Books like The Flamethrowers
A young motorcycle racer and artist moves to New York in 1975, falls for the heir to an Italian tyre empire, and follows him to Italy as the radical movements of 1977 erupt.
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Creation Lake
An American spy infiltrates an eco-commune in rural France, and her mission unravels as she's drawn into the group's ancient, unsettling philosophy.
Asymmetry
Two stories that seem unconnected, a young editor's affair with a much older, famous writer and an Iraqi-American economist held at Heathrow airport, turn out to speak to each other.
Jenny
In Rome, Jenny Winge, a twenty-eight-year-old Norwegian painter, accepts a proposal from a younger admirer she doesn't love, and back home in Kristiania his father comes into her life.
Speedboat
A young New York journalist narrates the 1970s in loose, dry, jumpy paragraphs about parties, assignments, and the peculiar etiquette of being alive in the city then.
The Moor's Last Sigh
The last of a Bombay spice-trading dynasty, a man ageing at twice the normal speed, tells the story of his family and of his mother, a great painter who put them all in her canvases.
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
In 1998 Raquel Toledo, a first-generation art history student at Yale from Brooklyn, comes across the work of Anita de Monte, a Cuban-born artist whose death in 1985 left her famous sculptor husband a widower and her own work forgotten.
The Charterhouse of Parma
Fabrice del Dongo, a young Italian nobleman, runs off to fight for Napoleon at Waterloo, then makes his way through the court intrigues of Parma, love affairs and a famous imprisonment.
Leviathan
After a man blows himself up beside a Wisconsin road, his novelist friend reconstructs how a gentle writer became a bomber of Statue of Liberty replicas.
Luster
Edie, a young Black woman in New York with a failing publishing job and a painting habit, starts seeing a white man in an open marriage and ends up living in his New Jersey house with his wife and their adopted daughter.
Mario and the Magician
On holiday at an Italian seaside resort in the late 1920s, a German family goes to the show of Cipolla, a hunchbacked hypnotist who bends his audience to his will.
Invisible Man
A nameless Black narrator, living underground in a hole lit by stolen electricity, tells how he went from a Southern college to Harlem and a political brotherhood, and came to see himself as invisible.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.