In 1950s Washington, a President's choice for Secretary of State starts a political battle, full of betrayals and moral compromises, that threatens the country.
Fired from his banking job, a privileged Lahori spirals into drug addiction, an illicit affair, and a life of crime, ultimately facing a murder trial that mirrors the volatile corruption of modern Pakistan.
Decades after college, a narcoleptic, a film addict, a heartbroken romantic, and an increasingly unstable doctor meet at a gothic sleep clinic, where their past and present collide in a hallucinatory exploration of love, obsession, and reality.
In the opium-scented shadows of 1920s Paris, a desperate woman's obsessive love for a shapeshifting, wealthy heir unravels a world of forbidden desires and tragic self-destruction.
A body artist in a secluded coastal home deals with the memory of her dead film-director husband, blurring the lines between grief, performance, and the haunting persistence of memory.
Paula Spencer, a Dublin woman shaped by a hard life and an abusive marriage, navigates her past with raw wit, searching for her lost self among bottles and old ghosts.
On a rickety bus traversing California's forgotten byways, a group of dreamers, schemers, saints, and sinners are jolted from their pasts toward an uncertain, yet hopeful, future.
In a 1960s British suburb with Elizabethan roots, Isobel Fairfax experiences Shakespearean time warps, uncovering the truth about her vanished mother and the hidden lives of her family.
After her childhood is shattered, Melanie is thrust into a bizarre, puppet-filled world ruled by her toy-making uncle, where she must navigate a grotesque coming-of-age among life-sized dolls and mechanical birds.
A Manhattan art dealer's ordered life and idea of beauty unravels with the arrival of his wife's younger brother, forcing him to confront the nature of his own desires.
A young Englishwoman's sea voyage to a South American resort explores self-discovery, love, and the societal expectations for women in early 20th-century England.
In 19th-century New Zealand, a farm girl's dreams of escaping her predetermined life collide with the arrival of two outsiders, forcing her to confront the steep price of a single, life-altering choice.
A castaway asks a writer to immortalize her story of survival with Cruso and the silent Friday; this request becomes a deep look at truth, authorship, and narrative's power.
Mickey Sabbath, a sixty-four-year-old puppeteer, embarks on a lecherous and grief-stricken odyssey through his past after the death of his mistress, leaving a trail of farcical disasters and confronting the ghosts of his scandalous life.
After an accident makes him believe his sister is an impostor, a man's search for answers unravels his mind and the lives of those around him, as migrating cranes reflect their world's delicate balance.
An aging intellectual, who sees himself as a master of sexual freedom, finds his world of detached pleasure broken by an obsessive love for a young student, making him face the intense reality of passion and death.
Truman Capote's collection explores a Midwestern murderer, the beauty of Marilyn Monroe, and the humor of a New York cleaning lady, all written with his distinctive prose.
In a town where a coffee shop is the center of many lives, a philosophy professor, a coffee shop owner, and various lovers deal with the often funny and always moving complexities of modern love and human connection.
As Vishnu, a dying houseboy, lies on an apartment building's stairs, the residents of modern-day Bombay descend into a hilarious and chaotic mix of prejudice, forbidden love, and mistaken identity, forcing them to confront their own humanity amid the absurdity of life and death.
A charmingly corrupt ex-tour guide, mistaken for a spiritual guru, finds his manufactured piety divinely tested when a drought-stricken village demands a miracle.
