless. The sex never left it. But was sex ever really the point?” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Bushnell’s voice is as knowing and sharp as ever . . . As with SATC’s ‘toxic bachelors’ and ‘modelizers,’ there’s a new taxonomy: ‘Cubbing,’ the pursuit of older women by younger men; or ‘MAM,’ for middle-aged madness, a late-onset midlife crisis for women. 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Bushnell also touches on poignant aspects of what she calls ‘middle-aged madness’: the death of a parent, the isolation of divorce, the ache of realizing that even the most gorgeous among us will eventually become invisible.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Time Magazine","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“As she did in her bestselling Sex in the City, Bushnell examines her own and her friends’ experiences with dry wit, delivering sharp social observations about the trials and piquant pleasures of looking for love at a certain age.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"People Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“It’s hard out there for a cougar. But for Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, it’s exactly the age when women need her the most. Her latest book addresses . . . women in their fifties and sixties who suddenly find themselves dating again. As with its predecessor, there is no shortage of catchphrase-worthy sentiments.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Entertainment Weekly","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“What comes after cosmos and toxic bachelors? 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Is There Still Sex in the City?
Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, delivers a highly entertaining book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.
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The Farmer's Daughter
The Farmer's Daughter comprises three witty, memorable portraits of decidedly unconventional lives.
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When the Doves Disappeared
A chillingly suspenseful new novel that opens up a little-known chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia.
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The Butcher's Hook
Anne Jaccob, a nineteen-year old daughter of a wealthy merchant falls in love with Fub, the butcher’s son — an imperfect match.
