Ismet Prcic wins 2011 LA Times Book Award
Ismet Prcic has won the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for his novel Shards. He discusses it in this recent interview with Bookworm's Michael Silverblatt.
Greenblatt Wins 2012 Pulitzer
Author Stephen Greenblatt has won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Hear his recent conversation with Michael Silverblatt.
The Dew Breaker (Knopf)
What happens when a Haitian "dew breaker" (torturer) moves to America and conceals his identity? In this collection of interrelated stories, Edwidge Danticat explores the twin legacies of torture and secrecy-the past constantly usurping the present, the nightmare of oppression superimposing itself on the American immigrant experience.
Read an excerpt from The Dew Breaker.
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