This Week's Acquisitions
- Jose Saramago, Cain, trans. Margaret Jull Costa (Houghton Mifflin, 2011). Rewrite of the Cain narrative in much the same vein as Saramago's earlier The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. (Lift Bridge)
- T. Coraghessan Boyle, San Miguel (Viking, 2012). Historical novel about the struggles of two families on the same island, several years apart. (Barnes & Noble)