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Novels and story collections that build whole worlds out of ordinary lives, difficult choices and the people we never quite forget.
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People I Know is a masterful collection of more than sixty extraordinarily short stories that distill entire lives into a few luminous sentences. With clarity of language and a keen eye for human detail, David Joseph turns family, friends, lovers, and strangers into people we feel we already know. The result is a moving, humorous, and deeply observant mirror on the human experience.
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Paul is a New York Times Editor's Choice novel about Frances, an English graduate student who flees a messy breakup by volunteering at a farm in rural France owned by the enigmatic Paul. As she is drawn into his world, the idyll gradually reveals a smoldering battle of wills that threatens to engulf her. Daisy Lafarge delivers a perceptive, incisive exploration of intimacy, power, and belonging.
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Nadaan Parindey is the debut novel by Govind Khetan, a Chartered Accountant and Private Equity professional, about two people whose love is built not across oceans but through the daily choice to show up for each other completely. Girish, a boy of maps and certainties, falls slowly and completely for Pari, who moves through the world like light through a window, reaching corners he never knew were dark. Over seven years, their story becomes a meditation on presence, choice, and the architecture of a life built around one irreplaceable person.