The Bean Trees

Memoirs of a Geisha

A Novel

Arthur Golden

"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut" ("Newsweek"), "Memoirs of a Geisha" is now released in a movie tie-in edition.

The Star Rover

Jack London

'A magnificent literary accomplishment.' - Irving Stone Jack London's novel brings to life the horrors and inhumanities of prison life.

Agamemnon's Daughter

A Novella and Stories

Ismail Kadare

In the title novella, a young man working for the state-controlled media agency experiences a vision of the ancient general Agamemnon, who warns him of the repercussions of his love affair with a high-ranking official's daughter, in a collection that also includes the short stories "The Blinding Order" and "The Great Wall."

The Twelve Chairs

Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf, Evgeniĭ Petrov

Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities. The search for the bejeweled chairs takes these unlikely heroes from the provinces to Moscow to the wilds of Soviet Georgia and the Trans-caucasus mountains; on their quest they encounter a wide variety of characters: from opportunistic Soviet bureaucrats to aging survivors of the prerevolutionary propertied classes, each one more selfish, venal, and ineffective than the one before.

The Western Lands

William S. Burroughs

Burroughs's eagerly awaited final novel in the trilogy begun with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads is a profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on mortality, loneliness, nuclear peril, and the inextinguishable hope for life after death.

Diana, the Goddess who Hunts Alone

Carlos Fuentes

An extraordinary exploration of love, lust, betrayal, and humiliation.