Saturday, September 06, 2014

Books Update from the NYT

'The Dog'

Joseph O'Neill's "The Dog" is about a lost and tormented New York lawyer working in Dubai for a family of Lebanese billionaires.
Ken Follett

Ken Follett: By the Book

The author of "The Pillars of the Earth" and, most recently, "Edge of Eternity" can't stand whimsical fantasy: "If there are no rules, and anything can happen, then where's the suspense? I hate elves."

'Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay'

The third novel in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series tracks a long and complicated friendship.

'The Human Age'

Diane Ackerman surveys the technology and innovations that define our human-dominated epoch.

'Perfidia'

Police officers and criminals are hard to tell apart in James Ellroy's novel of 1940s Los Angeles.

'10:04'

A Brooklyn-based narrator preoccupied with identity decides to help his best friend have a child.

'Rainey Royal'

Sex and cruelty are tools a 14-year-old uses to cope with a devastatingly irresponsible father in 1970s Greenwich Village.
Adolf Eichmann, second from right, with German officers cutting off a Jewish prisoner's sidelocks.

'Eichmann Before Jerusalem'

In his years in Argentina, Adolf Eichmann remained a convinced Nazi, proud of his wartime achievements.
Laila Lalami

'The Moor's Account'

A fictional memoir narrated by Estebanico, a Moroccan slave and the first black explorer of America.
William Giraldi

'Hold the Dark'

Grief and cold dominate this novel set in remote Alaska.
René Steinke

'Friendswood'

A small town falters after an industrial disaster.

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