Marcel Theroux is a British novelist whose works are characterized by a penetrating examination of the human condition and societal issues. His novels often delve into the complexities of identity and belonging, exploring what it means to be an outsider in the world and within oneself. Theroux's prose is noted for its precision and intellectual depth, offering readers a thought-provoking and memorable literary experience. His distinct voice establishes him as a significant contemporary author unafraid to confront difficult truths.
Growing up amid the starvation and oppression of 1990s North Korea, 10-year-old Cho Jun-su stumbles upon a mysterious game, left behind by a rare foreign visitor. As Jun-su painstakingly deciphers the rules of the game in secret, he unlocks an inner world that is at first an antidote and then a threat to the political cult that surrounds him.
A world on the brink of catastrophe. A two-thousand-year-old mystery. A lost gospel. A young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping in Tsarist Russia to make a new life among the bohemians and revolutionaries of nineteenth-century Paris. Beginning a treacherous journey through a world of spies and double-cross, propaganda, lost love, and anti-Semitism, he enters a modern world where lies have the power of truth. Based on real events, The Secret Books is at once a page-turning adventure and an examination of the stories that humans are willing to kill and to die for.
Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive.Yet nothing can make him change his story.From the secure unit of a notorious psychiatric hospital, he begins to tell his tale: an account of attempted forgery that draws the reader towards an extraordinary truth - a metaphysical conspiracy that lies on the other side of madness and death.Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human.
This National Book Award finalist and "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice is an enthralling, poetic adventure set in post-apocalyptic Siberia.
A major new novel of retribution and forgiveness from a prize-winning author.
After the violent death of her husband, 32-year-old Daisy faces the challenge of rebuilding her life. A chance meeting with her husband's killer ignites a journey fueled by obsessive hatred.
Damien March, a young BBC executive, finds he has inherited his mysterious Uncle Patrick's house in Cape Cod. Having a spiky relationship with his brother and father, he's keen to estabish why his uncle shoud have felt so close to him. His visit to the house turns up an unfinished manuscript.