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After the Fire introduces a quintet of very different women as they struggle with abandonment, loss, and new beginnings—both together and alone.

When the novel opens, Diana’s twin brother, David, a widower in his mid-sixties, is looking back on his life.

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps -- a community devoted exclusively to sickness -- as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was alre

"Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today.

In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.