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"Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist...

"Read alone, each story in Lauren Groff's electric collection is an individual triumph-bold, agile, and packed with power. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class,...

"An electrifying first novel from one of Britian's most celebrated young writers, the story of two women circling one another-working side-by-side, sleeping with the same man, inching toward friendship-until an unplanned pregnancy reveals the true...

"A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel observes a struggling gig worker, Arj, who is barely making ends meet in Los Angeles, and intervenes to show him that money can't solve all his problems. Gabriel swaps Arj's life with a wealthy...

"She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter's father, a prisoner of war. She fought off the advances of overzealous Yugoslavian diplomats, found overlooked...