ANATOMY OF A DISAPPEARANCE, by Hisham Matar (Dial, $ 15.) Matar's fiction revolves around his parents, as well as especially his father, a Libyan anarchist who was kidnapped by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's agents in Cairo in 1990. In his elegiac second novel, a child struggles with a puzzling kidnapping of his father, exiled from an unnamed Arab country, as well as with his confused, preadolescent desire for his father's much younger second wife.
PITY THE BILLIONAIRE: The Hard-Times Swindle as well as a Unlikely Comeback of a Right, by Thomas Frank. (Picador, $ 16.) Frank, a writer of "What's a Matter With Kansas?" (2004), entertainingly challenges conservatives' claims that, in a arise of a fiscal calamities of 2008, they have been a victims of an almighty liberal establishment. AMERICAN DREAMERS: How a Left Changed a Nation, by Michael Kazin. (Vintage, $ 16.) From abolitionists to Communists to a complicated feminist as well as happy rights movements, this is a panoramic history of a reformers, radicals as well as idealists who, while not fully next upon their own terms, have shifted a nation's dignified compass as well as stretched a sense of political possibility.
THE STRANGER'S CHILD, by Alan Hollinghurst (Vintage International, $ 15.95.) Divided into 5 tools that fool around out over 5 opposite decades, Hollinghurst's neatly drawn novel tells a story of kin as well as scholars grappling with a legacy of a captivating immature poet (a kind of "upper-class Rupert Brooke") killed during World War I.
DISTRUST THAT PARTICULAR FLAVOR, by William Gibson (Berkley, $ 16.) Gibson, a single of our biggest science-fiction writers, popularized a term "cyberspace" in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer." Instead of predicting a future, this pleasant collection of travelogues, memoirs, lectures as well as literary musings finds a! destiny all around us, crushed up with a past.
STORYTELLER, by Leslie Marmon Silko (Penguin, $ 21.) First published in 1981, this book of reduced stories, folk tales, poems, historical as well as autobiographical notes as well as photographs celebrates Silko's Pueblo as well as Mexican heritage.
THE SWERVE: How a World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt (Norton, $ 16.95.) Written in a initial century B.C., Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura," or "On a Nature of Things," is a 7,400-line poem covering philosophy, physics, optics, cosmology, sociology, psychology, sacrament as well as sex as well as a ideas influenced Newton as well as Darwin, among others. In "The Swerve," Greenblatt investigates how Lucretius' work was saved from oblivion by a 15th-century book hunter, as well as what a rescue means to us.
THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE, by Lene Kaaberbol as well as Agnete Friis. Translated by Lene Kaaberbol (Soho Crime, $ 15.95.) Human trafficking as well as a disadvantage of refugee women as well as their young kids have been a executive themes of this riveting Danish thriller, that follows a helper as she tries to brand a 3-year-old child she has rescued at a Copenhagen sight station.
PARADISE LUST: Searching for a Garden of Eden, by Brook Wilensky-Lanford (Grove, $ 15.) Wilensky-Lanford gamely traces a efforts of explorers, scientists as well as theologians to find Eden in some unlikely places, together with a Arctic as well as rural Ohio.
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