LITERATURE & FICTION NEW TITLES IN FOR HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP

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1 NEW TITLES IN FOR HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES LITERATURE & FICTION 2016 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP

2 RAJIA HASSIB In the Language of Miracles A mesmerizing debut novel about an Egyptian American family pushed to the brink by tragedy and mental illness. A gripping...exposé about being Muslim in post-9/11 America.But it s also a universal, multi-generational, immigrant tale. The old-world, Egyptian grandmother s bungled English, her prayers and incense, rub against her American-born, tech-savvy grandchildren s bungled Arabic and Western music...[a] reminder that no matter our ethnicity or creed, we all long for acceptance. Marie Manilla, author of The Patron Saint of Ugly PENGUIN PAPERBACK 288 PAGES $16.00 CELESTE NG Everything I Never Told You When the 16-year-old daughter of a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio is found dead, the delicate balancing act that has kept the family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront long-held secrets. This moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home explores cultural divisions and familial rifts. A subtle meditation on gender, race and the weight of one generation s unfulfilled ambitions upon the shoulders and in the heads of the next. San Francisco Chronicle PENGUIN PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $16.00 PATRICIA PARK Re Jane Journeying from Queens to Brooklyn to Seoul, this contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre from Korean-American debut novelist Patricia Park explores the search for self-acceptance and love and the struggle to find a balance between two cultures. Park uses...jane Eyre as a template to examine very modern concepts: questions of identity and love, culture and conscience, even the hardships of immigration. The Miami Herald PENGUIN PAPERBACK 352 PAGES $16.00 HELEN OYEYEMI What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours A playful, ambitious collection of intertwined stories built around the idea of keys, both literal and metaphorical. These nine enchanting tales span time and landscapes, teasing boundaries between coexisting realities. Oyeyemi so expertly melds the everyday, the fantastic and the eternal, we have to ask if the line between real and unreal is murkier than we imagined or to what extent a line exists at all.transcendent. The New York Times Book Review RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 336 PAGES $27.00 ALSO AVAILABLE: BOY, SNOW, BIRD RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK 336 PAGES $16.00 MO YAN Frog TRANSLATED BY HOWARD GOLDBLATT The author of Red Sorghum and China s most revered and controversial novelist presents a history of modern China through the lens of the nation s contentious one-child policy. An expansive, fascinating cultural-political history [that] skillfully blends high farce with social commentary, domestic drama with deeper themes. Independent (UK) PENGUIN PAPERBACK 400 PAGES $17.00

3 MINSOO KANG, translator The Story of Hong Gildong INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY MINSOO KANG A new, definitive translation of the quintessential Korean classic: the Robin Hood story of a magical boy who joins a group of robber bandits and becomes a king. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 128 PAGES $15.00 JAMES JOYCE A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man DELUXE CENTENNIAL EDITION FOREWORD BY KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD NOTES BY SEAMUS DEANE COVER ILLUSTRATED BY ROMAN MURADOV The first, shortest, and most approachable of Joyce s novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. This deluxe centennial edition features an introduction by the author of My Struggle, which has been called a 21st-century Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 336 PAGES $17.00 JANE AUSTEN Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY CHRISTINE ALEXANDER This edition of Austen s early stories and sketches complete with her delightful, quirky spelling habits collects all her juvenilia, including Love and Freindship, History of England, and the novella Lady Susan. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 512 PAGES $16.00 GIAMBATTISTA BASILE The Tale of Tales TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY NANCY L. CANEPA FOREWORD BY JACK ZIPES ILLUSTRATIONS BY CARMELO LETTERE A fantastical cycle of fifteen fairy tales from the seventeenth-century Italian poet. With stories marked by vertiginous fantasy, spirited wit, and baroque excess, Basile redefined the fairy tale for European audiences. [Canepa s] splendid translation captures all the narrative energy and stylistic élan of The Tale of Tales and ensures that this collection will finally receive the attention it deserves. Maria Tatar, Harvard University PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 544 PAGES $20.00 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The Scarlet Letter ROBERT MILDER FOREWORD BY TOM PERROTTA NOTES BY THOMAS E. CONNOLLY An incisive and devastating human drama set in seventeenth-century Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter explores themes of community, ostracism, sin, guilt, and vengeance. In this edition, Milder provides a new bibliography and introduction that reflects contemporary trends in Hawthorne scholarship and embraces the novel s moral complexity. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 288 PAGES $8.00

4 LEWIS CARROLL Alice s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass 150TH-ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION CHARLIE LOVETT ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN TENNIEL The deluxe edition of Lewis s classic tale features an introduction by Charlie Lovett, author of First Impressions and The Bookman s Tale and former president of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. This edition also adds two Christmas prefaces that Carroll wrote for children and features iconic illustrations by John Tenniel. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 272 PAGES $16.00 HERMAN MELVILLE Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY PETER M. COVIELLO This edition of Melville s short stories has been updated with new commentary by American literature professor Coviello, whose introduction explores how Melville s stories cut to the heart of race, class, capitalism, and globalism in America, forging ties to contemporary political and social issues. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 368 PAGES $11.00 JOHN BALL In the Heat of the Night: The Original Virgil Tibbs Novel FOREWORD BY JOHN RIDLEY The 50th-anniversary edition of the pioneering novel featuring martial arts-trained police detective Virgil Tibbs the hero who paved the way for James Patterson s Alex Cross, George Pelecanos s Derek Strange, and other African American detectives. A landmark among expressions of racial justice that retains its power today.a resonant take on southern justice that has had more lasting impact than works many times its size. John Ridley, from the foreword PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 176 PAGES $15.00 KARAN MAHAJAN The Association of Small Bombs An exploded-view of a small bomb that goes off in a minor market in a corner of South Delhi. Like shrapnel, themes of suffering, dislocation, and redemption radiate from the blast, and none will be spared Mahajan s piercing gaze [as] he shows us how bystander, bomber, victim, and survivor will forever share a patch of scorched ground. Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master s Son VIKING HARDCOVER 288 PAGES $26.00 NAOMI JACKSON The Star Side of Bird Hill From Maryse Condé to Edwidge Danticat to Tiphanie Yanique, contemporary Caribbean writers have produced an exquisite literature of diaspora and affirmation.now Naomi Jackson joins their ranks with a serious yet effervescent debut that showcases three generations of women as they grapple with conflict and loss during the fateful summer of 1989.More than a coming-of-age novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill evokes the intractable forces that tear at families and cultures. Minneapolis Star-Tribune PENGUIN PAPERBACK 304 PAGES $16.00

5 SUE MONK KIDD The Invention of Wings Hetty Handful Grimké yearns for life beyond the walls of the wealthy Grimké household, where she works as an urban slave in early 19th-century Charleston. When the Grimké s daughter Sarah turns eleven, she is given ten-year-old Handful, whom she secretly teaches to read an act that has lasting consequences for both. Alternating between Sarah s and Handful s...perspectives on their...conjoined worlds allows Kidd to generate unstoppable narrative momentum as she explores the troubled terrain that lies between white and black women in a slaveholding society. The Washington Post PENGUIN PAPERBACK 384 PAGES $17.00 TRACY CHEVALIER At the Edge of the Orchard This riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier in the mid-nineteenth century takes us from the swamps of northwest Ohio to the heart of Gold Rush California. Excellently researched.brings to life a seminal chapter in American history.a compelling look at what was lost and gained in westward expansion. People PENGUIN PAPERBACK 304 PAGES $27.00 IVAN DOIG Last Bus to Wisdom Set in the early 1950s, a warmhearted coming-of-age tale about a young boy who embarks on open-road adventure on his way home to the Montana Rockies. The chimerical tale is moving, vivid, and funny.doig s adolescent narrator recalls his literary cousins, Scout Finch, Augie March, Huck Finn, Claudia MacTeer, as his openhearted curiosity provides readers a sense of unmediated engagement with an expanding world.last Bus to Wisdom takes us back 65 years to an era when the West was a little more rugged and the ethos of wide, open spaces allowed for mythical endings. Chicago Tribune RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER 464 PAGES $28.95 RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK 480 PAGES $16.00 AVAILABLE AUGUST 2016 PHIL KLAY Redeployment Klay a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who served in Iraq during the surge gives the civilian reader a visceral feeling for what it is like to be a soldier in a combat zone, and what it is like to return home, still reeling from the dislocations of war. Gritty, unsparing and fiercely observed, these stories leave us with a harrowing sense of the war in Iraq as it was experienced, day by day, by individual soldiers. The New York Times PENGUIN PAPERBACK 304 PAGES $16.00 National Book Award Winner RYAN NORTH Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure Packed with exciting choices, fun puzzles, secret surprises, and terrible puns, this chooseyour-own-path version of Romeo and Juliet lets readers decide where the story goes. Features over 100 endings, each of which showcases beautiful illustrations by acclaimed artists, including Kate Beaton, Noelle Stevenson, Randall Munroe, and Jon Klassen. Written with the finest distilled charm...entertaining. Kate Beaton, author of Hark! RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK 400 PAGES $20.00

6 PELICAN SHAKESPEARE SERIES The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in new covers for the 400th anniversary of the Bard s death. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare s time, an introduction to the play, and a detailed note on the text. Featuring arresting cover art, dependable texts, and illuminating essays, these editions incorporate decades of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series appeared between 1956 and General Editors: STEPHEN ORGEL, STANFORD UNIVERSITY and A. R. BRAUNMULLER, UCLA HAMLET STEPHEN ORGEL & A. R. BRAUNMULLER Penguin Classics 208 pp $8.00 KING LEAR STEPHEN ORGEL & A. R. BRAUNMULLER Penguin Classics 192 pp $8.00 MACBETH STEPHEN ORGEL Penguin Classics 144 pp $8.00 ROMEO AND JULIET PETER HOLLAND Penguin Classics 176 pp $7.00 FORTHCOMING SUMMER & FALL 2016 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT S DREAM RUSS McDONALD Penguin Classics 144 pp $8.00 Available June 2016 TWELFTH NIGHT JONATHAN CREWE Penguin Classics 144 pp $8.00 Available June 2016 JULIUS CAESAR EDITED BY WILLIAM MONTGOMERY DOUGLAS TREVOR Penguin Classics 160 pp $8.00 Available September 2016 OTHELLO EDITED BY STEPHEN ORGEL & RUSS McDONALD INTRODUCTION & NOTES BY RUSS McDONALD Penguin Classics 208 pp $8.00 Available September 2016 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW INTRODUCTION & NOTES BY STEPHEN ORGEL Penguin Classics 160 pp $9.00 Available September 2016 THE TEMPEST INTRODUCTION & NOTES BY PETER HOLLAND Penguin Classics 128 pp $8.00 Available November 2016

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