![]() Wang’s sensibility is both cosmopolitan and lyrical, and his poetry has a subtlety and beauty that contrasts with the often physically painful imagery with which he depicts psychological reality.įiction by Halldor Laxness, translated by P. RoughtonĪ feminist coming of age tale, an elegy to the plight of the working class and the corrosive effects of social and economic inequality, and a poetic window into the arrival of modernity in a tiny industrial town, Salka Valka is a novel of epic proportions, living and breathing with its expansive cast of characters, filled with tenderness, humor, and remarkable pathos. ![]() Winner of the Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize, The Care of Strangers is the story of one woman’s discovery that sometimes interactions with strangers are the best way to find yourself. Working as an orderly in a gritty Brooklyn public hospital, Sima is often reminded by her superiors that she’s the least important person there. ![]() However, everything changes when Sima encounters Mindy Kahn, an intern doctor struggling through her residency.
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