Feb '19 Notable Books: Han Kang, Marlon James, Sharma Shields & More
A monthly series on the most interesting upcoming book releases...
Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James (Feb. 5) - In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
All My Goodbyes - Mariana Dimópulos (Feb. 5) - All My Goodbyes is a novel told in overlapping vignettes, which follow the travels of a young Argentinian woman across Europe (Malaga, Madrid, Heidelberg, Berlin) and back to Argentina (Buenos Aires, Patagonia) as she flees from situation to situation, job to job, and relationship to relationship.
The Atlas of Red and Blues - Devi S. Laskar (Feb. 5) - An arresting debut novel which bears witness to American racism and abuse of power, tracing one woman's shift from acquiescence to resistance.
Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis (Feb. 5) - Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters offers an intoxicating portrait of Mexico in the late 1980s.
Mother Winter - Sophia Shalmiyev (Feb. 12) - An arresting memoir equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditation on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art that follows award-winning writer Sophia Shalmiyev's flight from the Soviet Union, where she was forced to abandon her estranged mother, and her subsequent quest to find her.
The Cassandra - Sharma Shields (Feb. 12) - The Cassandra follows a woman who goes to work in a top secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind.
Death Is Hard Work - Khaled Khalifa (Feb. 12) - Khaled Khalifa's Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination.
The White Book - Han Kang (Feb. 19) - From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang (The Vegetarian, Human Acts), a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white.
Nothing but the Night - John Williams (Feb. 19) - The resurrected debut novel from the author best known for Stoner. In the person of Arthur Maxley, Williams investigates the terror and the waywardness of a man who has suffered an early traumatic experience.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James (Feb. 5) - In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
All My Goodbyes - Mariana Dimópulos (Feb. 5) - All My Goodbyes is a novel told in overlapping vignettes, which follow the travels of a young Argentinian woman across Europe (Malaga, Madrid, Heidelberg, Berlin) and back to Argentina (Buenos Aires, Patagonia) as she flees from situation to situation, job to job, and relationship to relationship.
The Atlas of Red and Blues - Devi S. Laskar (Feb. 5) - An arresting debut novel which bears witness to American racism and abuse of power, tracing one woman's shift from acquiescence to resistance.
Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis (Feb. 5) - Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sea Monsters offers an intoxicating portrait of Mexico in the late 1980s.
Mother Winter - Sophia Shalmiyev (Feb. 12) - An arresting memoir equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditation on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art that follows award-winning writer Sophia Shalmiyev's flight from the Soviet Union, where she was forced to abandon her estranged mother, and her subsequent quest to find her.
The Cassandra - Sharma Shields (Feb. 12) - The Cassandra follows a woman who goes to work in a top secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind.
Death Is Hard Work - Khaled Khalifa (Feb. 12) - Khaled Khalifa's Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination.
The White Book - Han Kang (Feb. 19) - From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang (The Vegetarian, Human Acts), a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white.
Nothing but the Night - John Williams (Feb. 19) - The resurrected debut novel from the author best known for Stoner. In the person of Arthur Maxley, Williams investigates the terror and the waywardness of a man who has suffered an early traumatic experience.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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