Trial Lincoln Award Nominee (2005) born in Depression-era Brooklyn to

born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick

Set in 2003 in the sweltering heat of Singapore

An entertaining and provocative investigation of friendship in all its variety

and life among celebrities

Trial Lincoln Award Nominee (2005) born in Depression-era Brooklyn toThe Trial tells the terrifying tale of Joseph K., a respectable functionary in a bank who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy, this hauntingly believable story stands out as one of the great novels of our times. Kafka's unsurpassed nightmare vision rings with chilling truth as it foreshadows the excesses of modern