— IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 21 Titles found
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Maps for Lost Lovers
Written by Nadeem Aslam
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
Jugnu and his lover, Chanda, have disappeared. Though unmarried, they had been living together, embracing the contemporary mores of the English town where they lived but disgracing themselves in the eyes of their close-knit Pakistani community. Rumors about their disappearance abound, but five months go by before anything certain is known... Read more >
Written by Nadeem Aslam
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
Jugnu and his lover, Chanda, have disappeared. Though unmarried, they had been living together, embracing the contemporary mores of the English town where they lived but disgracing themselves in the eyes of their close-knit Pakistani community. Rumors about their disappearance abound, but five months go by before anything certain is known... Read more >
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Ghosts
Written by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 8, 1994
Price: $14.00
In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists writing in English today."—Boston Globe. Read more >
Written by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 8, 1994
Price: $14.00
In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists writing in English today."—Boston Globe. Read more >
Arthur & George
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous... Read more >
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous... Read more >
The Ash Garden
Written by Dennis Bock
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $13.00
Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton, a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project, that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his Austrian wife Sophie, a Jewish refugee, it marks the... Read more >
Written by Dennis Bock
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $13.00
Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton, a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project, that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his Austrian wife Sophie, a Jewish refugee, it marks the... Read more >
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Any Human Heart
Written by William Boyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $14.95
“A wonderful character—and a wonderful book. . . . Boyd persuades you that you’ve read the confidences of a real, flawed, marginal character battered by every malice and caprice of 20th-century history. ” —The Seattle Times
“A pleasure front to back, and a fond tip of the bowler hat to the upper-class... Read more >
Written by William Boyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $14.95
“A wonderful character—and a wonderful book. . . . Boyd persuades you that you’ve read the confidences of a real, flawed, marginal character battered by every malice and caprice of 20th-century history. ” —The Seattle Times
“A pleasure front to back, and a fond tip of the bowler hat to the upper-class... Read more >
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True History of the Kelly Gang
A Novel
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $14.95
Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize
Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also—at a distance of many thousand miles... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $14.95
Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize
Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also—at a distance of many thousand miles... Read more >
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The Closed Circle
Written by Jonathan Coe
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $14.00
The characters of The Rotters’ Club–Jonathan Coe’s beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s–have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium.
“Wonderfully witty and compulsively readable. . . . Often laugh-out-loud funny–but Coe has also fashioned a movingly... Read more >
Written by Jonathan Coe
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $14.00
The characters of The Rotters’ Club–Jonathan Coe’s beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s–have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium.
“Wonderfully witty and compulsively readable. . . . Often laugh-out-loud funny–but Coe has also fashioned a movingly... Read more >
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The Elementary Particles
Written by Michel Houellebecq
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $14.95
Winner of the 2002 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
An international bestseller and controversial literary phenonemon that drew immediate comparison to the novels of Beckett, Huxley and Camus, this is the story of two half-brothers abandoned by a mother who gave herself fully to the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno... Read more >
Written by Michel Houellebecq
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $14.95
Winner of the 2002 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
An international bestseller and controversial literary phenonemon that drew immediate comparison to the novels of Beckett, Huxley and Camus, this is the story of two half-brothers abandoned by a mother who gave herself fully to the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno... Read more >
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The Swallows of Kabul
Written by Yasmina Khadra
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $13.95
Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant teacher and is now no longer allowed... Read more >
Written by Yasmina Khadra
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $13.95
Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant teacher and is now no longer allowed... Read more >
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No Great Mischief
A Novel
Written by Alistair MacLeod
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2001
Price: $14.95
Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it.
Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Alistair MacLeod
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2001
Price: $14.95
Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it.
Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of... Read more >
Remembering Babylon
A Novel
Written by David Malouf
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 1994
Price: $15.00
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee
In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore... Read more >
A Novel
Written by David Malouf
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 1994
Price: $15.00
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee
In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore... Read more >
Don't Move
Written by Margaret Mazzantini
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $14.95
Called to the hospital when his fifteen-year-old daughter, Angela, is injured in a potentially fatal accident, a prominent surgeon sits and waits, silently confessing the affair he had the year Angela was born. As Timoteo’s tale begins, he’s driving to the beach house where his beautiful, accomplished wife, Elsa, is waiting... Read more >
Written by Margaret Mazzantini
Translated by John Cullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $14.95
Called to the hospital when his fifteen-year-old daughter, Angela, is injured in a potentially fatal accident, a prominent surgeon sits and waits, silently confessing the affair he had the year Angela was born. As Timoteo’s tale begins, he’s driving to the beach house where his beautiful, accomplished wife, Elsa, is waiting... Read more >
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No Country for Old Men
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
In this blistering novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.
One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by... Read more >
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
In this blistering novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.
One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by... Read more >
Enduring Love
A Novel
Written by Ian McEwan
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $15.00
On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident: a hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basket is being tossed by the wind, and in the attempt to save the child, a man... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Ian McEwan
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $15.00
On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident: a hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basket is being tossed by the wind, and in the attempt to save the child, a man... Read more >
By the Lake
Written by John McGahern
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $14.95
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a new novel that, with insight, humor, and deep sympathy, brings to vivid life the world and the people of a contemporary Irish village.
It is a village flirting with the more sophisticated trappings of... Read more >
Written by John McGahern
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $14.95
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a new novel that, with insight, humor, and deep sympathy, brings to vivid life the world and the people of a contemporary Irish village.
It is a village flirting with the more sophisticated trappings of... Read more >
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A Novel
Written by Haruki Murakami
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $16.00
Haruki Murakami has emerged as the most significant Japanese novelist in decades. And with this hugely ambitious book—a true magnum opus, equal in scope and execution to Mishima’s The Sea of Fertility—he will take his place in the international pantheon of contemporary literature. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is many things: the... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Haruki Murakami
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $16.00
Haruki Murakami has emerged as the most significant Japanese novelist in decades. And with this hugely ambitious book—a true magnum opus, equal in scope and execution to Mishima’s The Sea of Fertility—he will take his place in the international pantheon of contemporary literature. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is many things: the... Read more >
A Way in the World
A Novel
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1995
Price: $15.00
Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism. Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh who seeks El Dorado in the New World; the 19th century insurgent... Read more >
A Novel
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1995
Price: $15.00
Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism. Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh who seeks El Dorado in the New World; the 19th century insurgent... Read more >
The Puttermesser Papers
A Novel
Written by Cynthia Ozick
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $13.95
With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Cynthia Ozick
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $13.95
With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with... Read more >
My Name Is Red
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Translated by Erdag Goknar
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $15.95
From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel—part murder mystery, part love story—set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.
When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble... Read more >
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Translated by Erdag Goknar
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $15.95
From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel—part murder mystery, part love story—set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.
When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble... Read more >
Last Orders
Written by Graham Swift
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $15.00
Winner of the Booker Prize
Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into... Read more >
Written by Graham Swift
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 14, 1997
Price: $15.00
Winner of the Booker Prize
Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into... Read more >
Morvern Callar
Written by Alan Warner
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1997
Price: $12.95
Winner of the Somerset Maugham award. The story moves across a blurred European landscape, from rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the Scottish port to the Mediterranean rave scene. Read more >
Written by Alan Warner
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1997
Price: $12.95
Winner of the Somerset Maugham award. The story moves across a blurred European landscape, from rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the Scottish port to the Mediterranean rave scene. Read more >
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