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In a medieval village in a year of drought and famine, Marek, the abused, motherless son of the shepherd, is drawn by a violent accident into the household of the depraved lord Villiam, while the blind midwife Ina tends to forces the priest would rather not see.
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A Feast of Snakes
In Mystic, Georgia, during the annual rattlesnake roundup, a former high school football star stuck with a liquor-store job and a broken marriage feels the weekend's frenzy pushing him towards violence.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Born in an eighteenth-century Paris fish market with no scent of his own and the keenest nose in France, Grenouille apprentices as a perfumer and begins killing young women to distill their smell.
The Wasp Factory
A teenager on a Scottish island constructs elaborate rituals of death from animal remains, and the revelation of his family's secret reframes everything.
Homesick for Another World
Stories of deeply unlovable Americans examining their own decay with uncomfortable clarity.
Wise Blood
A young man in the rural American South is consumed by a grotesque religious vision, and the novel's dark comedy conceals a genuine theological horror.
Hurricane Season
A dead body surfaces in a Mexican village, and the investigation spirals into a chorus of rage, poverty, and sexual violence told in a single, breathless torrent.
The Pillars of the Earth
A master builder in twelfth-century England devotes his life to constructing a cathedral, and the project spans decades of war, famine, and political intrigue.
Geek Love
The owners of a failing travelling carnival breed their own attractions by dosing themselves with drugs and radiation during pregnancy, and their albino hunchbacked daughter tells what became of the family.
The Four Books
In a re-education camp for intellectuals during the Great Leap Forward, the Child who runs it rewards production with paper stars, and then the famine comes.
Earthlings
As a girl, Natsuki believed a plush hedgehog from the planet Popinpobopia had given her magic powers, and her cousin Yuu believed he was an alien; as adults, unable to fit into the society she calls the Factory, they set out to escape it.
Everything That Rises Must Converge
O'Connor's final story collection, published posthumously, with nine stories of grace and violence in the Jim Crow South.
Matrix
Marie de France, seventeen and judged unfit for court, is sent to run a poor English abbey, and over the decades she turns it into a powerful, defiant community of women.