Meet Horace, a mighty odd fellow, the narrator of this charming, unexpectedly poignant first novel.

Monsó is known mainly for her humorous and poignant novels and for blending an absurdist wit with a profound tenderness for her very singular characters.

Michell explained that Persuasion attracted him because he believed it to be Austen's most emotional and poignant novel, as well as her most autobiographical.

(Ages 10 and up) A laconic and poignant novel, told mostly in dialogue, about Michael, who got a telephone in his room for his 12th birthday.

Last year our reviewer, Kiki Olson, called this a "hilariously poignant coming-of-age novel."

"A funny, knowing and poignant first novel" about a Buddhist baseball pitcher.

This poignant first novel, whose protagonist flees Kentucky for Montana to avoid a family feud, vividly evokes the moral complexity of the hill people, however alien their conclusions.

School Library Journal praised it as a "rich and poignant novel."

French literature gained one of its most poignant novels.

The Boston Globe called it "a powerful and poignant Albanian novel".