Contemporary

Narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport, he flees a maximum-security prison in Australia to escape to Mumbai.

Shed: a half-Indian bisexual boy who lives and works at the Indian Head Hotel in the tiny town of Excellent, Idaho. The hotel carries on a prosperous business as the town’s brothel.

When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.

A beautiful young woman vanishes, and a former detective quickly finds she was not whom she had claimed to be. Is she a victim, a killer, or both? In a country that tracks its citizens at every turn, how can two women claim the same identity and then disappear without a trace?

Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their captor, the father.

13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake’s parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman’s lover stands falsely accused.

Frank, an American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo’s sleazy nightlife. But Frank’s behaviour is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion.

Interesting is always a word that comes to mind. It’s a shame that in Less Than Zero, catatonic is another.