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s imoN lel iCThe FacilityIn a near-future dystopian Britain, police use anti-terrorism laws to “disappear” people, but when Arthur Priestley is arrested, his estranged wife and a brave but naive journal-ist embark on a quest for truth. Well-crafted, fast-paced, and compelling, this brilliant thriller resonates eerily with the timbre of our times.“With his fragile, sympathetic characters, Lelic has the same ability to make us look at the society we’re creating as John le Carré.”—The Independent (UK)“Timely….Kafka meets Orwell in contemporary England.”—The Herald ScotlandPeNgUIN PAPerbAck 252 PP. 978-0-14-312068-1 $15.00

Zad ie smiThNWSmith’s brilliant tragi-comic novel follows four characters as they try to make new lives beyond their impoverished childhood neighborhood. Their London is today’s ever-changing, multi-cultural city as beautiful as it is brutal, where thoroughfares hide back alleys and where taking the high road can sometimes lead to a dead end.“A boldly Joycean appropriation…an urban epic.”—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books“A deliberate undoing; an unpacking of Smith’s abundant narrative gifts to find a deeper truth, audacious and painful as that truth may be.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPeNgUIN PreSS HArDcover 416 PP. 978-1-59420-397-8 $26.95

sTefaN K iesbyeYour House Is on Fire, Your children All goneShirley Jackson meets The Twilight Zone in this eerily dispassionate novel of supernatural horror that centers around four young friends coming of age in a German village on the Devil’s Moor, a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition.“Sensitive, unsettling, and beautifully written.”—Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone“A brilliant amalgam of Faulkner, the Brothers Grimm, and Günter Grass as if condensed for intensity.”—Josip Novakovich, author of Fiction Writing WorkshopPeNgUIN PAPerbAck 208 PP. 978-0-14-312146-6 $15.00

ludmilla peTrushevsKayaThere once Lived a girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged HimselfLove StoriesTraNslaTed from The russiaN wiTh aN iNTroduCTioN by aNNa summers

By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women look-ing for love are the stories that Petrushevskaya is best known for in Russia.“Petrushevskaya...proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and well.” —The Daily Beast“A revelation…like reading late-Tolstoy fables...set in an alternative reality.”—The New YorkerPeNgUIN PAPerbAck 192 PP. 978-0-14-312152-7 $15.00

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JuNoT d íaZThis Is How You Lose Her“Electrifying….[Díaz] weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it be-comes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signature Díaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and ambigui-ties of perpetual insider/outsider status.”—The New York Times Book Review“A major contribution to the short story form...for readers who demand of their fiction both emotional precision and linguistic daring.”—NPRrIverHeAD HArDcover 224 PP. 978-1-59448-736-1 $26.95A National book Award Finalist

T .C . boyleSan MiguelFrom the New York Times–bestselling author comes a historical novel about three women living on a desolate island off the coast of Southern California in the 19th and 20th centuries. With great period detail, Boyle narrates their stories of struggle and hope as they start new lives and persevere in the face of WWI and the Great Depression.“Absorbing….The intensity of Boyle’s narrative never lets it flag.”—The Washington Post“A beautiful, damp, atmospheric novel, sharp and exacting…a reckoning with conse-quence laced with humor, insight, and pathos.”—San Francisco ChroniclevIkINg HArDcover 384 PP. 978-0-670-02624-1 $27.95

J ess iCa maria TuCCell iglowThe family secrets of half Cherokee, half Scotch-Irish Ella McGee unfold in a vivid gen-erational saga that transports us from the brink of WWII back to the Blue Ridge frontier of 1836, where plantations adjoin the haunted glades of a defeated Cherokee Nation. Tuccelli’s luminous debut reveals how individual acts transform communities and how a mother’s love remains steadfast across hardship and distance. “Flows along with toughness and tenderness….The overlying tapestry is a harsh, beauti-ful, and realistic portrayal of a significant portion of American history. Remarkable!” —The Historical Novels Review (UK)PeNgUIN PAPerbAck 336 PP. 978-0-14-312292-0 $16.00Available March 2013

sTepheN dauThe book of JonasAn exceptional debut about a Muslim war orphan whose family is killed in a military operation gone awry and the American soldier to whom his fate, and survival, is bound. Told in spare, evocative prose, The Book of Jonas is a novel about memory, the choices faced during war, and what happens when foreign disaster appears at our door.“A humane and unforgettable portrayal….Dau beautifully addresses a need to emotion-ally engage with a war that...so often feels remote and unreal.”—The Wall Street JournalPLUMe PAPerbAck 272 PP. 978-0-452-29897-2 $16.00Available March 2013

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NuruddiN farahcrossbonesCompleting the trilogy that began with Links and Knots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers.“Combines an intimate dissection of power within the family with a strong dose of skep-ticism about the machinations of national and global power.”—The Economist“Politically courageous and often gripping...Provides a sophisticated introduction to present-day Somalia, and to the circle of poverty and violence that continues to blight the country.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPeNgUIN PAPerbAck 400 PP. 978-0-14-312253-1 $16.00

Ta iye selas ighana Must goThis powerful new novel evokes an unforgettable African family fractured by truths hid-den, lies told, separation, loss, betrayal, and loneliness—until, in Ghana, a new way for-ward, a new family, begins to emerge.“A totally new and near perfect voice that spans continents…elemental, meditative, and mesmerizing.”—Sapphire, author of Push and The Kid“Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period.”—Teju Cole, author of Open CityPeNgUIN PreSS HArDcover 336 PP. 978-1-59420-449-4 $25.95Available March 2013

alex g i lvarryFrom the Memoirs of a Non-enemy combatantHigh fashion and homeland security clash in a masterful debut about the erosion of the American dream and American justice in the wake of anti-terrorism measures and national hysteria. With a nod to Junot Díaz and Gary Shteyngart, Gilvarry explores some of the most serious issues of our time with dark eviscerating wit.“Delicious…A left-handed love letter to America.”—The New York Times Book Review“Lively…hilarious ….[This] whirligig of a book draws some striking parallels between the way we mythologize stars and the way we look at terrorists.”—The Boston GlobePeNgUIN PAPerbAck 320 PP. 978-0-14-312306-4 $16.00

alberTo maNguelAll Men Are LiarsA gorgeously imagined novel about a journalist who interviews the inner circle of an elusive South American writer, only to uncover—with each new narrator—an increas-ingly contradictory account of his life. In paying homage to literature’s inventions while probing the limits of its conventions, Manguel explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we will be remembered.“Richly textured, ingeniously constructed, and deeply unsettling.”—The Spectator (UK)“Clever, witty, and entertaining.”—The Times (UK)rIverHeAD PAPerbAck 224 PP. 978-1-59448-835-1 $16.00

mohsiN hamidHow to get Filthy rich in rising AsiaAcclaimed Pakistani novelist Hamid’s third book explores the unsettling new religion of money in the Asia of office buildings, cell phone towers, and commuter traffic, and—in doing so—presents a striking slice of contemporary life in a time of crushing upheav-al. Romantic without being sentimental, political without being didactic, and spiritual without being religious, this inventive novel turns an unflinching gaze to the violence and hope it depicts and introduces two unforgettable characters who find moments of genuine intimacy amid superficiality and change.rIverHeAD HArDcover 240 PP. 978-1-59448-729-3 $26.95Available March 2013

J eeT Thay ilNarcopolisJeet Thayil’s luminous debut, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, charts Bombay across three great and broken decades. In writing about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love, and God, Thayil has more in common with William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with the subcontinent’s familiar literary voices. Here, he creates a fan-tastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul.“A brilliant first novel….Nothing like this exists in Indian literature.”—The Sunday Guardian (London)Penguin PaPerback • 304 PP. • 978-0-14-312303-3 • $16.00

ma J iaNThe Dark roadTraNslaTed by flora drew

A haunting novel of the tragedies befalling families at the hands of China’s one-child policy and of human endurance despite brutal cruelty. Ma Jian, who traveled to rural China to see how the state enforces its decree away from the outside world’s prying eyes, met couples living as fugitives so they could have more children. From their darkness, he writes a searing indictment that is also a celebration of life.PeNgUIN PreSS HArDcover 352 PP. 978-1-59420-502-6 $25.95 Available April 2013

Krys leeDrifting HouseSet in Korea and the USA, postwar to present, Krys Lee’s debut short story collection illu-minates a people torn between the traumas of their past and the indignities and sorrows of their present. In the tradition of Chang-rae Lee and Jhumpa Lahiri, Lee presents tales of unthinkable sacrifices, unmoored existences, and fractured and makeshift families.“Krys Lee knows how to…use history and culture as the boards and backdrop of a narra-tive while allowing her characters to take centre-stage.”—The Guardian“Powerful…Takes an unflinching look at the reality of life in Korea.”—The Financial TimesPeNgUIN PAPerbAck 224 PP. 978-0-14-312293-7 $15.00

paul ausTer and J . m . CoeTZeeHere and Now: Letters: 2008–2011The wide-ranging correspondence between New York Times–bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee touches on everything from sports to father-hood, philosophy to politics, the financial crisis to art, death, family, marriage, and love. This epistolary collection reveals an intimate portrait of two men, two sharp intellects, two masters of prose, and two great friends.“Friendship, food, worries, language, Aristotle, Derrida and Joubert—words on the page, connecting two of the world’s most renowned writers.”—Bruce MacDonald, The Toronto Review of BooksvIkINg HArDcover 256 PP. 978-0-670-02666-1 $27.95Available March 2013

roN Curr ie , Jr .Flimsy Little Plastic MiraclesThis bold, arresting new work of fiction from the acclaimed author of Everything Mat-ters! tests the boundaries of storytelling in provocative ways. Currie, who is both author and his own protagonist, probes why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths in a novel in which fact and fiction, creator and character, conspire to impart essential lessons about the human condition.“Startlingly talented…[Currie] survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Von-negut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice of his own.”—The New York TimesvIkINg HArDcover 352 PP. 978-0-670-02534-3 $26.95

maNuel goNZales The Miniature Wife: And other StoriesExuberantly imagined chronicles from a world in which the fantastic has become com-monplace and ordinary lives open to extraordinary danger and beauty. Gonzales’ eigh-teen stories are brilliantly conceived, strikingly original, and told with the narrative grace of a born storyteller. “A marvel—a beautiful, hilarious and moving reinvention of the gothic, a testimony to the sublime powers of the imagination and language. This is a book of extraordinary joy, compassion, horror, and grace.”—Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven BearsrIverHeAD HArDcover 304 PP. 978-1-59448-604-3 $26.95

adam maNsbaChrage Is backThis novel about the price of revenge takes readers on a mind-bending journey into a subterranean world of heroes and villains. Moving through New York City’s unseen communities, from the tunnel camps of the Mole People to the drug dens of Crown Heights, Rage Is Back is a dramatic thrill ride and an introduction to the most memo-rable urban underdog narrator this side of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.“A profound reminder of why fiction matters….This darkly poetic novel took me places I could never get to with my own two feet.”—Attica Locke, author of Black Water RisingvIkINg HArDcover 304 PP. 978-0-670-02612-8 $26.95

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