- Location(s): Kamakura, Teshima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still...
The Library of Musical Instruments
- Location(s): South Korea
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): early 2000s
The second short-story collection by Kim Jung-hyuk, the author of Penguin News, features a total of eight short stories, including Syncopation D which won the 2nd Kim You-jeong Literary Award in 2008. They represent the many sounds sampled by...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 19th century
The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night. Faith’s father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings...
- Location(s): Austin, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): currentt
“A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood, family, and loyalty. I tore through it.”–Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace The bonds between three picture-perfect–but viciously protective–mothers and...