"Brimming with rich descriptions of a beautiful country…. The News From Paraguay evolves from a quirky, elegant tale of an unconventional love affair into a sweeping epic." — Fort Worth Star-TelegramLily Tuck's impressive novel offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of 19th century Paraguay, a largely untouched wilderness where European and American figures mix with the Spanish aristocracy of the capital and the indigenous peoples from the surrou...

National Book Award-Winning Author: A second wife is haunted by the first in a novel that "expertly deploys revelations like land mines" ( The Minneapolis Star Tribune).From the acclaimed author of I Married You for Happiness, Sisters is a "masterpiece" ( The Boston Globe) that gives a very different portrait of marital life, exposing the intricacies of a new marriage sprung from betrayal.Lily Tuck's unnamed narrator lives ...

Uma notável proeza caleidoscópica da imaginação, a partir da leitura por Lily Tuck de um obituário do fotógrafo Wilhelm Brasse, que tirou mais de 40 mil fotografias dos prisioneiros de Auschwitz, entre as quais três de Czeslawa Kwoka.Vista pela primeira vez à pendura na mota de um rapaz, Czeslawa, de 14 anos, ganha vida neste romance prodigioso e inquietante, que imagina a sua infância numa pequena aldeia polaca antes de o seu mundo implodir no final de 1942.

The first biography in any language of one of the most celebrated Italian writers of the twentieth century.Born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means, Elsa Morante grew up with an independent spirit, a formidable will, and an unshakable commitment to writing. Forced to hide from the Fascists during World War II in a remote mountain hut with her husband, renowned author Alberto Moravia, she re-emerged at war's end to take her place among the premier Italian writers of ...

From the National Book Award-winning author of I Married You for Happiness: "Tuck packs a small universe and decades of emotional history into each story."— Entertainment Weekly (A-)An artist learns that her deceased ex-husband had an especially illicit affair years before his death. A couple living in Thailand worries about the mental stability of their best friend, a U. S. army captain. On a ship bound for Antarctica, a retired couple strains to ...

In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived, Lily Tuck's characters travel to unknown, exotic places and, while there, find themselves deeply immersed in observation -- of the natives, the local customs, the foreign landscape -- in an effort to discern some elemental truth about who they themselves are. Instead, these women meet with disorientation, confusion; they are disappointed by the people closest to them -- lovers, husban...

A "captivating" portrait of a long marriage and a meditation on how chance can affect life from the National Book Award winner ( The Washington Post)."His hand is growing cold, still she holds it" is how this novel that contemplates love, after a husband's sudden death, begins.This riveting and deeply moving story unfolds over a single night, as Nina, numb with grief, sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose unexpected death is the reason ...

The National Book Award winner explores the hidden dynamics of relationships with "lean, intriguing, formally inventive prose" in this collection ( Kirkus Reviews).A New York Times Editor's ChoiceIn Heathcliff Redux, the novella that begins this collection, a married woman reads Wuthering Heights—just as she falls under the erotic and destructive spell of her own Heathcliff. In the stories that follow, a ...

**The heartbreaking story of a young Catholic girl transported to Auschwitz becomes a Rashomon-like rondo by one of our greatest novelists.Esquire • Best Books of Fall 2024"The Rest Is Memory is a literary resurrection, as shattering as it is astonishing. Lily Tuck has done the impossible; from darkness and hideous cruelty, she has woven an unforgettable paean to hope, to life, to justice." —Junot Diaz**First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s ...

This National Book Award–winning author’s autobiographical novel is a “layered portrait of a family and the historical eras it lived through” (The Boston Globe).“Tuck is a genius.” —Los Angeles Book ReviewHer father is a German movie producer who lives in Italy. Her mother is a beautiful, artistically talented woman who resides in New York. As their child, Liliane’s life is divided between those two very different worlds—w...

Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepreneur and founder of the Thai Silk Company. Weeks later, on Easter Sunday, Thompson vanishes without a trace in the Thai highlands. As the political implications of Thompson's disappearance surface, Claire becomes increasingly obsessed with his...

Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near-naked but wearing boots -- has been discovered propped up "like a broom" in a corner of her Soho loft. It is an occasion ripe for an all-night heart-to-heart conversation, bouncing deliriously from one evasion to the next -- until the pair of talk-crazy, talk-weary women have successfully div...