Elizabeth Knox, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-374-11405-3
A woman's attempt to find her elusive and complicated father lies at the heart of this novel by New Zealand writer Knox. As fans of her previous book (The Vintner's Luck) are aware, Knox's lush, hyperinventive storytelling is anything...
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Elizabeth Knox, Author . Ballantine $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-45052-4
New Zealander Knox (The Vintner's Luck; Black Oxen) cleverly explores the many meanings of the word "kiss" in this haunting romantic mystery set in 1903. Billie Paxton, an uneducated but perspicacious young woman, thinks the worst is...
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Elizabeth Knox, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-45795-0
Saint or vampire? The identity of the Blessed Martine Raimondi, a French nun murdered by the Nazis in 1944 for her part in the daring cave escape of rebel partisans, is only one question answered in this illuminating tour-de-force set in the south...
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Elizabeth Knox, Author . FSG/Foster $19 (365p) ISBN 978-0-374-31853-6
Knox's (The Vintner's Luck
, for adults) debut for YA readers, the first in the Dreamhunter Duet, recalls Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's sci-fi masterpiece Roadside Picnic
. Both tell of a mysterious geographic region (here called "the
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Elizabeth Knox, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-28392-6
This imaginative story of the lifelong love between a man and an angel is the first of Knox's five books to appear outside her native New Zealand. In Burgundy one midsummer night in 1808, Sobran Jodeau, then 18, climbs to the ridge of his father's...
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Elizabeth Knox. FSG/Foster, $17.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-374-38829-4
Like a Sunday afternoon stroll, Knox’s story sets a meandering pace with an uncertain destination—a page-turner this is not. Given time and an eye for detail, however, Canny Mochrie’s summer odyssey unfolds from a dry depiction of school life in...
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Elizabeth Knox. Viking, $28 (656p) ISBN 978-0-593-29673-8
This sprawling and engrossing epic from Knox (Mortal Fire) opens with intimate tragedy and expands until the fates of several worlds hang in the balance. When Taryn Cornick’s sister, Beatrice, is killed, Taryn wants revenge, and over the 14 years...
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