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by Howard Jacobson FINALIST FOR THE 2014 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
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ward-winning author, Howard Jacobson’s new novel “invites comparison with George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World” (Sunday Times, London). Set in a world where collective memory has vanished and the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a profound, darkly comedic parable.
“J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our selfsatisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling from the debris.” —Independent (UK) Hogarth • HC • 978-0-553-41955-9 • 352 pp. • $25.00
DIARY OF THE FALL
by Michel Laub Translated by Margaret Jull Costa he story of three generations: a man’s struggle for forgiveness; a father with Alzheimer’s, for whom recording every memory has become an obsession; and a grandfather who survived Auschwitz, filling notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget.
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“Finally, a novel about the relationship between Judaism’s past and present that explores new territory . . . . Diary of the Fall is a refreshingly honest and startlingly original book.” —Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season
Other Press • HC • 978-1-59051-651-5 • 240 pp. • $20.00
NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL
A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham his poignant and frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham— the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO’s Girls—as one of the brightest and most original writers working today.
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“A genuine artist, and a disturber of the order.” —The Atlantic
www.lenadunham.com
Random House • HC • 978-0-8129-9499-5 288 pp. • $28.00
LITTLE FAILURE: A Memoir
by Gary Shteyngart
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SELECTED FOR COMMON READING AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE
rom one of his generation’s most celebrated writers, comes a memoir that is “an ecstatic depiction of survival, guilt and perseverance . . . as vivid, original and funny as [anything] contemporary U.S. literature has to offer” (Los Angeles Times).
Random House Trade Paperbacks • TR 978-0-8129-8249-7 • 368 pp. • $16.00
www.garyshteyngart.com
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