The Elephanta SuiteA master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. This startling, far reaching book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark todays India. Therouxs Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinents well worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned up Boston lawyer finds

She claims she can hear her dead mother's voice whispering from the walls

and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered

her creatures live on

British-occupied Palestine

”—Claire Legrand

An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella

Ruth is keeping a deadly secret

The unmissable new thriller from Darren O’Sullivan

we need a new way of looking at the world that blurs the lines between scientific disciplines and the borders between the sciences and the arts and humanities

but as a dynamic web of relationships—from the patterns of creation to the crises of civilization

David Rock takes readers inside the heads—literally—of a modern two-career couple as they mentally process their workday

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