Memories of brutality form a common language for the people of Bogotá, Colombia. Can these citizens build a future different from the past?

• Literary,

Pushing beyond genre boundaries, this fictional memoir of a Nobel Prize in Medicine winner reveals not only his greatness but his dark and disturbing secrets.

• Literary,

A Liberian woman’s present is deeply tainted by her past.

• Literary,

A former actor and writer for the British comedy team Monty Python brings his talent to bear in an engaging novel with a serious theme.

• Literary,

A novel exploring the value and meaning of the human endeavor to heal and to rescue.

• Literary,

A deceptively simple story of a North Korean prisoner of war’s search for a new life in his adopted country of Brazil.

• Literary,

A scathing portrait of disaffected 30-something life in the 21st century that’s as much X-ray as it is mirror.

• Literary,

This enthralling tale of love, death and sisterhood is a retelling of the Japanese creation myth.

• Literary,