New Directions – all Bücher, Page 2

Mathias Énard,
Perfecting the Shot

In an unnamed city completely torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, controls his breath, stays serenely calm, and li…

available from 8.9.2026.

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Jenny Erpenbeck,
Things That Disappear

The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her novels including Visitation , Kairos , and Go, Went, Gone . Things that Disappear is an exciting col…

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F Scott Fitzgerald
On Booze

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Bo…

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Hanshan,
Cold Mountain Zen

The Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan ("cold mountain") and his friend Shide ("foundling") are among the most iconic figures in the history of Zen Buddhism. Variously described as Buddhists, m…

available from 7.7.2026.

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Ariana Harwicz,
Unfit

Lisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system's sluggish bureaucracy and her sinister, scheming in-laws, she's alone and lost, an Argentine migrant in rural France p…

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Marlen Haushofer,
Killing Stella

Main description: Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend's daughter, Stella, into their …

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Helle Helle,
Hafni Says

Hafni says: I don't want to be me. I want to change who I am. I don't know how to change who I am.Hafni has come to the end of her marriage. From a rest stop she phones the novel's narrator-a main charact…

available from 15.9.2026.

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Helle Helle,
They

Following a number of moves from one shabby rental to another, they -the mother and daughter of this elusive, strangely riveting novel set in 1980s Denmark-now reside in an apartment over the hairdresser …

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Hasib Hourani
Rock Flight

One more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest-Hasib HouraniHasib Hourani's rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a single personal and historical nar…

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Susan Howe
Penitential Cries

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/VOELKER AWARD FOR POETRYWhat labor to live forever. Speak of the elect what can you do in all this world so much life in the little of it.In four parts, Susan Howe's new book opens…

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Elfriede Jelinek,
Screeds

From the author of The Piano Teacher, this timely pair of scorching texts against idiocy, corruption, and political insanity fully display the adamantine, acerbic wit that won Jelinek the Nobel Prize in L…

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Wolfgang Koeppen,
Death in Rome

Death in Rome tells the story of four members of a German family-a former SS officer, a young man preparing for the priesthood, a composer and a government administrator-reunited by chance in the decaying…

available from 5.5.2026.

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Wolfgang Koeppen,
The Hothouse

The Hothouse traces the tragic final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of his country after the Second World War. Following his self-imp…

available from 5.5.2026.

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László Krasznahorkai,
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Havi…

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László Krasznahorkai,
Chasing Homer

In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed-careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies…

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László Krasznahorkai,
Enough about Angels: The Nobel Lecture

Addressed to a rapt audience in Stockholm two days before being awarded his Nobel Prize, László Krasznahorkai's moving lecture asks: "Human being-astonishing creature-who are you?" In a message …

available from 14.4.2026.

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Agota Kristof,
The Illiterate

Narrated in a series of stark, brief vignettes, The Illiterate is Ágota Kristóf's memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in fact…

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Eka Kurniawan,
The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks

Sato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village-until the day he must be circumcised, and his observant father forces him into a life of Islamic…

available from 7.4.2026.

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Enrique Lihn,
Celeste, Daughter of the Earth and Other Early Poems

Enrique Lihn is among the most important Chilean poets, alongside Nicanor Parra, since the generation of Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro, and Pablo Neruda. Lihn's first two poetry books represented her…

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Clarice Lispector,
Covert Joy

This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector's best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as "The Smallest Woman in the World,""Love," "Family Ties," and &qu…

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