Manhattan: Letters from PrehistoryManhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale Universitys Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no nonsense mother await her return. A young European intellectuals first

As she observes the processes of some of the authors who interest her the most

or the Black and Latino populations strategically criminalized for pot well before hippies were targeted and long after

and as he learns the extent of his new powers

with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times)

James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth

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and narrative prose

The book featurues an original introduction by Nobel Prize winner J

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle

The winner of the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

Fred Herzog is best known for his unusual use of color photography in the 1950s and 1960s