The latest New York Times Book Review had a list of the 100
notable books of 2012.
I am pleased to
say we have a good percentage of them.
Here are a few of from that list.
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter. The
story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a
young innkeeper looks out over the waters of the Ligurian Sea
and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman approaching him on a boat. She is
an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the
story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows
up on a movie studio's back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw
at his hotel decades earlier. A roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years
and nearly as many lives.
Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie. Included
here are some of Alexie’s most esteemed tales, including “What You Pawn I Will
Redeem," “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” “The Toughest
Indian in the World,” and “War Dances.” Alexie’s new stories are fresh and
quintessential—about donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, the
reservation, marriage, and all species of contemporary American warriors. An
indispensable collection of new and classic stories.
The Round House by Louis Erdrich.
One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is
attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is
traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened. In one day, Joe's
life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not
leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Joe finds himself thrust
prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his father,
who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies
his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets
out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of
his own.
NW by Zadie Smith. Zadie Smith’s
new novel follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – as they
try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell,
the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at
work and at play, their London
is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares
hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead
end.
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