Contemporary Fiction and Nonction New writing from
HAIFA REPUBLIC
by Omri Boehm
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize “When We Cease to Understand the World fuses fact and fiction to turn the modern history of physics into a gripping narrative of obsessed scientists, world-changing discoveries, and the ultimate results—often quite dark— of our drive to understand the fundamental workings of the universe.” —John Williams, The New York Times Book Review Podcast
“It is a meditation in prose that bears a familial relationship to the work of W.G. Sebald or Olga Tokarczuk: a sequence of accounts that skew biographical but also venture into the terrain of imagination.”
—Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker Paperback • $17.95
“Omri Boehm attempts to reconcile Israel’s history with the demands of justice. His ideas are radical just as much as they are hopeful. Boehm is one of the most important philosophers of his generation.” —Susan Neiman “Boehm elegantly synthesizes a tortuous history and offers an imaginative model for Israel’s political future.” —Kirkus Paperback • $14.95
FINDING THE RAGA
by Amit Chaudhuri
WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD
by Benjamín Labatut
Translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West
A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE FOR ISRAEL
THE NETANYAHUS
AN ACCOUNT OF A MINOR AND ULTIMATELY EVEN NEGLIGIBLE EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF A VERY FAMOUS FAMILY
by Joshua Cohen
“Riffing freely on a true story, this brilliant and hilarious new book takes a cozily familiar form, the campus novel, and turns it into a slyly oblique fable about history, identity and the conflicted heart of Jewishness, especially in America.” —John Powers, Fresh Air Paperback • $16.95
AN IMPROVISATION ON INDIAN MUSIC
“[E]ven if you can’t follow every nuance, Chaudhuri will suddenly offer an insight that stops you in your tracks. Listening, he writes, ‘takes us out of ourselves. We read novels, as Walter Benjamin said, to find ourselves in them; we listen to be elsewhere.’ ”
—Alan Light, The New York Times Book Review Paperback • $17.95
by Nastassja Martin
“A novel of great wit and empathy, one that provides a deep insight into the composition of both classical music and historical literature through playful, inventive prose . . . Griffiths has written a thought-provoking novel about possibility that pushes us to think hard about what we know and how we know it.”
—Michael Patrick Brady, Boston Globe
“The great composer pays a visit to Boston in this highconcept novel about Old World musical genius and emerging American society . . . . Stylistically rich and thoughtfully conceived historical fiction." —Kirkus, starred review Paperback • $17.95
In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s near fatal runin with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. “With exquisite prose and sharp observations, Martin reveals how curiosity can uncover the most vivid aspects of the human condition. This is a profound look at the violence and beauty of life.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Paperback • $14.95
by Maël Renouard
MR. BEETHOVEN
by Paul Griffiths
IN THE EYE OF THE WILD
Translated from the French by Sophie R. Lewis
GALLERY OF CLOUDS
by Rachel Eisendrath
“An uncategorizable, virtuoso performance . . . [Gallery of Clouds is a book] told in the form of a dream manuscript, read by a dream-version Virginia Woolf, whom the author meets sitting with friends in Central Park; a manuscript shot through with reflections that are autobiographical, philological, book-historical.” —Nicholas Dames, Public Books Hardcover • $19.95
FRAGMENTS OF AN INFINITE MEMORY
MY LIFE WITH THE INTERNET
Translated from the French by Peter Behrman de Sinéty “Fragments of an Infinite Memory offers a series of thought experiments on the possibilities of online connectivity, winging the reader on flights of fancy that circle around the Internet’s impact on academia, our social lives, and its near-limitless capacity to fuel both nostalgia and the search for what’s new. It’s allusive and full of unexpected digressions, structurally experimental and ironic.” —Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books Paperback • $17.95