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Josh Barkan
Books in Order: 3 titles
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Mexico: Stories
- Jan-2017
- / Suspense
The unforgettable characters in Josh Barkan’s astonishing and beautiful story collection -- chef, architect, nurse, high school teacher, painter, beauty queen, classical bass player, plastic surgeon, businessman, mime -- are simply trying to lead t...
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Before Hiroshima: The Confession of Murayama Kazuo and Other Stories
- Nov-2011
- / Literary
As death approaches, an old Japanese man finds it necessary to clean his soul, to confront the mistakes of his youth, and to confess about a time when he might have been able to save the thousands who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The title nov...
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Blind Speed
- May-2008
- / General Fiction
Finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize 2009!
Not since Don DeLillo and George Saunders has a writer caught the humor and irreverent seriousness of our time like Barkan has through his protagonist Paul Berger, a flawed hero whose so-called f...