The highly acclaimed new novel by the National Book Award winnng author of Tree of Smoke.

The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident takes the lives of his wife and child and has [...]

Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for Eyes of Peace?[...]

A surreal allegory that presents the vision of a possible American future. It is set in a post-apocalypse society where the inhabitants of Twicetown await the second comings of the gods Jesus, Quetzalcoatl and Bob Marley.[...]

"Tree of Smoke" is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.One of the "New York Times" 10 Best Books of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by "Time," "The Washington Post," "The Boston Globe," "Chicago"" Tribune," "San Francisco"" Chronicle," Amazon.com, "Salon," "Slate," The National Bo[...]

Denis Johnson's "The Laughing Monsters "is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game.
Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown[...]

Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond. Award-winning American novelist Denis Johnson travels between the extremes of human behaviour, traipsing across war-ravaged Liberia, witness to horrifying acts of torture before joining a Bikers for Jesus rally in Texas and meeting other Americans whose [...]

A "New York Times" Notable BookAn "Esquire" Best Book of 2011A "New Yorker" Favorite Book of 2011A "Los Angeles Times" Favorite Book of 2011 Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams" is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in t[...]

"In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear." Freetown, Sierra Leone. A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alone in its crowded streets, Captain Roland Nair has been given a single assignment. He must find Michael Adriko - maverick, w[...]

An epic in miniature: a gripping tale of a man's disintegration and his country's transformation, from the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke.[...]

Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century - an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats a[...]

?Denis Johnsons Novelle ist ein Meisterstück.? (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Der Tagelöhner Robert Grainier, 1886 im Norden Amerikas geboren, muss im Laufe seines langen Lebens mit ansehen, wie sich die Welt um ihn herum verändert: Die Technik hält Einzug in den Alltag der Menschen und fordert ihre [...]