Farrar Straus And Giroux imprint: 2581 books
Captain of the Sleepers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
For fifty years, Andres Yasin has carried a grudge against J.T. Bunker. Now, Bunker, eighty-two years old and dying of cancer, wants to tell his side of a story, a story of his affair with Andres's mother. As a child Andres knew Bunker as the "Captain of the Sleepers"-so called because he...
Nathaniel's Nutmeg
or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
A true tale of high adventure in the South Seas.
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and, these days, largely ignored.
Yet 370 years ago, Run's harvest of nutmeg (a pound of...
Samurai William
The Englishman Who Opened Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2003
An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg
In 1611, the merchants of London's East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named William...
Big Chief Elizabeth
The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza—a word that meant "big chief". The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought...
by Susan Sontag
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A brilliant, clear-eyed new consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects
Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured -or incited--to...
Beautiful Souls
The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save the lives of Croats. At the height of the Second...
A House Full of Daughters
A Memoir of Seven Generations
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women
All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation...
The Spot
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which three men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery.
The Spot is a park on the Hudson River, where two lovers sense their affair is about to come to an end.
The Spot is at the bottom of Niagara Falls, where the body of a young...
The Fixer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.
Set in Kiev...
Cancer Ward
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1991
Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of...
Johnny Mad Dog
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Life During Wartime, As Seen Through the Eyes of Two Congolese Teenagers
Set amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, Emmanuel Dongala's striking new novel tells the story of two teenagers growing up while rival ethnic groups fight for control of their country.
At age sixteen, Johnny...
My Life as a Traitor
An Iranian Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
At the age of twenty, an Iranian student named Zarah Ghahramani was swept off the streets of Tehran and taken to the notorious Evin prison, where criminals and political dissidents were held side by side in conditions of legendary brutality. Her crime, she asserts, was in wanting to slide back her...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of...
Encounters with the Archdruid
Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1977
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails,...