Man Booker Prize for Fiction! The Sense of an Ending is the mysterious, gripping story of a retired man compelled to revisit memories of his sex-hungry, book-hungry school clique. He discovers that memory can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity, and insight, this is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.
New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer Tomas Transtromer is Sweden's most important poet, and the winner of the Nobel Prize. New Collected Poems includes all the poems he has written during the past fifty years. In Sweden, he has been called a "buzzard poet" because his haunting, visionary poetry shows the world from a height, in a mystic dimension, but brings every detail of the natural world into sharp focus.
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is revelatory, real, and muscled with poetry. Read it and see why it won the National Book Award for Fiction.
