The Hunters: Two Short Novels

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 181, [3, blank]. Chocolate brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; burgundy endpapers.

The author's third book – a duo of novellas about isolation. Shortlisted for the 2002 PEN/ Faulkner Award. A 2001 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In the title novella, a nameless/genderless American scholar on a summer sabbatical in London's Kilburn – 'on the far reaches of Maida Vale' – becomes obsessed with the neighbours downstairs. While in A Simple Tale, a Ukrainian cleaning woman's sight of her elderly client's blood-smeared walls brings back memories of the Nazis.

"The Hunters is a masterly exercise in craft – alarming, suspenseful and unexpected all at once." –Michiko Kakutani, New York Times / "A Simple Tale is exceptional, a work of near-miraculous perfection." –Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book Review