Clandestine in Chile

Gabriel García Márquez

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books / Granta

In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one’s shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. At first glance, The Mezzanine appears to be a book about nothing. In reality, it is a brilliant celebration of things, simultaneously demonstrating the value of reflection and the importance of everyday human experiences.“Captures the spirit of American corporate life and invests it with a passion and sympathy that is entirely unexpected.” — The Seattle Times“A constant delight . . . among the year’s best.” — The Boston Globe“Baker writes with appealing charm . . . [He] clowns and shows off . . . rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Mezzanine

Literature & Fiction

NICHOLSON BAKER

Contemporary

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives us a stunning critical assessment of Pablo Picasso: At the height of his powers, Picasso was the artist as revolutionary: breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized—and wholly isolated.  Berger—one of this century’s most insightful cultural historians—trains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shaped his life and work. Writing with a novelist’s sensuous evocation of character and detail, and drawing on an erudition that embraces history, politics, and art, Berger follows Picasso from his childhood in Malaga to the Blue Period and Cubism, from the creation of Guernica to the painted etchings of his final years. He gives us the full measure of Picasso’s triumphs and unsparing reckoning of their cost—in exile, in loneliness, and in a desolation that drove him, in his last works, into an old man’s furious and desperate frenzy at the beauty of what he could no longer create.

The Success and Failure of Picasso (Granta Paperbacks)

John, Berger

Corker's Freedom

Explains how photographs are ambiguous, develops a theory of photography, and tells the story of a peasant woman's life in pictures

Another Way Of Telling

Arts & Photography

JOHN BERGER, JEAN MOHR

Individual Artists

A Painter of Our Time

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Budding Prospects

T.Coraghessan Boyle

The Soccer War (Granta Paperbacks)

History

Ryszard Kapuściński

World

Harp (Granta Paperbacks)

DUNNE, JOHN GREGORY

Monkfish Moon

Gunesekera, Romesh

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