Han Kang, trans. from the Korean by Deborah Smith. Random/Hogarth, $21 (192p) ISBN 978-0-553-44818-4
Reviewed by Gabe HabashYou may think you know where Han's English-language debut novel is going, but you have no idea. At first, its mundane strangeness may remind you
of the works of Haruki Murakami: Mr. Cheong, a Seoul businessman wakes up one...
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Deborah Smith, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-80094-5
The title of romance writer Smith's latest (after
On Bear Mountain) alludes to a pink marble hideaway on the family estate in Burnt Stand, N.C., where Darl Union grows up fabulously wealthy but lonely, the orphan granddaughter of Swan Hardigree...
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Deborah Smith, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-80650-3
An apple orchard provides the atmospheric background for Smith's (A Place to Call Home) ninth novel, but a farfetched romance reduces it to hijinks. Hush McGillen introduces her family's apple farming history in the mountains of Georgia,...
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Deborah Smith, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-316-80587-2
Smith's beguiling brand of Southern contemporary romance (Sweet Hush
, etc.) takes a satirical turn in her ninth novel. When Schwarzeneggeresque action star Stone Senterra arrives in Dahlonega, Ga., the only thing standing in the way of his...
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Deborah Smith, Author . Belle $16.95 (378p) ISBN 978-0-9768760-5-2
Two damaged people find love and redemption in bestseller Smith's latest, a heavy-on-the-syrup romance that drafts 9/11 into sentimental service. Cathy Deen is Hollywood's "it girl" until a paparazzi car chase ends in a car fire that
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Deborah Smith, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-553-29690-7
Artemas Colebrook is the stuff of myth: a proud, intelligent boy who vows to salvage his Southern family's name, which has been tarnished by his father's philandering and squandering of the Colebrook fortune. Though Artemas's quest is vaguely...
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Deborah Smith, Author Bantam $6.5 (528p) ISBN 978-0-553-29689-1
Samantha (Sam) Ryder and Jake Raincrow recognize when they meet as small children that their love will constantly have to fight to survive. Jake's mother, Sarah Raincrow, and Sam's aunt, wealthy and evil Alexandra Vanderveer Lomax, have been...
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Deborah Smith, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-10334-2
A gracefully written and absorbing tale of a stubborn young woman's maturation amid a self-involved Southern clan, Smith's (Silk and Stone) sixth novel is a page-turner. Claire Mahoney is the fiercely independent daughter of the most prominent...
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Deborah Smith, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-11143-9
Louisiana bohemian Venus Arinelli and Tennessee aristocrat Gib Cameron, the protagonists of this well-meaning but strained romance, come from very different, but equally tragic, backgrounds. Venus had her dreams of a career as a classical pianist...
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Deborah Smith, Author Little Brown and Company $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-80077-8
A hillbilly girl from Georgia and a rebellious Brooklyn boy find out the hard way that some family ties bind tighter than others in this highly readable novel by the author of A Place to Call Home. Ursula Powell lives in the shadow of the Iron Bear,
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Little did Brooklyn sculptor Richard Ricconi know when he created a strange and abstract bear out of scrap iron for the town of Tiberville, Ga., that his work would be so controversial or so important to others after he was gone. Destined to be torn
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