Chang and Eng: A Novel

Darin Strauss rescues the Siamese twins for whom the term was coined from the sideshow of history, drawing a beautiful first novel from their conjoined lives.

A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages
A.B. Yehoshua
$14.00 pb / HBS $11.20

Through the trials of Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant in the year 999, renowned author Yehoshua explores the deepest questions about the nature of morality, character, codes of human conduct, and matters of the heart.

A maimed Civil War veteran and a Creole prostitute seek help from a customs inspector named Herman Melville, himself condemned to live in the wake of his vanished literary success and the turmoil of his fractured family. "A marvelously dark-hued story by a master craftsman."--The New York Times Book Review

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
$14.00 pb / HBS $11.20

Combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's society. "An intense, vivid novel... It is tempting to say that The Red Tent is what the Bible would be like if it had been written by women, but only Diamant could have given it such sweep and grace."--The Boston Globe

A thrilling, Gothic tale of murder and retribution set on the wild seacoasts of medieval Japan.

Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War
Steven Pressfield
$24.95 / HBS $19.96

The author of The Gates of Fire returns with the story of Alcibiades, whose fate was inextricably intertwined with Athens' own. A full-bodied, flesh-and-blood retelling of one of history's pivotal conflicts.

The Vintner's Luck: A Novel
Elizabeth Knox
$13.00 pb / HBS $10.40

The vinter Sobran Jodeau stumbles upon Xas, a male angel sent to his 19th century vineyard in Bordeaux in order to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. "Xas is one of the best angels since William Blake's."--Nina Auerbach, The New York Times Book Review