From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar.The Psoad is an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows a goatherd’s son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight with the Greeks at Troy. This commoner’s story was lost to time—until Harlow Donne, a Canadian academic who has left his own wife and da...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe international bestseller and modern classic of adventure, survival, and the power of storytelling is now an award-winning play.After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan—and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.Soon the tiger has dispatched all...

She left the Philippines at twenty-four with a degree she couldn't use and a family that needed her to go.For seven years, Maria Elena Santos cares for an elderly woman in a Singapore HDB flat, a woman who is sharp-tongued, difficult, and slowly disappearing. Alongside her is the woman's husband: quiet, precise, and unexpectedly kind in the ways that matter most. He pours tea without being asked. He leaves newspaper articles on the kitchen table with small notes. He says good, ...

These 23 stories take us on a twisted fun ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the fittest. From a new short story by William Gibson in which a teen disassociated from his body haunts his neighborhood through the decades, to Douglas Coupland’s balls-out satire of a slightly futuristic Surviv...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Fifteen years after The Life of Pi, Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize–winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh. . . . Martel’s writing has never been more charming.”—Ron Charles, The Washington PostNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR

Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play"Life of Pi will make you believe in the power of theatre" (Times).After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixteen year-old boy named Pi. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?Based on one of the most extraordinary ...

Singapore, 1838. Tan Ling Ling is fifteen years old, Hainanese, and works in a British merchant's household near Commercial Square. She has taught herself English from other people's newspapers. She has never had lessons.When her employer's daughter finds a notice in an old copy of The Times — a young London clerk seeking correspondence from any person of intelligence in the Eastern Settlements — Ling waits two weeks. Then she writes back.What follows is a correspondence of...

Mei-Lin Yap moves into a studio on Valencia Street in October, with seven boxes and the careful numbness of someone who has decided that wanting things is its own kind of risk.The east wall of Studio 2B is warm. Warmer than it should be. Warmer than any heating system explains.His name is Joaquin. He has been in the wall since 1961, sixty-three years, a muralist who died before he could finish the argument he was making on that very wall. He cannot leave. He has made peace ...

When the crypto firm Linh Bui fronted collapses in fraud, she loses everything — her job, her apartment, her income, and the identity she spent twenty years building. She wasn't the architect of the fraud. She was its face. In Singapore, that turns out to be enough.What follows is a year of slow, unglamorous return: a small rental in Toa Payoh, a delivery rider's bicycle, the city learned from the service entrance up. And somewhere in the middle of it, a man from her secondary scho...

When Ethan picks up a secondhand phone from a charity drive, he finds it already inhabited, by a girl named Cara, whose music, photos, and messages are still there. He tries to reset it. The phone refuses.Then a message arrives: Hello? Is anyone there?What begins as a curiosity becomes, over fourteen weeks of late-night texts, something Ethan has no name for. Cara is funny and perceptive and pays attention to him in a way he has never been paid attention to. She al...

BONUS: This edition contains a Beatrice and Virgil discussion guide.When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey—named Beatrice and Virgil—and the epic journey they undertake together.With all the spirit and originality that made Life ...

Waking up in the hospital, Chloe's world is turned upside down after a night of partying ends in a tragic accident. As a college student who loves to let loose, she never imagined she would be facing the reality of losing both of her legs just under the knees. Now, Chloe must navigate her new life one step at a time, learning to adapt and overcome the challenges that lie ahead.