Print edition: 
“On Canaan’s Side” by Sebastian Barry (Viking, $25.95)
Told in the first person, “On Canaan’s Side” revisits Lilly Bere’s eventful past, going back
to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland for America at the end of WWI.
At once epic and 20th century and the heartbreaking story of a woman whose
capacity to love is enormous, and whose compassion, even for those who have
wronged her, is astonishing.
“Tolstoy: A Russian Life” by Rosamund Bartlett (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
$35)
At the time of Tolstoy’s death in November 1910, he was the most
famous man in Russia, with a growing international following and more
revered than the tsar. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy had spent
his life rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and
art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the
state. In this first biography of Tolstoy published in twenty years,
Bartlett presents an eloquent portrait of the brilliant, maddening, and
contrary man who has once again been discovered by a new generation of
readers.
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