Based on events that took place in Oyo, Nigeria in 1946, Wole Soyinka's play intertwines the lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon Pilkings, the colonial district officer.
Hailed as Elizabeth Spencer s best novel (Michael Gorra, New York Review of Books), this lost masterpiece of mid-century America finally returns to print."
Cardenal, In Cuba. The Nicaraguan Poet-Priest muses over Cuba
A series of interconnected stories that paint a novelistic portrait of the fictional town of Rosarita Bay, California, and a diverse cast of complex and moving characters.
Alan Turing helped break the Nazis' Enigma code and became a champion of artificial intelligence. An openly gay man, he was sentenced to chemical castration and committed suicide. Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity--his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor.