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Dunya Mikhail
Tablets

"A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth"-Dunya MikhailIn her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's…

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Mariella Mehr,
Nightmare of the Embryos

A collection of short fictional pieces by Mariella Mehr, the renowned Swiss-German Yenish writer, which are both transcendent and devastating

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Thomas Merton
The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

As wide a following as the late Thomas Merton had while he lived, ever since his tragic accidental death in Bangkok in 1968, there has been a steady upsurge of interest in both his life and writings. A pr…

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Henry Miller
Henry Miller on Writing

New Directions Paperbook - volume 151

Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using w…

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José Emilio Pacheco,
The Selected Poems of José Emilio Pacheco

A selection of the greatest poems by one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the twentieth century

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Marcel Proust,
Letters to His Neighbor

Marcel Proust's genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined …

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Raymond Queneau
The Flight of Icarus

Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau's work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. The Flight of Icarus …

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Eça de Queirós,
Adam and Eve in Paradise

Gloriously translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Adam and Eve in Paradise by Eça de Queirósis not the rosy prelapsarian tale of your childhood Bible: yellow-eyed Adam is a slope-browed Neanderthal all alone …

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C F Ramuz,
Into the Sun

It's been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town-both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date-when a "great message," telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an "acc…

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Olga Ravn,
The Wax Child

In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who has come to them in the for…

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Evelio Rosero,
House of Fury

Taking place entirely on a single evening-Friday 10 April 1970-in a large Bogotá mansion, House of Fury tells a hair-raising story. Nacho Caiciedo, a magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, lives with…

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Aharon Shabtai,
Requiem

Part kaddish, part lament, and a powerful call for stocktaking and peace, Requiem cries out for an end to carnage and slaughter: "The horror / the calamity / the disgrace, / the rubble of folly / and…

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Jean-Paul Sartre,
Nausea

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culmina…

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Maria Stepanova,
Holy Winter 20/21

The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor-the world had withdrawn from her, time had "gone numb.&q…

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Yoko Tawada,
Archipelago of the Sun

The Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to…

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Yoko Tawada,
Exophony

I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not "imitation" per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that …

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Thuân,
Elevator in Sài Gòn

A young Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Saigon for her estranged mother's funeral. Her brother had recently built a new house in Saigon, including what was rumored to be the first elevato…

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Yoko Tawada,
The Bridegroom Was a Dog

Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog i s a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The N…

lieferbar ab 4.11.2025.

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Rosemary Tonks
Businessmen as Lovers

Friends and lovers on a sun-soaked Italian vacation, filled with misanthropic cleverness, operatic drama, and arch silliness

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Rosemary Tonks
The Bloater

Why do the only men I know carry wet umbrellas and say "Umm?" I'm being starved alive. Quick: the first bookshop for a copy of the Kama-Sutra*.*Min works at the BBC as a sound engineer, and in t…

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