Farrar Straus And Giroux imprint: 2581 books
Red Cloud at Dawn
Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed First Lightning, exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. The startling event was not simply a technical experiment that confirmed the ability of the Soviet Union to build nuclear bombs during a period when the United States held a steadfast monopoly;...
Five Germanys I Have Known
A History & Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born...
The Novel of the Century
The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017
Les Misérables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean, its appeal has never waned, but only grown broader in its...
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
"From the bus stop across the street, it was hard to tell, but suddenly I understood, seeing the passengers in the van that picked her up every morning, that she was slightly retarded."
A precocious teenager in a French suburb finds himself powerfully, troublingly drawn to the girl...
The Vanquished
Why the First World War Failed to End
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Winner of the Tomlinson Book Prize
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I—conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century
For the Western Allies, November 11,...
The Antelope's Strategy
Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwanda—and on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killers
In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and horror...
Tasting the Sky
A Palestinian Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors.
"When a war ends it does not go away," my mother says."It hides inside us . . . Just forget!"
But I do not want to do what Mother says . . . I want to remember.
In...
The Unraveling
Pakistan in the Age of Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogue's gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups?
In this groundbreaking history of Pakistan's involvement with radical Islam,...
The Devil and Mr. Casement
One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South America's Heart of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
THE STORY OF AN IMPERIAL TRAGEDY THAT SENT SHOCKWAVES AROUND THE WORLD
In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human-rights abuses in the forests along the Putumayo River. Accusations...
River of Smoke
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011
The Ibis, loaded to its gunwales with a cargo of indentured servants, is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal; among the dozens flailing for survival are Neel, the pampered raja who has been convicted of embezzlement; Paulette, the French...
Breakfast with Lucian
The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
An insider's account—the first of its kind—of the thoroughly unconventional life of one of the twentieth century's most shockingly original painters
Lucian Freud's paintings are instantly recognizable: often shocking and disturbing, his portraits convey a profound yet compelling sense of...
by Ian Frazier
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains
In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation...
The Volcano Lover
A Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes...
The Girl on the Fridge
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad—such are the denizens of Etgar Keret's dark and fertile mind. The Girl on the Fridge contains the best of Keret's first collections, the ones that made him a household name in Israel and the major discovery of this last decade.