The Madonna of Notre Dame (26 page)

Y
EAR OF THE
C
OMET
BY
S
ERGEI
L
EBEDEV

F
ROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF
Oblivion
comes
Year of the Comet,
a story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse. Sergei Lebedev depicts a vast empire coming apart at the seams, transforming a very public moment into something tender and personal, and writes with shattering beauty and insight about childhood and the growing consciousness of a boy in the world.

http://newvesselpress.com/books/year-of-the-comet/

M
OVING THE
P
ALACE
BY
C
HARIF
M
AJDALANI

A
YOUNG
L
EBANESE ADVENTURER EXPLORES THE
wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. In this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who has dismantled a sumptuous palace and is transporting it across the continent on a camel caravan. This is a captivating modern-day Odyssey in the tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux.

http://newvesselpress.com/books/moving-the-palace/

A
DUA
BY
I
GIABA
S
CEGO

A
DUA, AN IMMIGRANT FROM SOMALIA TO
I
TALY,
has lived in Rome for nearly forty years. She came seeking freedom from a strict father and an oppressive regime, but her dreams of film stardom ended in shame. Now that the civil war in Somalia is over, her homeland calls her. She must decide whether to return and reclaim her inheritance, but also how to take charge of her own story and build a future.

http://newvesselpress.com/books/adua/

T
HE
6:41
TO
P
ARIS
BY
J
EAN
-P
HILIPPE
B
LONDEL

C
ÉCILE, A STYLISH 47-YEAR-OLD, HAS SPENT
the weekend visiting her parents outside Paris. By Monday morning, she’s exhausted. These trips back home are stressful and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it’s soon occupied by a man she recognizes as Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation 30 years ago. In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, Cécile and Philippe hurtle towards the French capital in a psychological thriller about the pain and promise of past romance.

http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-641-to-paris/

O
N THE
R
UN WITH
M
ARY
BY
J
ONATHAN
B
ARROW

S
HINING MOMENTS OF TENDER BEAUTY PUNC
tuate this story of a youth on the run after escaping from an elite English boarding school. At London’s Euston Station, the narrator meets a talking dachshund named Mary and together they’re off on escapades through posh Mayfair streets and jaunts in a Rolls-Royce. But the youth soon realizes that the seemingly sweet dog is a handful; an alcoholic, nymphomaniac, drug-addicted mess who can’t stay out of pubs or off the dance floor.
On the Run with Mary
mirrors the horrors and the joys of the terrible 20th century.

http://newvesselpress.com/books/on-the-run-with-mary/

O
BLIVION BY
S
ERGEI
L
EBEDEV

I
N ONE OF THE FIRST 21ST CENTURY
R
USSIAN
novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. Emerging from today’s Russia, where the ills of the past are being forcefully erased from public memory, this masterful novel represents an epic literary attempt to rescue history from the brink of oblivion.

http://newvesselpress.com/books/oblivion/

T
HE
L
AST
W
EYNFELDT
BY
M
ARTIN
S
UTER

A
DRIAN
W
EYNFELDT IS AN ART EXPERT IN AN
international auction house, a bachelor in his mid-fifties living in a grand Zurich apartment filled with costly paintings and antiques. Always correct and well-mannered, he’s given up on love until one night—entirely out of character for him—Weynfeldt decides to take home a ravishing but unaccountable young woman and gets embroiled in an art forgery scheme that threatens his buttoned up existence. This refined page-turner moves behind elegant bourgeois facades into darker recesses of the heart.

http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-last-weynfeldt/

T
HE
L
AST
S
UPPER
BY
K
LAUS
W
IVEL

A
LARMED BY THE OPPRESSION OF
7.5
MILLION
Christians in the Middle East, journalist Klaus Wivel traveled to Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and the Palestinian territories to learn about their fate. He found a minority under threat of death and humiliation, desperate in the face of rising Islamic extremism and without hope their situation will improve. An unsettling account of a severely beleaguered religious group living, so it seems, on borrowed time. Wivel asks, Why have we not done more to protect these people?

http://newvesselpress.com/books/the-last-supper/