Older and wiser, Arkady Renko investigates the links between a mysterious meeting and a crusading journalist's death.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

This sprawling tale is at its best when the author delves into the details of courtesan life in Shanghai.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

An ambitious but flawed narrative hiding behind the transparent scrim of a fictional curtain.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

In this heart-wrenching debut, a troubled misfit carries the guilt of a childhood mistake.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

The disharmonious strains of a family’s life surface in a controversial issue of land use.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A young man’s fortunes suddenly turn when he’s cast as the lead in provocative and infamous play.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

The author of Eat, Pray, Love brings readers a 19th-century story of ideas.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

This fictional telling of Raymond Carver’s last years hews too close to reality.

• Fiction,
• Literary,