In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams. By the author of Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
In a novel set in both modern-day India and Europe, a young Brahmin intellectual finds himself caught between two cultures as he seeks to find his true identity.
Seven stories make up this collection by a writer the New Yorker called, in 1999, one of the 20 most promising young writers in America. The stories deal mostly with the lives of well-to-do but morally or emotionally unmoored young people. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.