Narrative theme: Love & relationships

Chosen by the Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Novels of 2005, Lily King's new novel is a story about an independent woman and her fifteen-year-old son, and the truth she has long concealed from him. Fifteen years ago Vida Avery...

A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical...

Her travelling poetrics are striking in the way that shedefies the borders of "narrative" and "lyric"; she combinesthe two seamlessly, an enviable gift.--Sacramento News & Review. Thesepoems move through love and death, sadness and euphoria, and...