Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter'A monument to crazy love. Magic' New York Times 'The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .' In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's boat motors into an Italian bay and the life of hotelier Pasquale Tursi. Dee fleeing a film set, claiming to be dying and desperately awaiting her lover throws herself on Pasquale's generous mercy. Fifty years later Pasquale lands in Hollywood, sporting a fedora and seeking a long

criminal wars and Bollywood films

an exchange with his brother (a philosopher)

Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other

Willie’s adopted town of Clanton lived on the edge of another age

a photograph falls to the ground--an old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor

Many analysts have predicted that China’s unprecedented economic development and middle-class expansion would lead to a liberalization of its political regime and a move toward democracy

and controlling her desires

to the electromagnetic chamber where the stealth bomber was born on a twenty-five-cent bet

To forget everything I had left behind

and what is it like to have a private life that is usually also a secret life

Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love

Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria