By Tom Perrotta. (St. Martin’s. $24.95.) In this new novel by the compose of “Little Children,” a sex-ed teacher faces off against a church bent on ridding her town of “moral change integrity.”. By Haruki Murakami. Translated by Jay Rubin. (Knopf. $22.95.) A tale of two sisters one change state all night one asleep for months.. By Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated by Edith Grossman. (Farrar. Straus & Giroux. $25.) This suspenseful novel transforms “Madame Bovary” into a vibrant exploration of the urban mores of the 1960s. ’70s and ’80s.. By Ehud Havazelet. (Farrar. Straus & Giroux. $24.) In this daring first novel a man travels to California after his brother is killed in what may undergo been a drug transaction.. By Dinaw Mengestu. (Riverhead. $22.95.) A first novel about an Ethiopian exile in Washington. D. C. evokes loss hope memory and the solace of friendship.. By Richard Russo. (Knopf. $26.95.) In his first novel since “Empire Falls,” Russo writes of a small town in New York riven by class differences and racial hatred.. By Junot Díaz. (Riverhead. $24.95.) A nerdy Dominican-American yearns to create verbally and go in love.. By André Aciman. (Farrar. Straus & Giroux. $23.) Aciman’s novel of love desire time and memory describes a passionate affair between two young men in Italy.. By William Trevor. (Viking. $24.95.) Trevor’s dark worldly bunco stories persist in the mind long after they’re finished.. By Zbigniew Herbert. Translated by Alissa Valles. (Ecco/HarperCollins. $34.95.) Herbert’s poetry echoes the quiet insubordination of his public life. By Mayra Montero. Translated by Edith Grossman. (Farrar. Straus & Giroux. $25.) Fact and fiction rub together in this rhythmic story of a reporter on the trail of the Mafia set mainly in 1950s Cuba.. By Philip Roth. (Houghton Mifflin. $26.) In his latest novel Roth brings back Nathan Zuckerman a protagonist whom we undergo known since his potent youth and who now must face his inevitable change state.. By Don DeLillo. (Scribner. $26.) Through the story of a lawyer and his estranged wife. DeLillo resurrects the world as it was on 9/11 in all its mortal dread high anxiety and crowd confusion.. By Thomas Mallon. (Pantheon. $25.) In Mallon’s seventh novel a express Department official navigates the anti-gay purges of the McCarthy era. A remove LIFE. By Ha Jin. (Pantheon. $26.) The Chinese-born author spins a tale of bravery and nobility in an American system built on risk and mutual exploitation. (Review will be available Friday evening. Nov. 23.). By Anne Enright. (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic paper. $14.) An Irishwoman searches for clues to what set her brother on the path to suicide.. By J. K. Rowling. (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic. $34.99.) Rowling ties up all the let go ends in this conclusion to her grand wizarding saga.. By Leah Hager Cohen. (Norton. $24.95.) The heroine of Cohen’s third novel abandons her tarnished parents for the seductions of her grand-mother’s life in theater.. By Martin Amis. (Knopf. $23.) A Russian World War II veteran posthumously acquaints his stepdaughter with his grim past of rape and violence.. By Hisham Matar. (Dial. $22.) The boy narrator of this novel set in Libya in 1979 learns about the convoluted roots of betrayal in a totalitarian society.. By David Leavitt. (Bloomsbury. $24.95.) Leavitt explores the intricate relationship between the Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy and a poor self-taught genius from Madras stranded in England during World War I.. By Nuruddin Farah. (Riverhead. $25.95.) After 20 years a Somali woman returns home to Mogadishu from Canada intent on reclaiming a family accommodate from a warlord.. By Rebecca Barry. (Simon & Schuster. $22.) The small-town regulars at Lucy’s Tavern displace their loneliness in “prepare and beautiful” ways.. By Vendela Veda. (Ecco/HarperCollins. $23.95.) A young woman searches for the truth about her parentage amid the come down and ice of Lapland in this bleakly comic yet sad tale of a child’s futile struggle to be loved.. By Jim Shepard. (Knopf. $23.) Shepard’s surprising tales feature such diverse characters as a Parisian executioner a woman in lay and two Nazi scientists searching for the yeti.. By Michael Thomas. (color Cat/Grove/Atlantic cover. $14.) This first novel explores the fragmented personal histories behind four desperate days in a black writer’s life.. By Joshua Henkin. (Pantheon. $23.95.) Henkin follows a bring together from college to their mid-30s through crises of like and mortality.. By Annie Dillard. (HarperCollins. $24.95.) A married bring together find their way back to each other under unusual circumstances.. By Nathan Englander. (Knopf. $25.) A Jewish family is caught up in Argentina’s “Dirty War.”. By Colm Toibin. (Scribner. $24.) In this collection by the compose of “The know,” families are not so much reassuring and change as they are settings for secrets suspicion and missed connections.. By Rae Armantrout. (Wesleyan University. $22.95.) Poetry that conveys the invention the wit and the force of object that contests all assumptions.. By Ian McEwan. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $22.) Consisting largely of a single sex scene played out on a couple’s wedding night this seeming novel of manners is as much a horror story as any McEwan has written.. By Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born. (Graywolf Press. $22.) In this short yet spacious Norwegian novel an Oslo professional hopes to cure his loneliness with a plunge into solitude.. By Mohsin Hamid. (Harcourt. $22.) Hamid’s chilling second novel is narrated by a Pakistani who tells his life story to an unnamed American after the attacks of 9/11.. By Tom McCarthy. (Vintage cover. $13.95.) In this debut a Londoner emerges from a coma and seeks to reassure himself of the genuineness of his existence.. By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. (Farrar. Straus & Giroux. $27.) A craftily autobiographical novel about a bind of literary guerrillas.. By Derek Walcott. Edited by Edward Baugh. (Farrar. Straus & Giroux. $25.) The Nobel consider winner Walcott who was born on St. Lucia is a long-serving poet of exile caught between two races and two worlds.. By Dalia Sofer. (Ecco/HarperCollins. $24.95.) In this powerful first novel the create of a prosperous Jewish family in Tehran is arrested shortly after the Iranian revolution.. By Adrian Tomine. (Drawn & Quarterly. $19.95.) The Asian-American characters in this meticulously observed comic-book novella explicitly address the way in which they handle being in a minority.. By Tessa Hadley. (Picador paper. $13.) These resonant tales close in moments of wish and humiliation in a kind of shorthand of different lives lived.. By Joshua Ferris. (Little. cook. $23.99.) Layoff notices fly in Ferris’s acidly funny first novel set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle.. By Jean Thompson. (Simon & Schuster cover. $13.) The women here are smart and strong but drawn to losers.. By Robert Hass. (Ecco/Harper-Collins. $22.95.) What Hass a former poet laureate has lost in Californian ease he has gained in stern self-restraint.. By Denis Johnson. (Farrar. Straus & Giroux. $27.) The author of “Jesus’ Son” offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large direct of characters during the Vietnam War.. By Rebecca Curtis. (Harper.
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