Fiction from Diatrope Books

New York: Norton, 2021. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x9. Unmarked. Slight edge wear on dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. A groundbreaking literary novelist and MacArthur "genius" grant winner, this book was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction at NPR and many other venues. 278p. Measures 6.25x9.5… Read more about this item

Harcourt Brace, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Unmarked text. Previous owner's information on front end page. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. 536p. Measures 5.25x8 inches. The Name of the Rose is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327.

Soft Skull, 2023. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. 292p. Measures 6.25x9.25 inches. A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore?s interrogation of the possibilities of artistic striving, the limits of the middle-class mindset, the legacy of familial abandonment,… Read more about this item

Everyman's Library, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 5x1x8. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Sewn in ribbon marker with some fraying at the end. Introduction by Sarah Churchwell. 650p. Measures 5.25x8.25 inches. These two major novels--by one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century--are ferociously dark comedies that combine playfulness with profundity.… Read more about this item

Viking Press, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x9. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (clipped) under clear mylar cover. 249p. Measures 6.25x9.25 inches. Iris Murdoch's last novel. In this psychological drama, a mysterious, charismatic English butler derails the marriage of his master, a young aristocrat, and his fiancee, sending them both off on strange and dark paths.

Doubleday, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x9. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. First edition. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. 341p.

Eastwind Books of Berkeley, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 9x6x1. Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Shortlisted for the 2016 Saroyan Prize for Fiction. A retired Filipino farm worker looks back on his long and costly struggle for civil rights. 339p. Measures 6.25x9.25 inches.

Knopf, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8x6x0. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket with some chipping under clear mylar cover. Second printing before publication. Examines the uncertainty, fear, and rage of the generation of Jewish men and women who came of age following World War II. 370p. Measures 6x8.75 inches.

Harper Perennial, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. 20x20x20. Unmarked text. 334p. Measures 5.23x8 inches. Story of eighteenth century Korea brought into the twenty-first century with fascinating characters in both eras. Margaret Drabble (b. 1939) was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008 for her contributions to contemporary English literature.

Viking Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Clipped dust jacket under clear mylar cover. First American edition. Explores the forces of good and evil, and studies a religious man transferring his faith from one force to the other. 245p. Measures 6x8.75 inches.

Pantheon, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x9. Unmarked. Dust jacket (unmarked) under clear mylar cover. 282p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. Exquisitely written, this book offers two immigrants seeking to deal with the turns of their lives.

McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 9x6x1. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. 523p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. Margaret Atwood' s Booker Prize-winning sensation combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding tale.

Grove Press, 2023. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Unmarked text. 307p. Measures 5.75x8.75 inches.

Hogarth, 2022. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 5x0x8. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Chronicles Hong Kong's disintegration at the hands of the Chinese communists who were determined to reduce the city to a mere Chinese city. New York Times Book Review Editors? Choice. 231p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches.

Knopf, 2022. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x8. Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover with a crease down the front. A playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. John Banville (b. 1945) is a Man… Read more about this item

Seven Stories Press, 2019. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Unmarked text. A real historical figure, the British surgeon Dr. William Palmer was accused in 1856 of murdering fourteen people by means of poison. Graves's account of Palmer's life recasts the surgeon as a victim of yellow journalism and overzealous judges. Measures 5.5x8.25 inches. 351p.

St. Martin's Griffin, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Unmarked text. 211p Measures 5.5x8.25 inches. The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home… Read more about this item

Doubleday, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x9. Unmarked text. Previous owner's initials on page with list of books by John Grisham. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. First edition. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. 357p. Nine years after being sentenced to life in prison for the brutal rape and murder of a young mother, Danny Padgitt is paroled and… Read more about this item

Viking Press, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 5x0x9. Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize. In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two year old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate to his daughter, Lucy, who works with an ambitious… Read more about this item

Doubleday, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6x1x9. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. First edition. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. 357p. The plot centers around a last minute presidential pardon issued after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA.