FICTION
EAST
Fourteen-year-old Job Hammon ekes out an itinerant existence in the Pacific Northwest, in a not-too-distant future where China and other industrial economies have become primary world powers, and the United States has become a fractured, post-industrial wasteland. When Job learns that the mother he’d thought had died years before had actually left to seek work in Asia, he emigrates there in hopes of finding her and finding a better life. Set to a backdrop of such issues as immigration, industrialization, and climate displacement, East offers a harrowing and all-too-possible glimpse at a post-American diaspora struggling to find a new place in the world.
from Grenzland Press
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THE DEPTHS
After trailing spouse Marah Lenaerts suffers her third miscarriage in as many years, her husband Eden surprises her with a vacation to Malaysia, hoping it will lift her spirits. And it does, as they enjoy trading the bustle of their Shanghai life behind for the idyllic tropical paradise. But while on a diving excursion, they’re taken hostage by a group of terrorists, who take them to a remote island and hold them there for ransom. The longer that time drags on, though, the more doubts Marah begins to have about their captors’ true motivations.
Nominated for the 2019 LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA LITERARY AWARDS
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LAND OF HIDDEN FIRES
Occupied Norway, 1943. After seeing an allied plane go down over the mountains, headstrong fifteen year-old Kari Dahlstrøm sets out to locate the wreck. She soon finds the cocky American pilot Lance Mahurin and offers to take him to Sweden, pretending she’s a member of the resistance. While her widower father Erling and the disillusioned Nazi Oberleutnant Conrad Moltke hunt them down, Kari begins to fall for Lance, dreaming of a life with him in America. Over the course of the harrowing journey, though, Kari learns hard truths about those around her as well as discovering unforeseen depths within herself.
from Grenzland Press
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TOMORROW CITY
After an armored car robbery goes wrong and leaves four people dead, ex-con Brendan Lavin flees New York City and attempts to start over in Shanghai. But twelve years later, after opening a bakery under an assumed name and starting a family with a local woman, his former colleagues show up and force Brendan to assist in another armed robbery. If he doesn't cooperate, they'll expose him and kill his family. Will Brendan help them pull it off and keep his new life intact? Or will his past bring him down, destroying everything else along with it? Tomorrow City is a riveting crime novel that explores the theme of reinvention in Shanghai, the city that's reinvented itself more than any other in the world over the past generation.
from Signal 8 Press
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NONFICTION
READING FILM:
LOST (AND FOUND) IN TRANSLATION
Magnus von Horn is a Łódź Film School graduate and lecturer, winner of the “Polityka” Passport, screenwriter and director of the award-winning film Sweat. Kirk Kjeldsen is also a lecturer at the Łódź Film School, an American screenwriter specializing in the adaptations of difficult literary works. They come together in Reading Film as authors of essays that bring closer and even reveal the secrets of their film-making art. Magnus von Horn chose Bruno Dumont’s powerful and controversial film, The Life of Jesus, as the subject of his essay. Kirk Kjeldsen focused on the film Gavagai, an adaptation of the poetry of the Norwegian literary classic, Tarjei Vesaas, directed by Rob Tregenza, which he worked on as co-screenwriter and producer. From a definitely non-accidental combination of these film personalities, this book has been created for the reader interested in experimentation, the non-obvious and artistic attempts to cross not only artistic boundaries.
from Wydawnictwo Szkoły Filmowej w Łodzi (The Publishing House of The Łódź Film School)