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A Place for Us is the debut novel of Fatima Farheen Mirza, published in New York on June 12, 2018. [1] It is the first book published by Sarah Jessica Parker 's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The novel focuses on the varied experiences of an Indian-Muslim family living in Northern California, striving to find a balance between ...
4 3 2 1 is a 2017 novel by Paul Auster published by Henry Holt and Co. It describes four alternate versions of the life of Archie Ferguson in the 1950s and 1960s, and explores how an individual's life and personality is shaped by chance and circumstance.
Us is a 2014 novel by English author David Nicholls for whom it won the Specsavers "UK Author of the Year" award. [1] It was also long-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize . [ 2 ] The BBC screened a four-part TV adaptation of the novel, by Nicholls, in 2020, starring Tom Hollander , Saskia Reeves and Tom Taylor . [ 3 ]
Writing when the book was released, Kirkus Reviews said this was a "shakily plotted but otherwise terrific start for a new detective series". [6] The reviewer looked forward to the rest of the Alphabet Series, "fine dialogue, a great eye for people and places", if the author can tighten up her plots.
It was number 1 on the Publishers Weekly adult list and number 1 overall in the first six months of 2022, selling a total of 925,221 units. [14] It was also number 1 on the Publisher Weekly annual list, selling a total of 2,729,007 copies. [15] It was the best-selling novel of 2023 too, with a total of 1,292,733 copies. [16]
The story begins with the first-person account of Juan Preciado, who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will return to Comala to meet his father, Pedro Páramo. His narration is interspersed with fragments of third-person dialogue from the life of Pedro Páramo, who lived in a time when Comala was a robust, living town, instead of the ghost town Juan now sees.
A Summer Place is a 1958 novel by Sloan Wilson, and follows his 1955 bestseller The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.The novel is about an adult couple who rekindle a long-ago summer romance that ended because of class differences, and their two teenage children from other marriages who also fall in love with each other.
Changing Places (1975) is the first "campus novel" by British novelist David Lodge. The subtitle is "A Tale of Two Campuses", and thus a literary allusion to Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. It is the first novel in a trilogy, followed by Small World (1984) and Nice Work (1988), in which several of the same characters reappear.