A forensic anthropologist returns to war-torn Sri Lanka to identify a murder victim found in an ancient burial site, forcing her to face her homeland's civil conflict and her own past.
In the winter of 1938 Albany, a haunted vagrant gravedigger confronts his tragic past, including the infant son he accidentally killed, in a harrowing dance between despair and the faint possibility of redemption.
In a communist state, a wastepaper compactor secretly salvages forbidden books, becoming an accidental scholar whose mind is a chaotic library of others' thoughts, until automation threatens to silence his literary sanctuary forever.
In the chaotic wake of post-colonial independence, an Indian merchant seeks a new beginning at a sleepy bend in an unnamed African river, only to find his dreams consumed by the continent's violent unraveling.
In late 1970s America, a prosperous Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom deals with his difficult son and past loves, trying to find a happiness that always feels just out of reach.
Olga Tokarczuk's 'Flights' takes readers on a journey through the human body and the urge to travel, connecting stories like Chopin's heart, mysterious disappearances, and a woman's difficult return home. The book explores the nature of movement, migration, and our brief time on Earth.
In the South American republic of Costaguana, the longshoreman Nostromo, tasked with moving a fortune in silver during a civil war, eventually gives in to the corruption he first resisted, leading to his tragic end.
At an IRS office in Peoria, a new trainee named David Foster Wallace discovers how people find meaning in work and life, even as the system tries to erase their humanity.
On the eve of their final Olympics, two lifelong rival cyclists must confront their intertwined past and the ultimate sacrifice when a devastating diagnosis forces them to choose between gold and the life of someone they love.
In a steampunk WWI, a deposed Austro-Hungarian prince on the run in a walking war machine meets a cross-dressing British airman piloting a living airship, forming an alliance that will redefine the global conflict.
In the Shadowhunter city, Clary must defy laws, navigate family secrets, and unite factions to save her mother and stop Valentine from destroying their world, as her love for Jace grows amidst the chaos.
Confined by his phobias and his Santa Monica apartment, Daniel Pecan Cambridge navigates a world of imagined dangers and real-life absurdities, from falsely implicating himself in a murder to attempting to jog with his friend Brian.
During the 1918 flu pandemic and Ireland's fight for independence, a nurse, a rebel doctor, and a volunteer form a bond in a Dublin maternity ward, bringing hope and new life amid death and revolution.
Two families' paths diverge from 17th-century New France, one building a timber empire, the other struggling to survive, as their intertwined stories reveal humanity's destructive relationship with the forest across three centuries and continents.
A divorced, failed sportswriter turned real estate agent navigates the bewildering high-wire act of normalcy and unexpected engagements with life over a poignant Fourth of July weekend in Haddam, New Jersey.
A grief-stricken patriarch in a modern polygamous family, overwhelmed by his large family and failing business, risks everything for an illicit affair that promises to either shatter or redefine his faith and future.
In a grimy 18th-century London, a spirited schoolgirl named Mary Saunders rejects a life of servitude, clawing her way through a perilous journey to seize a liberty society denies her, even if it means becoming the very 'slammerkin' they despise.
In Nazi-occupied Paris, a jazz musician vanishes, leaving his bandmates to confront buried betrayals and the dangerous truth of his fate fifty years later.
In the tiger-filled Sundarbans, an American biologist's search for rare dolphins connects her with a local fisherman and a translator, pulling them into a political struggle as unforgiving as the landscape.
A daughter learns about her father's violent past, a life on the run marked by twelve bullet wounds. His history affects her present, leading to a confrontation about love and family.
On a fading Martha's Vineyard estate, two cousins face the broken promises of post-war life and the lingering effects of a murder that shatters their privileged world.
In 1970s London, a Turkish immigrant family's desperate pursuit of honor within a new culture tragically culminates in an act of violence, exposing the devastating clash between tradition and assimilation.
