Shaddai, a wise and loving man, builds a wonderful village for his children, but when one of them chooses to go out into the dangerous wilderness, Shaddai does not abandon him.

To the heros of "Beowulf, " the monster Grendel, devourer of men, represented chaos and death and pagan darkness. This is Grendel's side of the story.... Grendel perceives that what the primeval dragon has told him is true; he is the brute existent by which men learn to define themselves. "Grednel" may be read for what is says about the human condition, for its implicit comments on men's art, wars, fears, and hopes.

An unsparing portrait of speculation, violence and intrigue in the Faeroes under British wartime occupation.

"An explosive novel about the chaos of revolution, Glory centers around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional African country, and the drama that follows for an unruly nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup, in November 2017, of Robert Mugabe--Zimbabwe's president who took office in 1980 and...never left--Bulawayo's bold, vividly imagined novel shows a country imploding,...