Lele, the narrator, is a young Latvian woman whose parents were victims of the war: her father shot by the Soviets as a member of the intelligentsia (he ran Riga’s water system), her mother dead of starvation, one of the thousands abandoned by their Nazi captors in the final weeks be...
and tensions are running high between the British government and the Irish Republican Army. A childhood incident radicalized Riseborough for life, but now she’s raising a son and has to think of his safety. Owen works hard to recruit her as an informer—instead of throwing her in prison—an...
New York's story is unique in its operatic grandeur, but the key elements that drove the city's spectacular rise, sad decline, and remarkable rebirth can be found in cities like Chicago and London and Milan, as well. In this book, we'll look closely at what makes cities our species...