This week in fiction, Khaled Hosseini makes his long-awaited return with And the Mountains Echoed, his first novel since A Thousand Splendid Suns in 2007. There are also new debuts, including Patricio Pron’s My Fathers’ Ghost is Climbing in the Rain. Additionally, J.R.R. Tolkien’s never-before-published The Fall of Arthur is finally available, as edited by Christopher Tolkien. In mystery, Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole series continues with The Redeemer, its original sixth installment, and Alex Grecian follows up on last year’s The Yard with The Black Country, a return to Scotland Yard’s murder squad. Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg have teamed up for Pros and Cons, a new e-novella, and ABC’s ficticious Richard Castle launches the full Derrek Storm series with Storm Front. In nonfiction, brothers Deepake and Sanjiv Chopra explore their journey from India to America in the memoir Brotherhood. In young adult, Susane Colasanti and Jennifer Brown offer new contemporary fiction, and John Grisham’s Theodore Boone series returns with The Activist. New to paperback are B.A. Shapiro’s acclaimed novel The Art Forger, Bernhard Schlink’s collection of stories Summer Lies, Michelle Moran The Second Empress, Janet Evanovich’s Wicked Business, Claire Cook’s Wallflower in Bloom, and many more.
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In the late 16th century, a band of Portuguese Jews sought refuge in Turkey under the protection of Suleiman the Magnificent, the most celebrated Sultan in the Ottoman Empire. Among those escaping persecution were noble widow Doña Antonia Nissim, her daughter Reyna, and her nephew Jose. Faced with the truth of their Jewish heritage for the first time in their lives, Reyna and Jose connect with each other and find love and comfort in Turkey. Years later, their daughter Tamar falls in love with the Sultan’s son, Murat; the two vow to spend the rest of their lives together despite the oppositions of their families and the obstacles of classism and religion that stand in their way. They remain committed to their shared determination until the tensions escalade between their families and Tamar vanishes. Mad with devastation, Murat assumes his role in the Ottoman Empire and sparks what will become known as The Sultan’s Curse, a plague that affects his every descendant. Fast-forward to present-day Turkey and Selim Osman, a wildly successful real estate magnate and the grandson of the last Osman Sultan. In the prime of his life, Selim has the world at his feet until fate deals him a cruel blow: a shocking and life-altering diagnosis. Abandoning his life in Turkey, Selim turns to a Manhattan hospital in the hope of a cure; here he meets Hannah, a spirited young painter whose father is fighting a medical battle of his own. As Selim and Hannah start to understand the depth of their connection they’ll rejoin a love once lost and finally bring two fates together after decades of dormant solitude.
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