The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and...

"[Hock] knows he is ensorcelled by exoticism, but he can't help himself. And, as things go from bad to worse and the pages start to turn faster, neither can we. A."—Entertainment Weekly When he was a young man, Ellis Ho...

One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is he...

The author of The Baby of the Family presents another novel of relationships and pathos as she follows the struggles of three very different women over one weekend as they seek to confront the pain of their lives. Reader's Guide avail...

From the international bestselling author of Eeny Meeny comes the second thriller in the "truly excellent series"* featuring Detective Helen Grace.A man's body is found in an empty house. A gruesome memento of his murder is...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND BOOKPAGELook for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.An expansive, eye-opening novel tha...

"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled O Bunny you are sooo genius " --Margaret Atwood, via Twi...

This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!

The late National Book Award-winning author offers a collection of short stories that reflects society's follies and foibles--including, "At the Tolstoy Museum," "Sentence," and "Porcupines at the University&q...

Written in the 1960s and set against the macho backdrop of the Argentine underworld, these eleven stories--including "Unworthy" and "The Other Duel"--examine the effects of the unbearable, the sinister, and the ine...

"Love, war, desire, and art—it's all here." —ElleTwo Women. Two Ears. One painting that ties them together.July 1967, Mayfair, London--a painting is left propped on the doorstep of the Skeleton Gallery, discovered by Ode...

When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize.  In the years since, it has become a classic.  Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificen...

Told entirely through job application letters, this starkly humorous story follows Joey as he halfheartedly looks for a job. With his younger brother Adrian in the hospital after being hit by a drunk driver, Joey can't seem to muster ...

For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo, Jonathan Dee's novels are masterful works of literary fiction. In this sharply observed tale of self-invention and public scandal, Dee raises a trenchant question: what do we really w...

Brunella, an accomplished Seattle architect, stumbles upon a a web of family secrets, while struggling to help her aging father protect his beloved vineyard during a drought that is ravaging the Pacific Northwest and investigating the...

The new novel from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges—a political thriller set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.In the Negev desert, a nameless prisoner languishes in a secret c...

"This stunning novel by a Booker Prize winner . . . Offers up its brilliance by way of astonishingly effective storytelling."—Booklist, starred review"A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narra...

Your past will devastate your family. But your lies could destroy them. What would YOU do?Sometimes a lie can split your life in two. There is "before", and there is "after". Try as you might – you can never go ...

Self-styled writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be "among people, even for five or ten minutes." And so it is with trepidation that she ac...

A story of a man brought to reckon with his buried past. Reverend Martin comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious 'meeting' with the Revere...

These 12 stories about travelers include a brief sketch of Pablo Neruda ("I Sell My Dreams"), a bitterly satirical story about a Latin American couple in France ("The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow’’), and ...

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane GardamÂ's masterpiece, a book where life...

Anna Gavalda's Someone I Loved is a hauntingly intimate look at the intolerably painful, yet occasionally valuable consequences that adultery can have on a marriage and the individuals involved. Readers familiar with I Wish Someone W...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM RELATIVITY MEDIAA burnout at thirty-five, months behind on his book, low on cash, and something of a loser, Eddie Spinola could use a shot in the arm. One day he randomly runs into Vernon, his ex-wife'...

A stylish literary page-turner about a writer forced to play detective when a serial killer hires him to tell his story—and three women turn up dead.

Traveling at high speed in her beloved Hispano-Suiza with her maid and trusted companion Dot, her two adoptive daughters Jane and Ruth, and their dog Molly, Phryne Fisher is off to Queenscliff. She'd promised everyone a nice holiday b...

A New York Review Books OriginalEverything Flows is the last novel by Vasily Grossman, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his extraordinary epic of besieged Stalingrad, and the besieged modern soul, Life and Fate. The cen...

An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.  As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialt...

Robert Hellenga's superb debut, The Sixteen Pleasures, took the reader to 1960s Florence--a place of floods, fine art, and erotic discovery. His new novel, The Fall of a Sparrow, also opens in Italy, now transformed by the onslaught o...

Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she work...