The Garden of Last Days

The stunning new literary thriller from the author of the bestselling House of Sand and Fog.

The best book I read this winter...This book is so good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it...Dubus casts a net of dread over the reader so strong that one sometimes longs to put it down, but finds himself unable... you want to grab someone and tell them to read it - don't wait for the movie, read it now.

'More than cements Dubus' status as one of America's finest writers... Tension and confusion are wrought from every spare yet evocative sentence.

'You cannot help but be mesmerised'

Explosive... profound...masterful...Difficult to put down, impossible to forget.

Andre Dubus III is the author of House of Sand and Fog, Bluesman and The Cage Keeper and Other Stories. He lives with his family north of Boston.

One early September night, at the moment before the world changes, a young woman brings her daughter to work. 
 
April's usual babysitter, Jean, has had a panic attack that's landed her in hospital. April doesn't really know anyone else, so decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she works. 
 
But April is a stripper at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his cash. His name is Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favourite stripper, and he's drunk and angry and lonely. 
 
From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, searing, passionate page-turning narrative, a big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood, honour and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth and realism that characterised Andre Dubus's bestselling House of Sand and Fog - and with an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart.

House Of Sand And Fog

‘Beautiful, gripping and highly intelligent’ – The Times

The finest novel of the year... Enormously affecting

One of the best American novels I've ever read... A stunning book... No one who reads this novel will ever forget it

Stunning and original... From the moment one starts to read their story, one has no choice but to stay with these characters until the end ... Beautiful, gripping and highly intelligent

A story of remarkable power and veracity and tenderness

Andre Dubus III is the author of Bluesman, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories and the bestselling House of Sand and Fog. He lives with his family north of Boston.

Kathy is a young recovering alcoholic recently seperated from her husband. When her family home is repossessed she is devastated. Her house is sold at auction to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer for whom it represents an entry into real estate and a passport to the future for his family and his own version of the American Dream. For Kathy, its loss is the last of a sereis of insults life has dealt her and the stage is set for a gut-wrenching tragedy.

Andre Dubus III

As strong, sweet and clear as the blues he writes about

Andre Dubus III has a keen and generous eye, and the great gift of bestowing dignity on his people

One of the best American novels I've ever read. A stunning book...No one who reads this novel will ever forget it

The finest novel of the year. Enormously affecting

A stunning and original new novel...Beautiful, gripping and highly intelligent

It is the summer of 1967 and, with one more year of high school to go, Leo Suther still has a lot to learn. He's in love with Allie Donovan, the beautiful girl who has turned his head ever since she moved to his small Massachusetts town. And he feels a real draw to the blues his father has taught him. Leo soon finds himself in the middle of a consuming love affair - and an intense testing of his political values by Allie's father, who challenges him on the escalating Vietnam conflict and forces him to examine just where he stands in relation to the people in his life. Throughout his - and the nation's - unforgettable 'summer of love', Leo is learning the language of the blues, which seem to echo the mourning he feels for his dead mother, his occasionally distant father, and the youth that is fast giving way to manhood.

Andre Dubus III

Praise for Bluesman

As strong, sweet and clear as the blues he writes about

Andre Dubus III has a keen and generous eye, and the great gift of bestowing dignity on his people

One of the best American novels I've ever read. A stunning book...No one who reads this novel will ever forget it

As strong, sweet and clear as the blues he writes about

Andre Dubus III has a keen and generous eye, and the great gift of bestowing dignity on his people

One of the best American novels I've ever read. A stunning book...No one who reads this novel will ever forget it

As strong, sweet and clear as the blues he writes about

Andre Dubus III has a keen and generous eye, and the great gift of bestowing dignity on his people

One of the best American novels I've ever read. A stunning book...No one who reads this novel will ever forget it

Books by Andre Dubus III

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