Tag: Knopf

  • A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman’s journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran—and her own, fraught cultural heritage.

  • From the indie rockstar of “Japanese Breakfast” fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.

  • A Long Way from Home, A novel Knopf 2018-02-27 336 pages 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 9780525520177 eBook ISBN: 9780525520184 Peter Carey The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take…

  • Michelle Obama: A Life Knopf 2015-04-07 432 pages 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-307-95882-2 Peter Slevin, Associate Professor of Journalism Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois An inspiring story, richly detailed and written with élan, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times…

  • An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa—a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people.

  • Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire Knopf 2013-01-22 384 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-27283-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-96115-0 Andrea Stuart In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the…