About The Tusk That Did the Damage Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Knopf (March 10, 2015) From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an […]
Ayelet Waldman, author of Love & Treasure, on tour June/July 2014
About Love & Treasure Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (April 1, 2014) A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train […]
April Smith, author of A Star for Mrs. Blake, on tour January/February 2014
About A Star for Mrs. Blake Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Knopf (January 14, 2014) The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally […]
Paulo Coelho, author of Manuscript Found in Accra, on tour April 2013
About Manuscript Found in Accra Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Knopf (April 2, 2013) The latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist. There is nothing wrong with anxiety? Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or […]
Sarah Bird, author of The Gap Year, on tour August, 2011
. About The Gap Year Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Knopf (July 5, 2011) From the widely praised author of The Yokota Officers Club and The Flamenco Academy, a novel as hilarious as it is heartbreaking about a single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learning how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest. […]