Chess: A Novel

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the […]

Suddenly – tomorrow or the day after – teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman’s extraordinary

The dazzling, exhilarating debut novel from one of the most groundbreaking writers of his generation, The Broom of the System is an outlandishly funny and fiercely intelligent exploration of the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold […]

I trettiotalets Paris, där det ena billiga hotellrummet liknar det andra, undervisar en ung kvinna sig själv i likgiltighet. Hon har undkommit en personlig tragedi och flyttat till Paris för att finna mod och självständighet. Hon intalar sig att aldrig förvänta sig något, i synnerhet inte vänlighet – och i synnerhet inte från männen. I […]